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My late mother, with her land holdings, said please don't sell any of my land, any money that comes off it because of the leasing process, whether it's farmland or grazing lands. I want those to be put in an account where my grandchildren can use those to further their education. So that's what we are doing now, putting together some type of family corporation. We've talked about it now, and we're going to start having family meetings and putting that together for her grandchildren so they can continue on with their education. So yes, it is part of our culture, I see that collectively, and we've been calling it the white man's education, Skawee Chasha Kawa'umspe, because that's what it is, respectfully, very respectful, as I said, my late father earned his college degree to be an elementary teacher, because that in itself, when we say Skawee Chasha Kawa'umspe, white man's education, it's part of the American dream, and as our late father told us, you know, speak the language, speak it in the best way that you can. So we understand that, we're doing our best, and also now with the prophecy I mentioned, that speaks to the Lakota dream, so do we live in two worlds, yes, yes we do.