9/17 - Janet Spindler, Pam, Belinowitz, Megan Carter, Rita Jolly, Dave Lone Elk, Jeanne Bonin and Priscilla Margola at the Badlands.
9/17 - A beautiful view of the Badlands.
9/17 - Edith Essex, Maryellen Alt and Anita Webber at the Badlands.
9/17 - Steve Carden touring the Journey Museum.
9/17- Carol Breckenridge wins an amazing star quilt.
9/17 - The group celebrates tour participant Jeff Parker's birthday.
9/17 - There's lots of hugs as the group and Running Strong staff say goodbye.
9/16 - The Tour group checks out the Ft. Robinson Museum in Crawford, NE.
9/16 - The whole Tour group at Ft. Robinson!
9/16 - An amazing view at the Wild Horse Sanctuary in Hot Springs, SD.
9/16 - Wild horses graze at the Wild Horse Sanctuary.
9/16 - Betty and Dave Carpenter at the petroglyphs at the Wild Horse Sanctuary.
9/16 - The Tour group checks out the petroglyphs.
9/16 - Mark Justman with Running Strong Field Coordinator, Tom Cook and Wild Horse Sanctuary guide, Monty.
9/16 - Dennis Limon shows the Tour Group the biodynamics processing for the garden at Running Strong's Slim Buttes Agriculture program.
9/16 - Bernard Red Cloud, Jr. and Jack Red Cloud show the group how to make quill bracelets at Slim Buttes.
9/16 - Joe American Horse addresses the Tour group at Slim Buttes.
9/16 - The Tour group enjoys a cookout at Slim Buttes complete with a campfire and smores!
9/16 - Joe American Horse smudges the group while an honoring song is sung for the group.
9/15 - Welcome to Pine Ridge!
9/15 - The group visits the Wounded Knee Memorial.
9/15 - The group checks out the newest Running Strong well site.
9/15 - Running Strong's newest program partner, Roots and Shoots, describes their garden program and provides a delicious lunch made with fresh vegetables from the garden.
9/15 - The new greenhouse at the Roots and Shoots program that Running Strong funded.
9/15 - Jeanne Bonin shops at the Roots and Shoots farmers market
6/15 - The tour groups passes a tipi while visiting a new community garden at the Lakota Waldorf School.
9/15 - Running Strong Field Coordinator, Dave Lone Elk, talks about the distribution program in Porcupine.
9/15 - Three time tour participant, Eva Collins, reads a thank you card from recipients of the distribution program.
Ken Lone Elk gives the group a special presentation on the Seven Lakota Values.
9/15 - The group gets a chance to shop for Running Strong souvenirs!
9/14 - A Buffalo grazing in the Black Hills.
9/14 - A Billy Mills display at the Crazy Horse Museum.
9/14 - Steve Lauri with Pat Mills' painting of Billy winning the gold medal.
9/14 - The group tours the Mammoth Site, an ongoing dig of approximately 60 mammoths, in Hot Springs.
9/14 - Janet Spindler and Pam Belinowitz hold up a mammoth bone!
9/14 - Priscilla Margola stands below a mammoth replica to show it's scale.
9/14 - Nancy Wachs checks out a textiles display at the Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron, NE.
9/14 - A guide at the Museum of the Fur Trade shows Rita Jolly some history on star quilts.
9/14 - The group tours the Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron, NE.
9/14 - Running Strong Field Coordinator and Tour Guide, Tom Cook, explains the history of the Chadron Native American Center in Chadron, NE
9/14 - The tour group enjoys dinner at the Chadron Native American Center which included homemade frybread.
9/14 - A scenic view of the Black Hills
9/13 - Romey Garreau honors Elton Hess with a surprise gift of a star quilt.
9/13 - Beautiful prairie land on the drive from Eagle Butte, SD to the Takini School in Faith, SD
9/13 - Anita Webber is welcomed to the Takini School.
9/13 - Prinicpal of the Takini School speaks to the Tour group.
9/13 Clay Collins gets a big hug from a Takini School kindergarten student.
9/13 - The Tour group learns more about Running Strong's Backpack Food Program while 6th grade students fill the backpacks.
9/13 - More beautiful countryside on the drive from Faith to Sturgis.
9/13 - Marlin and Fran Brusberg enjoy Mt. Rushmore.
9/12 - Steve Carden and Marilyn Everett boarding the bus!
9/12 - The Tour group ready to head out to Bear Butte.
9/12 - Dorothy Creinin with sacred site Bear Butte in the background.
9/12 - The Tour group gathers in a circle for a song and prayer at Bear Butte.
9/12 - Running Strong Field Coordinator, Dave Lone Elk, sings and drums in the circle.
9/12 - Joyce Richardson with her new Cheyenne River Youth Project sweatshirt purchased at the project's gift shop.
9/12 - Cheyenne River Youth Project staff and volunteers serve up a delicious lunch prepared with vegetables harvested from the project's Winyan Toka Win garden.
9/12 - The Tour group checks out the Cheyenne River Youth Project Winyan Toka Win garden.
9/12 - Elton Hess talks with Tom Cook and Ken Lone Elk at the Cheyenne River Youth Project.
9/12 - Cheyenne River Youth Project Youth Programs Director, Megan Guliano, gives the group a Tour of the Billy Mills Youth Center (The Main).
9/12 - Tour participants view the History Wall – a timeline that spans 500 years – in the Cheyenne River Youth Project Cokata Wiconi Teen Center.
9/11 - David and Betty Carpenter arrive for the Tour orientation and to hear Billy Mills speak.
9/11 - New friends Jeff Parker and Fran Brusberg.
9/11 - Maryellen Alt wears her commemorative Tour tshirt.
9/11 - Misty Tyon and her son Delaney, a future olympic hopeful, share the inspiration they've received from Billy Mills.
9/11 - Steve Carden enjoys Billy Mills inspiring story.
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