Black Hills

[mika]

Lakotas seemed to arrive to Black Hills around 3th quarter of 18th century.
According "Rosebud" winter count 1773-74, American HOrse Winter Count 1775-76, Cloud Shield wintercount 1777-78, and Battiste Good winter count 1784-85

[miller7513]

Re Black Hills

Black Hills
For hundreds of years, the Lakota Nations have considered the Black Hills as sacred. This is where the first people emerged; where they buried their dead, and where up to this very day, they practice sacred ceremonies and seek visions.
Native Americans have inhabited the area of the Black Hills since at least 7000 B.C.E. The Arikara arrived by 1500 C.E., followed by the Cheyenne, Crow, Kiowa and Pawnee. The Lakota arrived from Minnesota in the eighteenth century, driving out the other tribes.
Prior to explorations by the La Verendrye brothers in 1742, many tribes frequented the Black Hills for at least the past 10,000 years. (New World Encyclopedia)

The Black Hills stretch across western South Dakota, northeast Wyoming and southeast Montana and constitute a sacred landscape for the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Omaha. To the Lakota, they are Paha Sapa, “the heart of everything that is.” The Black Hills were the casualty of one of the most blatant land grabs in U.S. history and continue to be the site of a legal and political confrontation. Rick Two-Dogs, an Oglala Lakota medicine man, explains: “All of our origin stories go back to this place. We have a spiritual connection to the Black Hills that can’t be sold. I don’t think I could face the Creator with an open heart if I ever took money for it.”

As native people say, "it is not the land that belongs to the people, it is the people who belong to the land."
For the Lakota people, the Black Hills, or PAHA SAPA,. as they have been called for generations hold a special place in their hearts and spirituality. They are also referred to as the “center of everything that is” and has been a place of prayer and spiritual renewal for thousands, of years. The high peaks have been the site of many Vision Quests and fasting. The earth of PAHA SAPA contains the dust of our ancestors. It should be understandable that these Sacred Hills have a meaning which makes it impossible to accept to sell them for any price.
The Hills are regarded with such great awe that Dakota/Lakota/Nakota have never put up permanent abodes in them, but have only visited them to pray. From them they cut tipi poles; they put offerings in place and bury the dead.
Reverence for PAHA SAPA leads to reverence for the Earth. The Earth is sacred to the Lakota, because it is the Mother of all living things. From the Earth altars are made. In the womb of the Earth the Vision Seeker rests, waiting God’s message to him. Man belongs to the Earth where he was born. The Earth is one of the seven directions to which the Holy Man prays with the Pipe.

Researched by LaDeane Miller
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[lgarcia]

LaDeane:
Hesapa or Black Mountain is the correct Lakota name of what the Wasicun call the Black Hills.
There are probably many places (i know of only one) that carry the name Pahasapa in Ocetisakowin Makoce.
Have a great day,
Louie

[miller7513]

re Black Hills reply # 17
Thanks for the update-I got my info here-
Black Hills
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This article is about the region in South Dakota. For other places, see Black Hills (disambiguation).
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The Black Hills, South Dakota, United States

The Black Hills (Pahá Sápa in Lakota, Moʼȯhta-voʼhonáaeva in Cheyenne)
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