"In viewing death, our old Dakota people had a unique understanding and at the passing of a friend or relative might say this, when translated into English.
As I stand at the edge of the camp, I see him ride away and as he reaches the top of the rise, he stops, turns, looks back, waves, then slowly drops out of sight, and a voice at my side says,’ He is gone!’ Gone where? His loss is only in my sight, because at that very moment, a great shout of joy from old friends and relatives in the “Other Side Camp”, saying,’ Wanna he u wedo’, Here he comes!’ And that is dying!”
Mato Gi' Brown Bear, Ihanktonwan Dakota, Born January 11, 1915 – Passed to the Other Side Camp, March 29, 2004
