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The Bound Children is a Sioux legend highlighting the importance of proper behavior, not only among family members but within one's community. The widow, who does not properly care for her children, is punished, along with those...

Roman Nose (Woqini, "Hook Nose", l. c. 1830-1868) was a Northern Cheyenne warrior known for his courage in battle, who became so famous among white settlers and the US military that they believed he was chief of the...

Photograph of Sintegaleska (Spotted Tail), Sichangu Lakota Chief, wearing a scarf, jacket, and blanket. Original image photographed by C.M. Bell, 1880-1889. Photoprint cropped; printed by D.F. Barry at later date. Denver...

Self-torture in a Sioux Religious Ceremony, oil on canvas by George Catlin, 1835-1837. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Yankton Dakota Sioux writer and activist Zitkála-Šá (l. 1876-1938), photo by Joseph Turner Keiley in 1898. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

The Ghost Dance of the Oglala Sioux at Pine Ridge Agency, 1889-1890. Image by artist Frederic Remington, 1890.

Execution of the thirty-eight Sioux Indians at Mankato Minnesota, December 25, 1862. Print by Buffalo: Hayes Litho. Co., c. 1883. President Abraham Lincoln ordered the mass execution of 38 Native Americans...

Sioux warrior Rain-in-the-Face, photographed by Orlando Scott Goff in 1874 while incarcerated at Fort Abraham Lincoln in Dakota Territory.

Catlinite inlaid pipebowl with two faces of the Sisseton Sioux, early 19th century. Brooklyn Museum, Henry L. Batterman Fund and the Frank Sherman Benson Fund.

Funeral Scaffold of a Sioux Chief near Fort Pierre, aquatint on paper by Karl Bodmer, plate 11 from Volume 2 of Maximilian, Prince of Wied's Travels in the Interior of North America, 1844.