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Lakota background and Culture
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Sioux background and Art Culture
The Sioux
location
The Sioux are over here.
Lakota--Teton
Dakota--Santee
nakota--Yankton
References
Native American Art
Purpose for their Art
Create your own
medicine wheel
- To worship their Gods
- All pieces had specific purposes
Lakota Art Types
Examples
cross shape within circle symbolizes four directions
http://siouxpoet.tripod.com/id14.html
North: (Red) Wisdom & place where ancient ones passed over
Moccassins
Pottery, paintings, baskets,
leather work, sand paintings,
crafts, moccasins & wood carvings
Blankets
http://nativeamerican-art.com/lakota-art.html
Clothing
East: (yellow) beginnings & family
Peace Pipes
Beading
South: (White) youth & friendships
http://www.warpaths2peacepipes.com/native-american-symbols/color-meanings-symbolism.htm
Background
West: (Black) Solitude & Adulthood
To the Sioux:
Lakota Art
-Symbolizes great spiritual significance-
- the shape of the wheel represents the circle of life and death.
The Medicine Wheel
- Considered to be never ending
The Ghost Dance
Lakota
- Represents the Unity in the Great Spirit or Grandfather
Message of end times to Gray Hair's people
The dead would soon return, and the intruding White people would be annihilated
By: Alyssa Livermont, Billie Jo Czeck, & Jessica Burns
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