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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]
Sage is often employed in Lakota ceremonies; [181] it is deemed sacred to wakʽą beings, [182] with the spirits enjoying its aroma. [183] As well as being used in prayer, it is burned for purification and tied into bundles given as offerings. [184] Those picking leaves will often request permission from the plant before doing so. [184]
[2] [3] In the March 2003 meeting it was agreed among the spiritual leaders and Bundle Keepers of the Lakota, Dakota, Nakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations that: I-ni-pi (Purification Ceremony): Those that run this sacred rite should be able to communicate with Tun-ca-s'i-la (our Sacred Grandfathers) in their Native Plains tongue.
She taught the Lakota seven sacred ceremonies to protect the Mother Earth and gave them the čhaŋnúŋpa, the sacred ceremonial pipe. The seven ceremonies are: Inípi (purification lodge) Haŋbléčheyapi (crying for vision) Wiwáŋyaŋg Wačhípi ; Huŋkalowaŋpi (making of relatives) Išnáthi Awíčhalowaŋpi (female puberty ceremony)
She taught the Lakota how to pray and honor the Earth through ceremony, and promised to return one day in the guise of a white bison calf with black eyes, nose and hooves.
Looking Horse is spiritual leader of the Lakota, Dakota and the Nakota Oyate in South Dakota and the 19th keeper of the sacred White Buffalo Calf Woman Pipe and Bundle.
In 1993, responding to what they believed was a frequent desecration of the Sun Dance and other Lakota sacred ceremonies, US and Canadian Lakota, Dakota and Nakota nations held "the Lakota Summit V". It was an international gathering of about 500 representatives from 40 different peoples and bands of the Lakota.
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 ...