Testimony of Danny Dee (*****), Which he agreed to give me, in South Dakota, in June 2000.    

His Birth

Under the sign of anger, with the statement of wise of the clan.   

At the time when the mother of Danny was confined, in the hut where he lived, a violent blow of wind swept the neighbourhoods.  Then the lightning fell on a very large pine, for then digging deep distinct into the ground, to cross right through the foundation the hut, finally to engulf them in the well under the hut.  A smoking trace left by the lightning at the time of its passage in the hut, had projected with the floor the midwife who had just placed Danny on the centre of her mother.   

The wise one of the clan having been put at the current of the thing interpreted the uncommon phenomenon as being ill omen:  it was the sign of anger coming from the Great mind.  Danny the newborn baby should not have been born, According to any probability.  This business marked the mother at such point, which she was unable to nourish with the baby.  A woman of the Lakota clan was the nurse of Danny.  This woman Lakota had the capacity to come into contact with the spirits of the wind had made him hear the voice of the Large Warrior Sitting Bull, at the moment-even when Danny incipient in the hut crossed by the lightning.  

The voice had ordered to the Lakota woman to nourish the newborn baby.  Then, she should communicate to the child the messages, which would come on behalf of the elders.  As, the Lakota woman understood the Spirit of Large Sitting Bull would be the guardian of Danny.  Among the messages which was accepted from elders, the expressed anger of the Great spirit which disapproved the birth of Danny: this message which the Lakota Woman accepted at the time of her contact with the Spirits with Bear Butte specified that the birth of Danny thwarted a punishment inflicted by the Great spirit, with the ancestor of the family died in 1890 at the Battle of Wunderkind where 300 Lakota warriors had been killed by the U.S. Army.  At this time there the grandfather; of Danny had made a serious fault, which was to cost the life to several Lakota warriors.  The punishment for the fault in question was that the line of the Grandfather would die out with the following generation.   

But, since alive Danny in spite of the disapproval of the Great spirit and that he had thus thwarted the punishment inflicted to the Grandfather of the family, the spirits of the elders had held a great council at the time which it was agreed this:  If Danny succeeded in proving of its childhood of good raison to be in this world.  The anger of the Great-Spirit would calm down.  Moreover the line of the Grandfather would continue itself, and Danny would have a younger brother who would name Billy, which is born the following year.   

The Childhood of Danny

A combat where he was obliged to do better than the other children, to outdistance them continuously.  Thus very early in his existence, Danny was subjected to all species of tests from where he has always to come out victorious.  In all its tasks, hewas absolutely to exceed those, which meet daily.  Everywhere, for the play, for hunting, for the fight, always it was necessary that he prove its superiority.  Thus only, he would alleviate the anger of the Great-Spirit and would prove his value, while ensuring the existence of Billy his brother.  It is resulted from it that Danny with force to be constantly confronted with excellence, very early developed a sharp repulsion of the failure.  Therefore he during all his childhood was, of a very great rigour with himself and the others.     

His Adolescence

Be a prelude to of the ultimate test

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In the plays of combat with the boys of his age, Danny was dissociated quickly by his impassibility.  In all the plays of war, he had very quickly taken his distances compared to the others.  He expressed any disorder, no sensitivity, no emotion, no feeling, which predisposed he to make of him excellent a warrior.  Moreover, one of the messages to communicate to the Lakota woman in Bear Ridges, by the spirits of elders, said well that in a war to come, in a distance country, Danny following the ultimate test is the Warrior who would hold the first rank in the good graces of old fallen in Woundedknee.   As the message specified as according to the will of the Great Warrior Sitting Bull his guardian, Danny would receive the warlike name of  (******) after having undergone the ultimate test.    

His Transition enters adolescence

And life of Warrior

In an extreme violence, in fire and blood

For Danny, very thing had happened as the messages had predicted.  A war burst with the other end of the world:  The War of Vietnam. Danny, with much of others, was called to be useful under the flags.   He was the ultimate test of which he had been question in the messages.  His Billy brother also was enrolling.  With the war of Vietnam, all conceivable lightnings broke out against Danny, which to in no case could not be concealed with his kind.  Extreme violence made rage everywhere where was Danny and his comrades-in-arms.   But he was always better than all the others that ran alongside him, crossed the atrocious and horrible tests with a going beyond which struck stupor the other warriors, especially his brother Billy.  Thus in this bloody butchery in Vietnam, Danny surmounted the ultimate tests and as his guardian Sitting Bull wanted it. In the world of the Spirits, he becomes «****** »Warrior holding the first rank in the good graces of elders fallen in Wounded Knee.  He had finally the conviction to have succeeded in alleviating the anger of the Great-Spirit, for the first time of his life, he did not have more anything to prove, And anyone he did not have to outdistance the others constantly more.   

