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Lakota Sioux Creation Story
The Lakota Sioux, like other tribal nations, had many versions of a creation story but all involved Wakan Tanka (Great Mystery or Great Spirit), the supreme creative power in the universe, who made all things and so caused...
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Great Sioux War
The Great Sioux War (also given as the Black Hills War, 1876-1877) was a military conflict between the allied forces of the Lakota Sioux/Northern Cheyenne and the US government over the territory of the Black Hills and, more widely...
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Red Horse's Account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Red Horse (Tasunka Luta, l. c. 1822-1907) was a chief of the Miniconjou Lakota Sioux best known for his firsthand account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (25-26 June 1876) and his 42 ledger...
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Sioux
The Sioux are a native North American nation who inhabited the Great Plains region of, roughly, modern Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. They are one of the many nations referred to as Plains Indians...
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Seven Sacred Rites of the Lakota Sioux
The Seven Sacred Rites of the Lakota Sioux (Seven Sacred Rites of the Lakota Oyate) are the spiritual observances of the Native American Sioux nation that maintain their relationship with the Great Mystery/Great...
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Red Cloud
Red Cloud (Makhpiya-luta, l. 1822-1909) was an Oglala Lakota Sioux chief, statesman, and military strategist who became the only Native American leader of the Plains Indians to win a war against the United States. Red Cloud's War (1866-1868...
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Lakota Sioux Warrior One Bull
Lakota Sioux warrior and "sacred clown" One Bull (l. c. 1853-1947), brother of White Bull and nephew of Sitting Bull. Photograph by Dr. George P. Dix, Joshua Bradford Bailey, and John L. Mead, 1882. American Philosophical...
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Lakota Sioux Leader Sitting Bull, 1885
Lakota Sioux holy man and leader, Sitting Bull, in 1885.
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
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Lakota Sioux Warrior Rain-in-the-Face on Horseback
Lakota Sioux warrior Rain-in-the-Face (Ité Omáǧažu) on horseback, photograph by D. F. Barry, c. 1880-1890.
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Sioux Ceremonial Pipe
The Sioux ceremonial pipe is a sacred object of the Sioux nation used in the seven sacred rites as well as other observances to connect the people with the Great Spirit (Wakan Tanka), Mother Earth, the spirit world, and each...