The Sioux

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The Sioux

• Von Manuela Jessner Julia Frühbauer

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Index

• Who are the Sioux?
• Language
• Location
• History
• Chiefs
• The Legend of the dream catcher (Part 1)
• The Legend of the dream catcher (Part 2)

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Who are the Sioux?

• The word Sioux means Snakes or Little Snakes".
  The Sioux Nation is composed of the Lakota,
  Dakota and Nakota peoples. They are also known as
  the Great Sioux Nation. They speak different
  languages.

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Language

• There are three native Sioux dialects, Nakota,
  Dakota and Lakota.

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Location

• The Sioux can be found throughout the northern
  Plains, including north and south Dakota,
  northern Nebraska, eastern Wyoming, a part of
  Colarado and south eastern Montana.

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HistoryThe Wounded Knee Massacre

• On December 15, 1890, the great Hunkpapa leader
  Sitting Bull, who had opposed Custer at the
  Little Bighorn and who had toured for a time with
  Buffalo Bill and the Wild West show, was killed
  on the Standing Rock reservation. In a dream he
  had foreseen his death at the hands of his own
  people.
• Just two weeks later, on the morning of December
  29, 1890, on Wounded Knee Creek near the Pine
  Ridge agency, the Seventh Cavalry of the U.S.
  Army opened fire on an encampment of Big Foot's
  band of Minneconjou Sioux. When the shooting
  ended, Big Foot and most of his people were dead
  or dying. It has been estimated that nearly 300
  of the original 350 men, women, and children in
  the camp were slain. Twenty-five soldiers were
  killed and thirty-nine wounded,
• Sitting Bull is reported to have said, "I am the
  last Indian." In some sense he was right. During
  his lifetime the world of the Plains Indians had
  changed forever. The old roving life of the
  buffalo hunters was over. A terrible
  disintegration and demoralization had set in. If
  the death of Sitting Bull marked the end of an
  age, Wounded Knee marked the end of a culture.
• I did not know then how much was ended. When I
  look back now from the high hill of my old age, I
  can still see the butchered women and children
  lying heaped and scattered all along the crooked
  gulch as plain as when I saw them with eyes still
  young. And I can see that something else died
  there in the bloody mud, and was buried in the
  blizzard. A people's dream died there. It was a
  beautiful dream....
• Reported by Black Elk

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Chiefs

• Chief Red Cloud
• Cief Crazy Horse
• Chief Rain in the Face
• Chief Sitting Bull
• Gall
• Black Elk

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Red Cloud

• He managed the most successful war against the
  United States.

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Crazy Horse

• He was known as a very cruel fighter in the
  Indian fights.

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Rain in the Face

• He was a major leader in the Lakota wars of the
  1860s and 1870s.

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Sitting Bull

• He was a military leader and fighter.

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Gall
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Black Elk
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The Legend of the dream catcher (Part 1)

• Long ago when the world was young an old Lakota
  spiritual leader was on a high mountain and had a
  vision. In his vision Iktomi, the great trickster
  and teacher of wisdom appeared in the form of a
  spider. He spoke to him in a strange language and
  the leader could understand. As he spoke about
  the cycle of life, which begins with the
  childhood, continues with the adulthood and ends
  in old age, where the people again are as
  children.

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The Legend of the dream catcher (Part 2)

• He said that life also brings good and bad
  forces. If people follow the good forces they
  will follow the cycle. If they follow the bad
  forces they will go into the wrong direction.
  During his story he weaved a web on the dream
  catcher. But there was a hole in the middle of
  the web. He gave the web to the leader and told
  him to use this web for their aims and dreams.
  The web should catch the good visions and dreams
  and the bad one should go through the hole. The
  leader told the vision to his people and they
  built the dream catchers and believed in Iktomis
  vision.

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The End

• Bye Bye