{"id":3349,"date":"2012-11-09T10:17:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T15:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2013-09-12T10:43:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T14:43:54","slug":"dakota-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/?p=3349","title":{"rendered":"Dakota 38"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dakota 38.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen it four times, and I\u2019m still speechless.\u00a0 It\u2019s been very healing for me.\u00a0 Jim Miller and the other older men showed me what \u201celders\u201d look\/feel like when they are men. I\u2019ve known some women that I would call elders, and I\u2019ve been wanting someone older and wiser to show me how to navigate my last years.\u00a0 (I\u2019m seventy, and slowing down.)\u00a0 Suddenly, here they are.\u00a0 Men rooted like trees, with dignity that\u2019s not put on like a costume, but supports them from inside like a steel pole.
\nIn the video it says that white people broke the Indians\u2019 connection to the earth.\u00a0 But that\u2019s not what I see.\u00a0 If it was broken, these Indians have repaired it.\u00a0 Jim Miller talks openly and matter-of-factly about his history: sexual abuse, PTSD from Vietnam, prison, alcoholism \u2014 he went through all that and it did not determine the person he became.\u00a0 It\u2019s possible that struggling against all that horror made him who he is, a man solidly grounded and filled with the power of love.\u00a0 (Though that never justifies what was done to him.)
\nI am so grateful to have Dakota 38 in my life.\u00a0 This is how it came to me.\u00a0 I\u2019m friends with Pancho Ramos Stierle<\/a> on facebook and he sent a link to an interview of the filmmaker. I was so impressed with what Silas Hagerty<\/a> said about the making of Dakota 38, that I went straight to the website<\/a> and ordered a copy.\u00a0 They are given out free, in fact you can even watch the whole thing on YouTube<\/a>, the whole process of making the film was a give-away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dakota 38.\u00a0 I\u2019ve seen it four times, and I\u2019m still speechless.\u00a0 It\u2019s been very healing for me.\u00a0 Jim Miller and the other older men showed me what \u201celders\u201d look\/feel like when they are men. I\u2019ve known some women that I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-healing","category-interesting-link","category-spirit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jennydeupree.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}