To the editor:
I saw this posted online: “Nearly half of all South Dakotans are descended of Germans from UKRAINE” and it got me thinking, leading me to post the attached document for translation and learn what we thought was a passport was a draft card.
The other day when I told someone that my Great-Grampa Jacob Balliet was born in Ukraine and spoke Lakota I think I blew their mind.
What I didn’t k…