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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 who support...

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 Cheyenne nation. He was...

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 Public Library.

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

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.

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 in Minnesota for revolt against...

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

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

Eight Sioux in Front of Tipis on the Pine Ridge Reservation, photo taken by the Northwestern Photographic Company, circa 1891. Courtesy of the National Park Service, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana.

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.