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Legend->Sioux: The White Buffalo Woman
Posted on Saturday, February 24 @ 10:39:04 PST (3255 reads)

One summer so long ago that nobody knows how long, the OcetiShakowin, the seven sacred council fires of the Lakota Oyate, the nation, came together and camped. The sun shone all the time, but there was no game and the people were starving. Every day they sent scouts to look for game, but the scouts found nothing.

Among the bands assembled were the Itazipcho, the WithoutBows, who had their own camp circle under their chief, Standing Hollow Horn. Early one morning the chief sent two of his young men to hunt for game. They went on foot, because at that time the Sioux didn't yet have horses. They searched everywhere but could find nothing. Seeing a high hill, they decided to climb it in order to look over the whole country. Halfway up, they saw something coming toward them from far off, but the figure was floating instead of walking. From this they knew that the person was waken, holy.

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Legend->Sioux: Tunkasila, Grandfather Rock
Posted on Tuesday, May 09 @ 14:59:15 PDT (3559 reads)

AUTHOR: Sioux Legend, Myth, Oral Story

This legend tells why we should respect rocks.

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Legend->Sioux: The End of the World according to Lakota legend
Posted on Thursday, November 25 @ 13:29:07 PST (6619 reads)

The End of the World.. KEYWORDS: sioux legend badlands legend Sunka Sapa legend native american legend end of the world legend lakota legend lahkota legend maka sica

AUTHOR: Lakota story told by Jenny Leading Cloud (White River, Rosebud reservation, SD) to Richard Erdoes in 1967

Somewhere at a place where the prairie and the Maka Sicha, the Badlands, meet, there is a hidden cave. Not for a long, long time has anyone been able to find it. Even now, with so many highways, cars and tourists, no one has discovered this cave. In it lives a woman so old that her face looks like a shriveled-up walnut. She is dressed in rawhide, the way people used to before the white man came. She has been sitting there for a thousand years or more, working on a blanket strip for her buffalo robe.

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Legend->Sioux: Legend of the Talking Feather
Posted on Monday, May 17 @ 22:09:20 PDT (10025 reads)

KEYWORDS: talking feather Sioux legend oral story Indian culture

AUTHOR: Sioux Legend

Many winters ago the people received a gift called the talking feather. I will share with you the story of how this came to pass.

Note: Some tribes use a decorated "talking stick" instead of a feather.

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Legend->Sioux: Unktomi and the arrowheads
Posted on Thursday, May 08 @ 00:22:18 PDT (4858 reads)

KEYWORDS: Sioux legend spider legend oral story Indian legend Indian story oral tradition myth

SOURCE: Sioux oral story

There were once upon a time two young men who were very great friends, and were constantly together. One was a very thoughtful young man, the other very impulsive, who never stopped to think before he committed an act.

One day these two friends were walking along, telling each other of their experiences in love making. They ascended a high hill, and on reaching the top, heard a ticking noise as if small stones or pebbles were being struck together.

Looking around they discovered a large spider sitting in the midst of a great many flint arrowheads.

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Legend->Sioux: The Legend of Devil's Tower
Posted on Wednesday, March 13 @ 02:55:03 PST (7236 reads)

Keywords: Rosebud Sioux legend sioux myth american indian legends native american myths bedtime story Lakota oral tradition sioux tribe oral story devils tower bear rock legend Indians devil Lame Deer kids pages Mato bear legend eagle legends

Source: As told by Lame Deer in Winner, Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation, South Dakota, 1969, and recorded by Richard Erdoes in"American Indian Myths & Legends" Selected and edited by Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz.

Out of the plains of Wyoming rises Devil's Tower. It is really a rock, visible for a hundred miles around, an immense cone of basalt which seems to touch the clouds.

Devil's Tower sticks out of the flat prairie as if someone had pushed it up from underground.

Of course, Devil's Tower is a white man's name. We have no devil in our beliefs and got along well all these many centuries without him. You people invented the devil and, as far as I am concerned, you can keep him.

But everybody these days knows that towering rock by this name, so Devil's Tower it is. No use telling you it's Indian name.

Most tribes call it Bear Rock. There is a reason for that--if you see it, you will notice on it's sheer sides many, many streaks and gashes running straight up and down, like scratches made by giant claws.

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Legend->Sioux: Lakota Star Legends
Posted on Tuesday, February 19 @ 13:51:52 PST (6698 reads)

Keywords: Lakota star knowledge Indian beliefs about the stars legends Sioux star legend Big Dipper Orion's Belt Seven Council Fires Fallen Star Lakota constellations winter sky mythology Devil's Tower Harney Peak magpie Greek's Betelgeuse Pleiades buffalo in the stars Black Hills legend Lakota astronomy

The Lakota constellations are visible in the winter sky, and they reflect Lakota mythology. A notable aspect of that mythology is that every event and object on earth has a correspondent in the sky.

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Legend->Sioux: Create your own reality
Posted on Saturday, February 09 @ 23:38:26 PST (3047 reads)

Keywords: Sioux legend sioux oral story legends aboriginal legend indigenous peoples stories moral lessons teaching story Lakota teachings

Source: Sioux legend

The Creator gathered all of creation and said, "I want to hide something from the humans until they are ready for it. It is the realization that they create their own reality."

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