mitakuye oyasin! >> group: mitakuye oyasin. in lakota culture, family encompasses all of a child's relatives by blood, marriage or adoption. every member of this "tiospaye", or "extended family" is a potential foster home. bernice spotted eagle is raising six of her great grandchildren and three grandchildren. >> i wake up praying with them, talking to them, getting them ready, clean them up, send them to school. i do all this by myself - that's what keeps me going. in the "tiospaye", grandparents have the same rights to raise children as parents. the oglala sioux tribe has been able to honor this tradition by taking over child welfare from the state. they created lowo, or lakota people caring for our children. it's the tribes' own child protection agency, and it empowers tribal courts in a unique way. >> lakota people, we've always lived crowded. you know you look at the teepee thing and so you can get four or five girls lying on the floor in the bedroom and as long as they were safe and as long as they were loved and as long