His Return to the Country

The beginning of an unbearable distress 

Danny, becomes «******* »should then have felt in peace at the bottom of himself.  He had triumphed!  But he was not the case.  In his being nothing inspired the peace, which he wished so much to find.  With the war he had seen falling so much from comrades-in-arms; in his heart, there was something of very heavy, which weighed.  He knew that many of his comrades-in-arms had fallen to the combat because he had not been concerned about them, too give that he was then to exceed them.  His impassibility, the fact that he always took his distances compared to the others which he had ever expressed no disorder, no emotion, no sensitivity, no feeling, he had drawn aside from any provision to be helpful towards his comrades-in-arms which were in danger, in the engagements.  His heart saying to him that if he had been sensitive instead of showing a sharp repulsion in front of the failures of his comrades-in-arms much would not have fallen on the battlefields from Vietnam.  He understood that never in all his existence, he had not testified to kindness, the tenderness of the love, and the regrets invaded him.  His conscience said to him:  " That nothing is used for to be that which holds the first rank in the good graces of the spirits of old and the great mind, if in your spirit with you, your heart, you do not have the love. "    

Here is which continuously haunted him since his return to the country; a deep distress invades any sound being and he became very unhappy, very bitter.  To try to escape this great pain « ******** »launched out then to body lost in the cause of the autochthones and their claims.  Boiling, burning with all his ardour, he was given thoroughly with the barricades set up through the continent at the time of the crises.  Because of his many frustrations accumulated throughout his life, he often arrived in the fire of the action which he carries damage to his nation, by engaging him in conflicts and illegal companies.  Making if laws and morals, he quickly became an Outlaw tracked by many police authorities: having regular contacts with allied criminal bands with group of traffickers, he sank in the problems due to alcohol and of cocaine.   All was more and more badly and he wished to finish some with this infernal life, with the great distress of his Billy brother.   Sometimes in the worst moments of his great suffering, he went on the tomb of sitting Bull, his guardian in the world of the spirits.  There on this tomb of the Great Warrior, he asked the assistance of the spirits of old.  he shouted his very great distress to them.   

He is at the time of these pilgrimages that the inspiration came to him of cutting in the wood of the objects expressing his sorrow.  This manual work became soon his principal occupation and it was for him the means of coming out of him after a certain time of the claws of the toxicomaine.  By the sculpture, he exorcise his suffering; Billy assisted him in this work.  It is still on the tomb of his guardian Sitting Bull that he meets his nurse, the Lakota woman, that he had lost sight of the fact since years.  To his entrusted his sorrows!    

Having begun again the contact with its nurse, he learned from her at this time there certain revelations, which she had received in Bear Butte on behalf of the spirit of Great Sitting Bull.  For example, the major trench dug in the ground by the lightning at the time of his birth; that represented a particular event which would divide the life of *****`. «Clearly »this event to come would be the line, which would separate into two his existence on a side distress, other joy.  Also, the lightning, which sliced with force the ground at the time of his birth, represented the very great force belonging to an Almighty spirit, which would appear one day to come.  As for the long way traversed by the lightning which was engulfed in the well after having crossed right through the foundation the hut, that represented the long course of a messenger to come, which would be sent at «******* »by the Almighty spirit.  This messenger to come would be carrying a news which would penetrate the heart of «****** », after having crossed right through the insuperable wall his austerity which was the base of his person.  This news to come would engulf straight in his heart, like the lightning had made in the well after having crossed the foundation.  

These revelations brought many hopes for «****.  »He blurred the achievement of these things revealed with his nurse, by the spirit of Great Sitting Bull, and that as soon as possible.  Finally, it happened that all that occurs.  The whole started in the middle of this year with the reception of a package coming from Quebec in Canada.   

The event, which sliced his life into two parts

The beginning of a new life 

A good morning of this year, «****** » accepted a package coming from Canada, in which a stick carved by an artist of Quebec was, named Claude Blanchard.  This sculptor of Canada had known to express all the distress of «****** »by the cutting in this splendid wood stick; however he did not know anything of the life of «*****. Also, with the stick, there was a prayer written for the veterans, as well as a specimen of the New-Testament, and a cassette whose music very alleviating was the work of another type of Quebec named John Cassidy, artist him too.  These things brought to  «***** »a quite great comfort.  Then it arrived at the ears of Billy his brother, that a veteran of Quebec had traversed a long road in order to transmit certain news to the two Dee brothers. 

According to information's transmitted to Billy by « sentinels », this veteran of Canada had made the long way to South-Dakota, especially to entrust something to his brother in distress.  When Billy last put this at the current of the business, he thought at once of the revelations made by his nurse some time before:   

·    The particular event which would divide his life clearly 

·    The long course of a messenger sent by the Almighty spirit,  carrying a news which would penetrate his heart.   

According to any probability, it was for him the time of the achievement of these things.  Thus, it was agreed of a meeting with the veteran of Quebec, in a fixed place by «****** », close to L O; you are here today in front of me, and the news that you bring to me penetrates to the bottom of my heart.  What arrives to me now produced in me a division between my life passed, and that of the present.  The joy replaces the distress of front at present.  Really a very great force was needed belonging has an Almighty spirit to produce in me this separation.  It is by this force comparable with the force of the lightning, about which that my nurse spoke to me; by this force in me this transformation takes place.  It is a new life, which starts, and I test much joy of it.   

I thank you and I thank all those from Quebec, which fill me gifts, which inspire the respect and the love.  I understand now that the very great force of God the Almighty is much higher than the forces of the evil, and that it only could come out me of my distress.  

End of the testimony of Danny