# @tonyrobbins on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZYYLiMEeSu
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66962116-tonyrobbins-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-06-09T21:52:37.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Daniel Fernandez (@DanielFdz64) — https://gondola.cc/DanielFdz64

## Caption

In July of 2024, I made the trip out to Marty, South Dakota — a small, rural community that most people have never heard of and yet holds within it one of the most painful chapters of American history. 
 
We visited the site of St. Paul’s Indian Mission School, where the nine Charbonneau sisters and countless others endured unimaginable abuse as young children, decades before they found the courage to take legal action and demand that the world finally bear witness to what had been done to them.
 
When the Charbonneaus and members of the Yankton Sioux Tribe honored me with a traditional star quilt ceremony — one of the highest honors their culture bestows, representing wisdom, knowledge, protection, and the sacred connection between earth and spirit — I felt the full weight of what it meant to be trusted with a story this deep and this painful.
 
I am so grateful for the hospitality of this community, and for the courage of these survivors in sharing their testimonials. This visit has stayed with me, it has moved me profoundly.  
 
Two weeks ago, we were at the sold-out world premiere of Nine Little Indians at Film at Lincoln Center — it was such an honor to stand alongside Director shannonkring and our incredible team of producers; to see sisters Gerri, Francine, and Pat; to meet Sarah and Jencie, daughters of the late Dr. Barbara Kay Charbonneau-Dahlen; and to be with Lakota ceremonialist Darrell Red Cloud and his wife Dawn as this family’s decades-long fight for acknowledgment, justice, and healing finally reached an audience that will carry it forward.
 
THIS is what it looks like when truth refuses to stay buried. These women endured. They rose. They demanded justice. And now the world gets to witness their strength.
 
We ask that you watch this film and share it widely. These voices deserve to be heard.

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Fernandez | @DanielFdz64 | https://gondola.cc/DanielFdz64 | Social Media Strategist |

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