Jerry Dearly Comedian or Emcee? Hau, Anpetu ki le waste. Iyohila wounspe unkuwapelo. Wayawa ota ob wowasi ecunk’unpelo. Sutapi hemaciyapi. Oglala Lakota hemantanhan, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Pine Ridge, South Dakota. (Hello, this is a very good, gifted day. Every one of us chases educational opportunity. We teach, we learn with children. My name is Sutapi – Sharpshooter of the Lakota generation-to-generation naming tree. My European name is Jerry M. Dearly. I am of the Oglala band of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of the Oglala Lakota located in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. ) I was born in the Oglala Junior Community, 4 miles East on Highway 18 in the “suburb” of Oglala, South Dakota, or 15 miles from the Pine Ridge Agency. I am 15/16 Lakota, and 1/16 Wasicu, White-European American (not sure what “band” of White-European nation of people). I began working for Saint Paul Public Schools in 1987, as a teacher for the Multicultural Resource Center until June of 1990. I went back to classroom teaching with the Sisseton-Wahpeton Lake Traverse Indian Reservation. I came back to Saint Paul Public Schools in 1992, with the American Indian Education Program as the Secondary Cultural Teacher. I have been employed with the Saint Paul Public School District 625 for 12 years.  My area of expertise is teaching American Indian cultural studies to as many middle schools’and senior high schools’.  I teach a Lakota (Sioux) language class at Battle Creek Middle School and Harding Senior High daily. I graduate of the college of education of the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, graduating in May 1972. I attended the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota Graduate School of education for the summer of 1975. I have six children, 3 children being Navajo/Dine and Lakota, 3 children being Ojibwe/Anishinabe and Lakota. I am married, 6 grandchildren on both parts of my family, and other grandchildren from my two sisters (whom are also teachers) and their children. I stay at home in my spare time, and am also a powwow announcer, which takes me to numerous gatherings, celebrations, and powwows during weekends. I am also active in the Saint Paul American Indian community and other American Indian communities within the greater metropolitan area of the twin cities. I am serving on two boards, which are the Minnesota Indian Economic Development Fund, and the state of Minnesota Indian Education governing board (recent appointment, 2003). Wopila – I am here to serve you, the people that are concerned with the fellowship of educational pursuit within multicultural settings where education is first.