History Of Native Americans Native Americans are the Pre-Columbian era people living within the United States. Popularly known as American Indian, aboriginal American or First Nation person, although the term often refers to only those group of people whose territories were in present-day Canada and the United States. There are around 500 recognised Native American […]
Dennis Banks was an activist, author and a teacher who belonged to the Native American Anishinaabe tribe. Born on the 12th of April 1937 in Minnesota, he was raised in the Leech Lake Reservation. He married at the age of 25 and had seven children with his first wife and 4 kids with his second […]
Tatanka as they were known in Lakota, the buffalo was a sacred and vital animal for the Lakota people. Their nomadic life was woven around the buffalo as they followed their migration in order to hunt. Hence, their lives were physically and spiritually interconnected with the buffalo’s. The Lakota considered buffalo as a gift from […]
For the Lakotas, their Chiefs, Holy men, Warriors, and the Medicine men were the leaders and greats. Throughout the history, there were many notable Lakota greats who fought for the freedom and rights of their people and hugely contributed to the progress and betterment of the tribe and the great Sioux nation as a whole. […]
The Sun Dance is one of the most important religious ceremonies of the North American Indian nations practiced mainly by the Arapaho, Arikara, Asbinboine, Cheyenne, Crow, Gros, Ventre, Hidutsa, Sioux, Plains Cree, Plains Ojibway, Sarasi, Omaha, Ponca, Ute, Shoshone, Kiowa, and Blackfoot tribes. Each nation or tribe has distinct features differentiating each dance but they […]