5 Quotes From Chief Red Cloud – Sioux
Look at me – I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches, but we want to train our children right. Riches will do us...
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Kicking Bear aka: Matȟó Wanáȟtake ( 1846? – 1904)
Kicking Bear, also known as Matȟó Wanáȟtaka, was a Lakota Sioux spiritual leader and a key figure in the Ghost Dance movement of 1890. He was born around 1846 near Pine Ridge, in what...
Moving Robe Woman, a Hunkpapa (Sitting Bull’s branch of the Sioux)
THERE WERE FEMALE WARRIORS TOO: Shown here is Moving Robe Woman, a Hunkpapa (Sitting Bull’s branch of the Sioux). INSP explains: Moving Robe Woman was no stranger to battle. At age 17, she took...
Running Antelope (1821-1896)
Running Antelope. Running Antelope, born in 1821 near the Grand River in present-day South Dakota, grew up immersed in the traditional customs and practices of his Sioux people. As a young man, he learned...
SIOUX KINSHIP, COMMUNITY, AND BELIEF SYSTEM
In the early days of the Sioux, tribes or oyate — the people — lived in tiyospaye or camp circles with large extended families united by a sense of kinship and community. An appointed...
The Legend of the White Horse Plain
An Assiniboin | Cree | Sioux Legend The Legend of the White Horse Plain by Margaret Arnett MacLeod Manitoba Pageant, January 1958, Volume 3, Number 2 This article was published originally in Manitoba Pageant...
Wakan Tanka is the Sioux name for the Great Spirit or Great Mystery
Wakan Tanka is the Sioux name for the Great Spirit or Great Mystery. It’s meaning is also known as “the divine” and “the sacred”. Wakan Tanka is the creator of the world or universe;...
Yanktonai Indians: A Historical Account of the Elder Tribe of Dakota
The Yanktonai Indians are one of the seven primary divisions or subtribes of the Dakota, speaking the same dialect as the Yankton tribe and believed to be the elder tribe. There is evidence suggesting...
