Mary Louise Defender Wilson of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in North Dakota, was one of four recent recipients of the Jennifer Easton Community Spirit Award, given by the First Peoples Fund to honor ...
FLASHER, N.D. - Mary Louise Defender Wilson has received many honors and awards in her 85 years. But the Dakotah and Hidatsa traditionalist and storyteller said she was surprised to learn she had ...
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