Friends in Sioux Falls, SD 18 Oct 2001

McLaughlin, SD 1997

Last gathering with Baha'i friends in Mclaughlin before we moved to San Carlos, AZ in 1997. Riaz (Phil) is taking the photo and I am in the back. Kevin Locke, Denise Gilbert, Patricia Locke, (?), Honoretta Defender, Marge Edwards and in front, Jacinta and Quddus Defender



Nadena Agard (right) and Bronwyn Castillo (left) 1996 Bismarck ND

Nadema was living in Bismarck while she was working in Fort Yates for the Repatriation Program.

Vernon Longe, Bismarck, ND

Alma W. Richard

1995 Dan Seals in Pierre, SD

Bronwyn Castillo, Dan Seals, Marge Edwards

Velma Little Eagle

We werre visiting Velma yesterday. She told a story of how she and her husband became Baha'is. Her husband, Charles Little Eagle, was a "Priest" (her words) of the NAC Church. He found the Faith first. He told her that,"this is what we have been looking for." She also said that from that point on, he did not use peyote ever again.Charles became a Baha'i about June 1984, during the Amos Gibson Project., and Velma in November 1986.

 "Now is the time for obedience. In the words of the prayer, 'Instant, exact and complete obedience.' We must be like the great cypress trees standing outside the Shrine of Baha'u'llah. They bow and bend low before the breeze of God from whichever direction it may blow."      William Sears, "Pilgrimage to Haifa," 1954.