To finish off Thursday we all went to Leonard Little Fingers Cultural Center and heard him talk.  He told us a story about how his Great Grandfather had a scar on his leg and asked what it was.  Leonard as a very young boy found out what that scars was and how it all happened.  He found out the his Great Grandfather was  a survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre. You always hear stories from your grandparents, but I couldn't imagine if my granpa would tell me that story. 
 
Years later a museum contacted Leonard and told him that they had something that belonged to an ancestor of his.  Confused, he asked what it was.  They had a lock of his Great Grandfather's hair and they wanted to give it back to him.  After a large ceremony between the Lakota people, Leonard finally had his great grandfather back home.
 
Leonard had promised his Great Grandfather back in the day that he would continue the culture and someday build a center where children would learn all there is to know about the Lakota culture.  Sure enough that dream came true last year with much help from volunteers and many donations. The center is now completely built and the students will be starting this fall after finishing up a few touches this summer.  The amazing part of it, is that the elders will be the teachers at the center.  They are the ones who truly know what it means to be Lakota. 
 
As someone who has already been on this trip and heard Leonard speak I have taken something new from it each year , he talked about the center now I finally got to see his dream come true. 

Just shows if you want something to happen, and if you work at it hard enough it will come true.