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Lakota: Encyclopedia - Lakota

The Lakota (IPA: [laˈkˣota]) (also Lakhota, Teton, Titonwon) are a Native American tribe. They form one of a group of seven tribes (the Great Sioux Nation) that speak Lakota, one of the three major varieties of the Sioux language. The Lakota are the westernmost of the three Sioux groups, occupying lands in both North and South Dakota. Lakota - History. The Lakota are closely related to the western Dakota of Minnesota. After ...

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Lakota: Encyclopedia II - Lakota - Ethnonyms The name Lakota comes from the Lakota autonym, lakhóta "feeling affection, friendly, united, allied". The early French literature does not distinguish a separate Teton division, instead lumping them into a "Sioux of the West" group with other Santee and Yankton bands. The names Teton and Tintowan comes from the Lakota name thíthųwą (the meaning of which is obscure). This term was used to refer to the Lakota by non-Lakota Sioux groups. Other derivations include: Ti ...

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Lakota: Encyclopedia - WI

WI can stand for: Wisconsin, a US state The Women's Institute, a group for British women See also Wi, a Lakota deity. Category: Lists of two-letter combinations ...

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Lakota: Encyclopedia - Black Hills War

The Black Hills War (also known as the Little Big Horn Campaign) was a series of conflicts between the Lakota Native American nation and the United States of America from 1876 until 1877 1. The Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) established the Great Sioux reservation, which included the Black Hills, claimed by the Lakota since their victory over the Cheyenne in 1776. Often considered "terra incognita," the presence of gold in the Black Hills was generally known, but no ...

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Lakota: Encyclopedia - Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse (Lakota: Tasunka witko, pronounced tashúnka uitko), (c. 1838 – September 5, 1877) was a respected member of the Oglala Sioux Native American tribe and is noted for his courage in battle. Crazy Horse was recognized among his own people as a visionary leader committed to preserving the traditions and values of the Lakota way of life and leading his people into a war against the take-over of their lands by the White Man. Crazy Horse - His Life. Crazy Horse's exact bir ...

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Lakota: Encyclopedia - Battle of the Little Bighorn

The Battle of the Little Bighorn — which is also called Custer's Last Stand and Custer Massacre and, in the parlance of the relevant Native Americans, the Battle of the Greasy Grass — was an armed engagement between a Lakota-Northern Cheyenne combined force and the 7th Cavalry of the United States Army. It occurred June 25–June 26, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in the eastern Montana Territory. The battle was the most famous incident in the Indian Wars and was a remarkable victory for the Lakota ...

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Lakota: Encyclopedia - Vision quest

A vision quest is a rite of passage in some Native American cultures. In traditional Lakota culture the Hanblecheyapi (vision quest, literally "crying for a vision") is one of seven main rites. Vision quest preparations involve a time of fasting, the guidance of a tribal Medicine Man and sometimes ingestion of natural entheogens; this quest is undertaken for the first time in the early teenage years. The quest itself is usually a journey alone into the wilderness seeking personal growth ...

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Vision quest - Other uses

Lakota: Encyclopedia - Wakan Tanka

In Lakota traditions, Wakan Tanka is the spirit of Inyan (Rock). It means "The Great Spirit" or "The Great Mystery", which resides in every thing, similar to many notions of God. Every creature and object has a wakan, such as wakan tanka kin, the wakan of the sun. Alternative: Wakan, Wakanda (Omaha Tribe), Oki (Iroquois) Other related archivesGod, Inyan, Iroquois, Lakota traditions, Marvel Comics, Oki, Wakanda (comics), sun

Lakota: Encyclopedia - Billy Mills

William "Billy" Mills (born June 30, 1938) is the only American ever to win a Olympic gold medal in the 10,000 m run which he did at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. That race has been called the greatest upset in Olympic history. Born in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, Billy Mills, a Native American (Oglala Lakota (Sioux)), was raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. He was orphaned at the age of 12. Mills took up running while attending the Haskell Institute, which is now known as Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. ...

Lakota: Encyclopedia - Black Elk

Black Elk (Hehaka Sapa) (c. December 1863 – August 17 or August 19, 1950 (sources differ)) was a famous Wichasha Wakan (Medicine Man or Holy Man) of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux). He participated at about the age of twelve in the Battle of Little Big Horn of 1876, and was wounded in the massacre that occurred at Wounded Knee in 1890. Black Elk married his first wife Katie War Bonnett in 1892. She became a Catholic, and all three of their children were baptized as Catholic. After her death in 1903 he too became baptized, ta ...

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Black Elk - Books

Lakota: Encyclopedia - Dakota

Dakota (borrowed from the autonym of the Sioux people) may refer to: A group of Amerindian tribes (see Sioux), or lands named after them: The related tribes in Minnesota known as the Santee or Dakota Oyate (Nation), including the Prairie Island (Mdewakanton and Wahpekute) Indian Community, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux (Dakota) Community, the Lower Sioux Mdewakanton Indian Community, and the Upper Sioux Dakota Indian Community. The meta-tribe that includes all Santee, Lakota and Yankton-Yanktonai people

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Lakota: Encyclopedia - Wi

In Lakota mythology, Wi is one of the most supreme gods. He is a solar deity, and is associated with the American Bison. He is the father of Whope. Anog Ite attempted to seduce Wi, but she had one of her two faces changed into an ugly visage as punishment. His brother was none other than Shamash the Sun and Justice God. Other related archivesAmerican Bison, Anog Ite, Lakota mythology, WI, Whope, solar deity

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Lakota: Encyclopedia - Wounded Knee Massacre

The Wounded Knee Massacre was the last major armed conflict between the Great Sioux Nation and the United States of America, and was later described as a "massacre" in a letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. [1] On December 29, 1890, the cavalry troops of the U.S. 7th Cavalry opened fire, also using four Hotchkiss guns (capable of firing two pound explosive shells, fifty times per minute), against a surrounded encampment of Minneconjou Lakota Sioux, while cavalry troops were disarming them. Since the very thorough disarmament ...

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Lakota: Encyclopedia - Cheyenne

The Cheyenne are a Native American nation of the Great Plains. The Cheyenne nation is composed of two united tribes, the Sotaeo'o [no definite translation] and the Tsitsistas, which translates to "Like Hearted People". The name Cheyenne itself derives from a Sioux word meaning 'Little Cree'. During the pre-reservation era, they were allied with the Arapaho and Lakota (Sioux). They are one of the best known of the Plains tribes. The Cheyenne nation comprised ten bands, spread all over the Great Plains, from souther ...

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Lakota: Encyclopedia - Whope

In Lakota mythology, Whope is a goddess of peace, the daughter of Wi and the Moon. She was the wife of the south wind. When she visited the Earth, she gave the Dakota Indians (Sioux) a pipe as a symbol of peace. Later, Whope became the White Buffalo Calf Woman. Alternative: Ptehehincalasanwin Other related archivesLakota mythology, Moon, Sioux, White Buffalo Calf Woman, Wi, goddess, peace

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Lakota: Encyclopedia - List of deities

This list of deities aims to give information about deities in the different religions, cultures and mythologies of the world. It is sorted alphabetically. There are also lists of deities by type; see the articles death deity, household deity, lunar deity, and solar deity. See also: List of fictional deities, List of people considered to be deities Related articles include Deva, Demigod, Divinity, God, God (male deity), Goddess, Mythology, Religion, Scripture. List of deities - Abenaki. Including: