The beginnings, history, culture, and artwork about the Cheyenne River tribe.
Our story beings with peace toward each other. The story wasn’t just suffering, it was beautiful, healing, hopeful, sharing, spiritual, and freedom. Thousands of years of courage, heroism, facing the broken promises, and the odds against survival. Had all the respect to Mother Nature. She wasn’t owned by any of us. We took care of her like she was our own mother. We are grateful for what she provides us in the world. A big part of the creation of life and has no command. We believed in all great and smalls spirits. Believed in a myth where how the earth was created. Another world before ours, they were displeased and never behaved themselves. The creating power was …show more content…
The scared ceremonies where empowered, cleansed, and unified them. Some of them included a sacred pipe like a marriage. But before that starts with the Lakota cleaning their bodies and using the four basic element from the earth. Another one is when the girls leave for four dance and fast, and open to the Great Spirit. Then do the sacred pipe. Carrying the prayers and the good thoughts with them. The spiritual ceremonies were: the sun dance, making relatives, preparation of womanhood, throwing the bell, rite of purification, keeping of the soul. The sun dance was the most important to the Sioux and important to practice and practice on the dance. The ceremony would start at sunrise for four days. Short breaks but without food or water, they pretty much self-sacrifices themselves. The men this were rare for the women, the wanted a man who can hunt, healing powers, and fighting. They would use a holy man or someone that have danced before. The holy man had to prepare the buffalo skulls and place them all around. The dancers had to wear sage, sage is a type of weed that Native Americans bless with. But they wear them around there ankles, wrist, and heads, and the men carry a wing bone from an eagle. When the holy man went up to them, he pierced each of the dancers in the chest
Our story beings with peace toward each other. The story wasn’t just suffering, it was beautiful, healing, hopeful, sharing, spiritual, and freedom. Thousands of years of courage, heroism, facing the broken promises, and the odds against survival. Had all the respect to Mother Nature. She wasn’t owned by any of us. We took care of her like she was our own mother. We are grateful for what she provides us in the world. A big part of the creation of life and has no command. We believed in all great and smalls spirits. Believed in a myth where how the earth was created. Another world before ours, they were displeased and never behaved themselves. The creating power was …show more content…
The scared ceremonies where empowered, cleansed, and unified them. Some of them included a sacred pipe like a marriage. But before that starts with the Lakota cleaning their bodies and using the four basic element from the earth. Another one is when the girls leave for four dance and fast, and open to the Great Spirit. Then do the sacred pipe. Carrying the prayers and the good thoughts with them. The spiritual ceremonies were: the sun dance, making relatives, preparation of womanhood, throwing the bell, rite of purification, keeping of the soul. The sun dance was the most important to the Sioux and important to practice and practice on the dance. The ceremony would start at sunrise for four days. Short breaks but without food or water, they pretty much self-sacrifices themselves. The men this were rare for the women, the wanted a man who can hunt, healing powers, and fighting. They would use a holy man or someone that have danced before. The holy man had to prepare the buffalo skulls and place them all around. The dancers had to wear sage, sage is a type of weed that Native Americans bless with. But they wear them around there ankles, wrist, and heads, and the men carry a wing bone from an eagle. When the holy man went up to them, he pierced each of the dancers in the chest