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The Hunkapi lowanpi (Hunka ritual) is an adoption ceremony in which new kinship relations are established with somebody, [287] sometimes allowing the integration of non-Lakota people into Lakota families. [288] Historically it has played an important role in keeping peace between communities. [235]
The inípi, or iníkaǧapi, ceremony (Lakota: i-, in regard to, + ni, life, + kaǧa, they make, -pi, makes the term plural or a noun, 'they revitalize themselves', in fast speech, inípi [1]), a type of sweat lodge, is a purification ceremony of the Lakota people. [2] It is one of the Seven Sacred Ceremonies of the Lakota people, which has been ...
The pipe ceremony is one of the Seven Sacred Rites of the Lakota people. [1] Lakota tradition has it that White Buffalo Calf Woman brought the chanunpa to the people, as one of the Seven Sacred Rites, to serve as a sacred bridge between this world and Wakan Tanka, the "Great Mystery". [1] [2] The chanunpa is one means of conveying prayers to ...
The calf will be known as Wakan Gli, or “Return Sacred” in Lakota, he announced. About 500 people — including representatives of the Colville Tribes in Washington, Lakota and Sioux in the ...
White Buffalo Calf Woman (Lakȟótiyapi: Ptesáŋwiŋ) or White Buffalo Maiden is a sacred woman of supernatural origin, central to the Lakota religion as the primary cultural prophet. Oral traditions relate that she brought the "Seven Sacred Rites" to the Lakota people.
The Sioux people refer to their whole nation of people (sometimes called the Great Sioux Nation) as the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (meaning ' Seven Council Fires '). Each fire symbolizes an oyate (people or nation). Today the seven nations that comprise the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ are: Thítȟuŋwaŋ (also known collectively as the Lakota or Teton)
Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli’s documentary “Lakota Nation vs. United States” chronicles the Lakota Indians’ enduring quest to reclaim South Dakota’s Black Hills, sacred land ...
Below is a list of commonly recognized figures who are part of Lakota mythology, a Native American tribe with current lands in North and South Dakota.The spiritual entities of Lakota mythology are categorized in several major categories, including major deities, wind spirits, personified concepts, and other beings.