Phil Two Eagle
Philimon Two Eagle is Executive Director of the Sicangu Lakota Treaty Council in Rosebud, South Dakota. Mr. Two Eagle was born and raised on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Central, South Dakota.
Mr. Two Eagle has served in the US Army from 1982 to 1986 and has been working for the Rosebud Sioux tribe in various capacities. He has been working on preserving the inherent rights and treaty rights of the Sicangu Lakota Oyate (Rosebud Sioux Tribe).
Mr. Two Eagle believes in preserving his Lakota language as he recognizes Language as the source of Inherent Sovereignty and a connection to the ancestors. Mr. Two Eagle works with the elders and Spiritual leaders, Traditional knowledge, treaty rights, Lakota language, Climate Crisis and the Environment with the Oceti Sakowin Oyate (the Seven Council Fires) of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota people to have the US Federal Government to honor the Fort Laramie treaties that they signed with the Lakota people. He believes the Tiwahe (the family unit) as the very first form of Lakota traditional government and that life teachings begins in the Tiwahe. The Tiwahe is the also the very first line of education for the children. Mr. Two Eagle wants the Oyate to return to Tiwahe and to begin the process of healing, his work lead’s him to build an indigenous economy together return to the circle.
