We start out on a gorgeous late morning in early summer from Mount Laurel, New Jersey, and head for the mountains of the Delaware Water Gap up in Columbia, nearly two hours to the north of us. To reach our destination, we will spend considerable time on Highway 31, passing by numerous fields of cultivated ...
1) Name: Sitting Bull Indian Name: Tatanka Iyotanka Birth: 1831 Death: 12-15-1890 Nation: Hunkpapa Sioux Why: He is seen as a symbol of resistance by American Indians, especially the Lakota Nation. In a 1997 documentary titled The Great Tribes, he is noted as a renaissance man, holy man, great warrior, hard-bargaining politician, composer of songs ...
Legend of the Spider and Grandmother What ties together a spider and a grandmother? In an ancient Native American tale, an old grandmother saw a spider nearby her sleeping spot. She had watched the spider for days while he spun his web. Her grandson entered one day and saw the spider. He picked up a ...
Being part Native American myself, I treasure the myths and legends of all Native American tribes. One that I find particularly interesting and heart warming comes from the Lakota tribe. It is the myth of the White Buffalo Woman. The Sioux also embraces a similar myth. The Lakota believe that the White Buffalo Woman came ...
LAKOTA SQUASH FOR WINTER STORAGE Lakota squash is one of the winter storage types of squash. It’s a medium sized, somewhat pear-shaped squash, weighing an average of about seven pounds. The squash are hard-shelled, as are all storage types, and they are dark green splotched with bright orange. Some may be almost entirely either green ...
