Season 6, Episode 11 - Elders' Circle Part I

Lydia Whirlwind Soldier writes in her poem “To Be an Elder,” “Nope … I am not ready to give up my immature ways, to spontaneously give. I am not ready to examine and prune my behaviors, to ask for those senior discounts, to set examples for those around or let those old patterns vanish.” Listen as she and Joseph Marshall III discuss what it is like to be a Lakota Elder.