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June 2006

In My Father's Footsteps

A Lakota builds an AA legacy for his children

When my father got sober in 1954 on the Standing Rock Reservation, there were no AA meetings and not many people spoke English. He and his only sober buddy, Bill, went to many Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota villages to start AA. If you were a non-Indian or didn't understand the language, it was pretty boring. My father and Bill translated the Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions into the Lakota language.

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