Monday, 11/7: Carleton and I drove 11 hours to Flandreau, SD today.  Talked with 97 year old PCUSA Santee Sioux clergy, Sidney Byrd--Google him--very interesting.   Lots of history and stories about his people and the church.   He was part of an interracial delegation in the south with Martin Luther King, Jr. during the Civil Rights movement in the 60s. His great grandfather was from Minnesota, rounded up during the 1862 battle to protect land after which 400+ Native Americans were imprisoned and given death sentences.  His was sentence was commuted by Pres. Abraham Lincoln.  38 others were not commuted and were hung in what was the largest governmental execution--now known as the Dakota 38.  As the Dakota 38 walked to the gallows, they sang the "Dakota Hymn" (now in most denominational hymn books) as a song of praise, defiance, courage and victory .  A missionary, Frazier, paraphrased the 2-verse version that is in most hymn books.  Sid Byrd translated all 7 verses which is in the Dakota hymn book and the translation in the UCC hymn book.  The tune: Lacquiparle is the tune of "Victory's Cry" which is in the ICA songbook, the song that was associated with the Cannonball HDP.