Search
Search Results
Video
Finding Minnesota: Pipe Maker Keeps Sacred Tradition Alive
John Lauritsen reports on how a Minnesota pipe-maker is breathing life into a Native American tradition (3:34). WCCO 4 Weekends – April 22, 2018
Definition
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 who...
Article
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 other. Pipe rituals...
Article
Interview with Gordon Campbell
In this interview, World History Encyclopedia talks to author and scholar Gordon Campbell all about his new book Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth published by Oxford University Press. Kelly (WHE): Thanks for joining me today...
Article
Mondamin
Mondamin (also given as Mon-Daw-Min, The Gift of Corn, and The Origin of Corn) is a tale from the Ojibwe Nation on how the people received corn from the Great Spirit through the vision quest of the young man, Wunzh, and his acts of selflessness...
Image
Six Tuscan Poets by Vasari
The 1544 CE painting by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574 CE) known as the 'Portrait of Six Tuscan Poets'. The poets are (left to right): Cino da Pistoia, Giuttone d'Arezzo, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante Alighieri and Guido Cavalcanti. (Minneapolis...
Image
Portuguese Carrack
An illustration of a Portuguese carrack ship from a 16th-century map. (Digital Library, University of Minnesota)
Image
Teacher and Young Boys Posed for Photograph at American Indian Boarding School
Teacher and young boys posed for photograph at an unknown American Indian boarding school, c. 1900.
Minnesota Historical Society.
Image
Thanksgiving Day Play at a Native American Boarding School
Thanksgiving Day play at an unknown Native American boarding school, c. 1900.
Minnesota Historical Society.
Image
Victorian Christmas Card
A 19th century Christmas card. c. 1880.