Native American:Sioux Chief's Honoring Song

Sioux (pronounced SUE) are a Native American and First Nations people. The term can refer to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or any of the nation's many dialects. The Sioux comprise three major divisions based on dialect and subculture:

Isanti ("Knife," originating from the name of a lake in present-day Minnesota): residing in the extreme east of the Dakotas, Minnesota, and northern Iowa, and are often referred to as the Santee or Eastern Dakota.
Ihanktowan-Ihanktowana ("Village-at-the-end" and "little village-at-the-end"): residing in the Minnesota River area, they are considered to be the middle Sioux, and are often referred to as the Yankton or Western Dakota.
Teton or Tetonwan (uncertain, perhaps "Dwellers on the Prairie"): the westernmost Sioux, known for their hunting and warrior culture, and are often referred to as the Lakota.
Today, the Sioux maintain many separate tribal governments scattered across several reservations, communities, and reserves in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebraska, and also in Manitoba and southern Saskatchewan in Canada.

The name "Sioux" is an abbreviated form of Nadouessioux borrowed into French Canadian from Nadoüessioüak from the early Odawa exonym: naadowesiwag "Sioux". It was first used by Jean Nicolet in 1640. The Proto-Algonquian form *na·towe·wa, meaning "Northern Iroquoian", has reflexes in several daughter languages that refer to a small rattlesnake (massasauga, Sistrurus).This information was interpreted by some that the Ottawa borrowing was an insult. However, this Proto-Algonquian term most likely was ultimately derived from a form *-a·towe·, meaning simply "speak foreign language", which was later extended in meaning in some Algonquian languages to refer to the massasauga. Thus, contrary to many accounts, the old Odawa word naadowesiwag did not equate the Sioux with snakes. This is not confirmed though, since usage over the previous decades has led to this term having negative connotations to those tribes to which it refers. This would explain why many tribes have rejected this term when referring to themselves.

Some of the tribes have formally or informally adopted traditional names: the Rosebud Sioux Tribe is also known as the Sicangu Oyate, and the Oglala often use the name Oglala Lakota Oyate, rather than the English "Oglala Sioux Tribe" or OST

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• Honoring
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• bull
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• horse
• red
• cloud

[killy661]

hannahepi waste lakota no offence to white people but if u guys didnt come these traditons would still be going today....

[Copanina]

I am Sioux.  Thanks for the song....

[recklessJohnny200]

LAKOTA PRIDE!!!!



[naimkarakand]

a heart-stopping recording.

[AngelryppR]

Thank you ... 3384 / 9

[cassybear1100]

@killy661  i tought they were still going on D:

[BiGamer1070]

@killy661 they are at POWWOW'S but they'll be much bigger

[DYNODRUM]

"Excellent" Pictures shown ;Of the Great Chiefs, Warriors, and Shamans .This iz What was Taken from this Land. Wish they would have , Killed all of the, army and every Euro they helped to survive . This Land was founded, taken and stole from True Heritage. LOOK whats here now and where its Going.THESE ARE THE TRUE WARRIORS OF SPIRIT /STRENTGH the army never would have outfought them, if not for the modern guns and Cowardly ways.They killed "all " The Buffalo &,Horses for Life Left.U.S Greed.Amen

[scottdog87]

as native myself wish we could have still been hunting off the land and living on it like the old days sure sounds nice hiy hiy mooshumuk!

[wakinyanowapi]

@wiyakaziwicasa No its not . Its honoring Iron Cloud.

[brandon225]

@killy661 true*

[brandon225]

@killy661 trough that fellow native one