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The word is usually translated as "Thunder Spirits", "Thunder Beings," or "Thunder Birds". [1] Heyokas , that is contrarians, dream of Wakinyan and can burn cedar ( Juniperus scopulorum ) to protect themselves from thunder and lightning, since Wakinyan respect trees and will not harm them.
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In Lakota spirituality, Wakan Tanka (Standard Lakota Orthography: Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka) is the term for the sacred or the divine. [1] [2] This is usually translated as the "Great Spirit" and occasionally as "Great Mystery".
The Lakota medicine man Black Elk described himself as a heyoka, saying he had been visited as a child by the thunder beings. [5] A survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre , Black Elk toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Europe and discussed his religious views, visions, and events in a series of interviews with poet John Neihardt , collected ...
Lakota (Lakȟótiyapi [laˈkˣɔtɪjapɪ]), also referred to as Lakhota, Teton or Teton Sioux, is a Siouan language spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes. Lakota is mutually intelligible with the two dialects of the Dakota language, especially Western Dakota, and is one of the three major varieties of the Sioux language.
In the Lakota language, there is no term cognate to the English word "religion", [29] although Christian missionaries active among the Lakota have tried to devise one. [30] Some Lakota prefer to refer to their religious traditions as a "way of life", [31] while elsewhere some writers have referred to it as "Lakota spirituality."
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It reflects the world view of interconnectedness held by the Lakota people of North America. [1] This concept and phrase is expressed in many Yankton Sioux prayers, [2] as well as by ceremonial people in other Lakota communities. [3] [4] The phrase translates in English as "all my relatives," "we are all related," or "all my relations."