LAKOTA

Lakota: translation

Indigenous nation originating in and around the Great Plains of the center ofNorth America. Theirholy peopleserve as repositories of knowledge, ceremonial leaders,healers, andmediatorswith significantother-than-human persons. Influential but contested presentations of theinitiationand practice of their shamans include works byJohn NeihardtandJoseph Epes Brown, both of whom write aboutNicholas Black Elk.