Dear Relatives,
This is a statement of my grandmother Ella Deloria, regarding history, which is well worth contemplating. 
“We can never be sure of what actually took place. And it doesn’t really matter, does it? All that which lies hidden in the remote past is interesting, to be sure, but not so important as the present and the future. The vital concern is not where a People or a person came from, physically, but where they are going, spiritually.” ~Ella Deloria, Ihanktonwan Dakota
Grandmother Ella was a student, along with Margaret Mead and others, of Dr. Franz Boaz, at Columbia University. Dr Boaz is called the “Father of Modern Anthropology”.
With Warm Love and Greetings,
Brother, Uncle and Grandfather Phil Lane Jr., Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations