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The Aktá Lakota Museum & Cultural Center is a private, non-profit educational and cultural outreach program of St. Joseph's Indian School, Chamberlain, South Dakota, United States. The museum was established in May 1991 to honor and preserve the Lakota culture for the students at St. Joseph’s Indian School and to foster among people who ...
The Crow Creek Indian Reservation (Dakota: Khąǧí wakpá okášpe, Lakota: Kȟaŋğí Wakpá Oyáŋke [1]), home to Crow Creek Sioux Tribe (Dakota: Khąǧí wakpá oyáte [2] or Hunkpáti Oyáte) is located in parts of Buffalo, Hughes, and Hyde counties on the east bank of the Missouri River in central South Dakota in the United States.
The attack on the Lakota Sioux was launched as a result of the Grattan Event of 1854 near Ft Laramie, Wyoming. In 1962, the site was protected as part of a 312-acre Nebraska state park . [ 7 ] Ash Hollow Cave was named as a National Historic Landmark in 1964, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
Annual arts and crafts festivals include the Brookings Summer Arts Festival and the Sidewalk Arts Festival in downtown Sioux Falls. [6] [7] In the annual Crazy Horse Volksmarch near Custer, nearly 15,000 hikers complete a 6.2 miles (10.0 km) hike that nears the top of the Crazy Horse Memorial. [8] Many counties and towns in the state hold ...
The college has programs in Lakota studies, [7] including the language and aesthetics. As of 2011, it is one of seven tribal colleges in the U.S. to offer a degree related to tribal administration. [8] The Great Plains Art Institute of the University offers AA and BA degrees in art and a BAAE degree in art education. [9]
This is an incomplete list of festivals in the United States with articles on Wikipedia, as well as lists of other festival lists, by geographic location. This list includes festivals of diverse types, among them regional festivals, commerce festivals, fairs, food festivals, arts festivals, religious festivals, folk festivals, and recurring festivals on holidays.
He frequently lectures at home and abroad and is a published author. In 1989 Amiotte wrote with a chapter about Sioux Arts in the important volume, Illustrated History of the Arts in South Dakota, published during the state's centennial. Amiotte, Arthur (1987). The Lakota Sun Dance - Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, in: Sioux Indian ...
Iron Nation signed the treaty to establish the Great Sioux Reservation in 1868. Michael Jandreau (1943–2015) helped lead the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe during difficult years of transition immediately prior to, and 40 continuous years after, the passage of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975. Jandreau was elected ...