* I never said anything about Chris’s speech sounding good or his ‘speed.’ I don’t where you getting this. I wished you would have checked with me on that quote before you published to your blog and submitted that letter.

* I already explained my position re: the Sesqui statement on genocide. I was glad to see it on their web site and I think it’s significant that it’s still there. But it falls far short of a public acknowledgment that Chris and others would like to see.

* As I said to you that day at Coldwater, it doesn’t matter to me right now whether there are one, two, or many Dakota creation stories. Everyone agrees about the importance/sacredness of the B’dote and Coldwater areas. That’s all that matters, so leave it at that.

* I asked you to explain your obsession with the creation stories and your explanation then didn’t really make sense to me. But your letter’s inclusion of your statement that you believe you’ve been given it as a goal from the Great Spirit *does* explain it. I think you’re very misguided and mistaken… and that continuing in this way really hurts your cause of getting the Rum River renamed.

Griff, when I quoted you in the letter to the Oyate, I did not the write in any of the quotes that you commented on Chris’ presentation style. I quoted you as saying “it’s his speed” to not tell the truth about the Sesquicentennial Commission. During the press conference at the Coldwater Springs site, Chris said: “The Sesquicentennial Commission does not what to admit genocide”. In response to this comment by Chris, I wrote in the letter to the Oyate that you said “it sounds good”. Or, in other words, it is not the truth, but it “sounds good”.

And in your blog, you wrote. “Last May, a statement was posted to the MN Sesquicentennial Commission web site (May is the American Indian Month in Minnesota) that reads in part: “Yet we remain either unaware of or unable to look at our own history and acknowledge the painful wounds of ethnocide and genocide right here in Minnesota. We have a very hard time acknowledging that the pain remains and that it has affected much of our history thru to the present day.” And then you wrote: “I’ve highlighted this quote and the entire statement on this blogsite because I think it’s a significant admission.”

In an Indian Country Today article, an article posted on your blog, there are the words: “Members of the Minnesota Sesquicentennial Commission recently acknowledged ethnocide and genocide against American Indians living in Minnesota during the state’s early history.”

In the blog, you also wrote: “I don’t know enough about Dakota creation stories to weigh in on that debate.” In my letter to the Oyate, my statement about Chris’ lie about the Sesquicentennial Commission “not wanting to admit gnocide” was associated with his lies that distort the Dakota’s history associated with their creation stories.

Griff, if you would have first learned enough about the Dakota creation stories to weigh on on the debate, you could have post a good blog about my letter to the Oyate.