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The Mythology Sioux brings together the Native American peoples of the Sioux Confederacy: Lakota, Nakota, Dakota, Assiniboin
The name "Sioux" is used to indicate a specific group of tribes, culturally and linguistically very close: Lakotas, Nakotas and Dakotas, names which all mean "allies". The Sioux call each other " Oceti sakowin oyate "," The People of the Seven Fires "or" the Council of the Seven Fires ", in reference to their seven original political divisions.
The Dakotas or Isantis, anglicized to Santee (traditional territory in Minnesota) include:
- Sisseton
- Wahpetons
- Wahpekutes
- Mdewakantons (“They inhabit the sacred lake”). Spirit Lake tribe (Devil's Lake Reserve - North Dakota), Shakopee-Mdewankanton Reserve (Minnesota) and Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe (Flandreau Reserve - South Dakota);
The Nakota or Ihanktuns (“village at the end”) or Yankton in English (national territory in the Dakotas) include (or included):
- Yanktons "Iyanktonwan" ("They live at the end")
- Yanktonnais "Iyanktonwanna" ("The little Yankton")
The Lakota or Titunwans (“prairie people”) or Tetons in English (traditional Dakota/Wyoming territory) was originally one of the seven council fires, but later split into xviiie century, after their emigration to the great plains, in seven groups:
- Hunkpapas (“They camp at the entrance”). Their greatest chefs are Sitting Bull and Gall.
- Oglalas ("They scatter"). They included Chiefs Red Cloud and Crazy Horse and the Medicine Man Black Elk.
- Sicangu (“Burned thighs” or “burned”). Chief Spotted Tail was one of them.
- Minneconjous "Mnikwojupi" ("They are planting by the water"). Chief Big Foot is infamous because it was his gang that was slaughtered in the Wounded Knee massacre.
- Itazipacolas ("Sans-Arcs").
- Oohenunpas ("Twice boiled" or "Two cauldrons"), Two Kettles in English.
- Sihasapa, ("Blackfoot"), called Blackfoot Sioux in English, not to be confused with the Algonquin people of the Blackfoot).
The Assiniboins were originally part of the Hunkpatina-Yanktonnais, but later broke away from their original people to move to the Canadian regions of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, where they kept their Nakota idiom and entered a state of permanent war with all the rest of the old Sioux confederation, rightly earning the name of Hohes (rebels); they can be classified as follows:
- Assiniboine;
- Stoneys.
Sioux mythology (texts)
- A Bashful Courtship
- A Little Brave And The Medicine Woman
- Black corn
- Brave Woman Counts Blow
- Chief Roman Nose Loses His Medicine
- Dance In A Buffalo Skull
- Dreamcatcher
- How People Learned To Fish
- How The Lakota Sioux Came To Be Brule
- Iktomi
- Iktomi And The Coyote
- Iktomi And The Ducks
- Iktomi And The Fawn
- Iktomi And The Muskrat
- Iktomi And The Turtle
- Iktomi's Blanket
- Iya, The Camp Eater
- Lakota Creation Myth
- Manstin, The Rabbit
- Origin Of The Lakota Peace Pipe
- Pretty Feathered Forehead
- The Artichoke And The Muskrat
- The Badger And The Bear
- The Origin Of The Prairie Rose
- The Resuscitation Of The Only Daughter
- The Shooting Of Red Eagle
- The Toad And The Boy
- The Tree-Bound
- The Warlike Seven
- The Wonderful Turtle
- Why The Leaves Fall
- Story 1 THE FORGOTTEN EAR OF CORN
- Story 2 THE LITTLE MICE
- Story 3 THE PET RABBIT
- Story 4 THE PET DONKEY
- Story 5 THE RABBIT AND THE ELK
- Story 6 THE RABBIT AND THE GROUSE GIRLS
- Story 7 THE FAITHFUL LOVERS
- Story 9 THE RABBIT AND THE BEAR WITH THE FLINT BODY
- Story 10 STORY OF THE LOST WIFE
- Story 11 THE RACCOON AND THE CRAWFISH
- Story 12 LEGEND OF STANDING ROCK
- Story 15 THE SIMPLETON'S WISDOM
- Story 18 THE SIGNS OF CORN
- Story 20 HOW THE RABBIT LOST HIS TAIL
- Story 21 UNKTOMI AND THE ARROWHEADS
- Story 22 THE BEAR AND THE RABBIT HUNT BUFFALO
- Story 23 THE BRAVE WHO WENT ON THE WARPATH ALONE AND WON THE NAME OF THE LONE WARRIOR
- Story 24 THE SIOUX WHO MARRIED THE CROW CHIEF'S DAUGHTER
- Story 25 THE BOY AND THE TURTLES
- Story 26 THE HERMIT, OR THE GIFT OF CORN
- Story 27 THE MYSTERIOUS BUTTE
- Story 29 THE MAN AND THE OAK
- Story 30 STORY OF THE TWO YOUNG FRIENDS
- Story 31 THE STORY OF THE PET CROW
- Story 32 THE “WASNA” (PEMMICAN) MAN AND THE UNKTOMI (SPIDER)
- Story 34 THE STORY OF THE PET CRANE
- Story 35 WHITE FEATHER
- Story 36 STORY OF PRETTY FEATHERED FOREHEAD
- Story 37 THE FOUR BROTHERS; OR INYANHOKSILA (STONE BOY)
- Story 38 THE UNKTOMI (SPIDER), TWO WIDOWS, AND THE RED PLUMS
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