The Longest Walk 2008: The Rita Sisters Retreat

WELCOME TO THE LONGEST WALK 2008 WEBSITE

This site is several week in the making so I would like to welcome you & thank you for visiting. This is the personal chronicling of the Longest Walk 2008 Northern Route by Chris Wintercount Teves. It has been hard to find the time to get this blog up and going but I hope that you will enjoy it. Many photographes and stories will be added in the coming weeks going as far back as Pueblo, Colorado. Please also visit the Offical Longest Walk Website and Brenda Norrell's Blogspot site for more information on the walk.

History is very important to us all. History serves many purposes, from informing individual history, community history, national history, to global history. As progress is made, history lays a lesson plan people of the world can learn from.

History has been recorded in stone, paper scrolls, weaving and on animal hides. From ancient times to present day, man has recorded history as a way of immortalizing their way of life.

Lakota, Dakota & Nakota Nations, historians had a very important role. The historian was a very important person, with good character, and in good standing with the people. Because of the tremendous value our people set upon memories and preserving our history. That individual dared not stray from the truth.

The historian/teacher was honored next to the leader. The factual knowledge was recorded, painted on animal hides and because our Ancestors counted the years by the winters, our calendars were called, "Wintercounts."