Minnesota River Interviews -John Fritsche

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Water is a hard thing to control. We can try to control it with sand bags and doing everything else, but water will eventually go where it wants to go

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Video Text: "Water is a hard thing to control. We can try to control it with sand bags and doing everything else, but water will eventually go where it wants to go.  If it wants to go, it will go there.  It will either rain, or it will come up, one of the two.  It’s going to go where it wants to go.  I’m a believer in what the Dakota/Lakota used to have with the circle of life. It is part of their spiritual heritage, a part of their thinking.  The Dakota spiritual life is the circle of life. You start with something that’s a grain of dirt, you go through the entire circle of life and you will always come back to one grain of dirt.  It’s a continuous circle, what comes around goes around and it is very strong in their religion, and strong in mine.  That is the way that life is. If it comes around, it will go around.  If you don’t know what your history is going to do, how can you prevent having something happen 50 years from now?  If you don’t look back and study what you had, you have to learn your history to control your history and that’s part of life. The Dakota/Lakota people had that as part of their religion, and yes, it’s true, what comes around, goes around."


 

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