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 […]
For the Sioux people, religion and spirituality was not a separate entity, but an integral part of their daily life. Their belief was that human beings and animals were created from the earth itself and the nature and humans were one. Their belief system can be thought of as spirituality integrated into the rhythm of day […]
Food was sacred for the Lakotan people and the due respect was given to the food they consumed. They had many ways to find food from the environment they lived. Women as well as men had defined roles in the process of obtaining food. The Lakota were dependant on the Bison as their primary food […]
Among the Sioux nations, naming traditions differed greatly but were usually based on nature, gender, descriptions of the features and appearance of the baby, and totem animals. They had different names for girls and boys. A baby’s name could change in his or her adulthood and an individual could have more than one name in […]
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 […]
The Lakota people consider the whole life as sacred. There are some values that they hold high and these are important for their ceremonies, beliefs, and teachings. Elders shared these values with the youngsters in their oral tradition and passed them to the subsequent generations. Wacantognaka or generosity is the first value taught which means […]
The United States is home to some 567 Native American tribes according to latest statistics from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Out of these, some are popular for their size, language, heritage and culture. Undoubtedly, Navajo is the largest and the most popular Indian tribe in the US with a population of around 340,000 […]
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. […]
Lakota people speak the Lakota Teton or the Teton Sioux language which falls under one of the world’s primary language families, the Siouan-Catawban. Languages in this family can be broadly divided into two classes, the Western Siouan (Siouan proper) and the Catawban languages. The Siouan Proper languages are further categorized into Missouri river languages, Mandan, […]