Mendoza, of Rapid City, is one of 24 people from South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota and 23 Native nations who was granted ...

Although most Pine Ridge traditions ... The Oglala Lakota and other Sioux tribes have refused a monetary settlement for the U.S.’s illegal seizure of the Black Hills, their spiritual home.

In Lakota thought, winyan represents the concept of woman as the first spirit of creation and the ... female form to the ancient Yupik and Inupiaq traditions of ivory carving.

Like most, the myth of the Frontier is reductive; that is how myths must be if they are to be useful. We might all understand ...

The Ghost Dance was adopted by the Lakota in early 1890, and became central to their resistance movement. It was also used as ...

The Cheyenne River Youth Project is welcoming teens to its Cokata Wiconi (Center of Life) for fall internship programming.

The law legalized traditional spirituality and ceremonies in the ... His family has been charged with protecting the sacred Lakota traditions for 19 generations. He said the elders decided long ...

The Seventh Direction highlights a central Lakota belief that each being—human, animal, plant, or stone—had its own purpose to fulfill. The Lakota believe that everything has a spirit. In Locke’s ...

Their beliefs do not worship the butte itself ... The Great Mystery was the basis of Lakota spirituality. Healing ceremonies ...

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