After this excitement on Friday …
SRST Chairman Dave Archambault and President Barack Obama, June 13, 2014
… more visitors from Washington, DC arrived on Saturday …
L-R: Jan Ullrich, Sunshine Carlow, William Mendoza, Ron Lessard, Wil Meya, Kim Campbell
… to talk about Native American language preservation.
Roundtable on Native American language preservation, June 14, 2014, Sitting Bull College, Fort Yates ND, Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
Dignitaries meeting at Sitting Bull College included US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, William Mendoza (Executive Director of the White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education ), Sedelta Oosahwee (Associate Director of WHIAIANE) and Ron Lessard (Chief of Staff at WHIAIANE).
US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell
William Mendoza
Ron Lessard
Sedelta Oosahwee
Welcoming them were Sitting Bull President Dr. Laurel Vermillion, Sitting Bull’s VP of Academics Koreen Ressler, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairman Dave Archambault, SRST Education Manager Sunshine Carlow, joined by LLC Staff Wil Meya, Jan Ullrich and Kim Campbell, as well as many Lakota Native speakers and teachers.
L-R: Dr. Laurel Vermillion, Sec. Jewell, VP Academics Koreen Ressler
Ron Lessard and Dr. Vermillion
L-R: Sec. Jewell, SRST Chairman Dave Archambault, elder speaker Ben Black Bear, Jr.
