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Thunder Butte, in South Dakota, has featured prominently in my family's history since 1913. Also known as "Wakinyan Paha" to the Lakota, its religious and cultural significance to the Lakota goes back much further in time, still. Rising from the dry, rolling prairie grasslands in Ziebach County, in northwestern South Dakota, the butte is located on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation.
From the top of the butte, you can see for miles in every direction. There are not many people here, although the land is alive with the memory of those who walked here before us. Taking in the quiet of the plains as they reach to the horizon, you can well imagine the way the world was before we were here, and what it may look like long after we have moved on.
--Mike Crowley

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January 12, 2007

All Dressed Up

Joe, Neal, Their Dad, Thomas, & Nephew Tommie (Click to Enlarge)

This photo shows brothers Joseph and Neal Crowley along with their father, Thomas, and their sister Cece's boy, Tommie, at the family home near Thunder Butte shortly before much of the family moved to California. This picture would have been taken in the late 1930s or perhaps 1940. Joe and Neal are all dressed up, perhaps for church. My guess is that the family (or some members of the family) was about to set out for church in Glad Valley.

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