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  • OSEU Introduction
    • Quick OSEU Overview Activity
    • Thematic OSEU Conversations Activity
  • Storytelling with Duane Hollow Horn Bear
    • Iktomi and Duane’s Daughter
    • The Meadowlarks
    • Iktomi & the Handkerchief AND Iktomi & the Pointing Game
    • Iktomi & the Prairie Chickens, Cooking the Prairie Chickens, Getting Revenge AND the Lizard Children
    • Iktomi and the Animal Warrior Society
    • The Boy and the Bear
    • How the People Prayed Before the Pipe
    • The Cost of Gambling and Alcohol
    • A Proper Grieving
  • WoLakota Project Professional Development for Educators
    • OSEU Overview & IDM Lesson Construction
    • Indigenous Learning Research
    • Elder Quote Posters
    • The Importance of Elder Interviews
  • All Interviews
    • OSEU 1 Interviews
    • OSEU 2 Interviews
    • OSEU 3 Interviews
    • OSEU 4 Interviews
    • OSEU 5 Interviews
    • OSEU 6 Interviews
    • OSEU 7 Interviews
    • Interviews by Tribal Affiliation Map
    • WoLakota Project Professional Development for Educators
    • 1868 Ft. Laramie Treaty Commemoration
  • OSEU Exemplar Lessons
    • 2018 4th Grade & OSEU Lessons
    • 2018 Todd County Middle School OSEU Lessons
    • 2017 Fine Arts & OSEU Lessons
    • 2016 SD Social Studies & OSEU Lessons
      • South Dakota IDM Lesson Planning
      • SD Social Studies Standards & OSEU Course
    • 2015 Social Studies / OSEU Connectors
  • WoLakota Project Related Films
    • Tasunke Witko (Crazy Horse): A Documentary Film
    • Tokata: Moving Forward in Indian Education
    • Teaching From Within: A Film on Intrinsic Motivation in the Classroom
  • Cultural Reconnection Through Story
  • Lakota Virtues
  • Oceti Sakowin & Dakota Players

Lakota Stories

These links will take you to pages on the  www.FirstPeople.us  website. These pages and the texts on them were in no way collected or produced by the WoLakota Project.

  • A Bashful Courtship
  • A Little Brave And The Medicine Woman
  • Black Corn
  • Brave Woman Counts Coup
  • Chief Roman Nose Loses His Medicine
  • Dance In A Buffalo Skull
  • Dreamcatcher
  • How People Learned To Fish
  • How The Lakota Sioux Came To Be Brule
  • Iktomi
  • Iktomi And The Coyote
  • Iktomi And The Ducks
  • Iktomi And The Fawn
  • Iktomi And The Muskrat
  • Iktomi And The Turtle
  • Iktomi’s Blanket
  • Iya, The Camp Eater
  • Lakota Creation Myth
  • Manstin, The Rabbit
  • Origin Of The Lakota Peace Pipe
  • Pretty Feathered Forehead
  • The Artichoke And The Muskrat
  • The Badger And The Bear
  • The Origin Of The Prairie Rose
  • The Resuscitation Of The Only Daughter
  • The Shooting Of Red Eagle
  • The Toad And The Boy
  • The Tree-Bound
  • The Warlike Seven
  • The Wonderful Turtle
  • Why The Leaves Fall

Links to Additional Resources

  • Oyate Ta Olowan-Songs of the People
  • Native Knowledge 360
  • Traditional Native Games Site
  • Lakota Circles of Hope
  • SD Dept of Tribal Relations
  • NativeAmericanScience.org
  • Native Land Loss Gif
  • WoLakota YouTube
  • WoLakota Facebook
  • REL NAERA
  • Empowering Teachers to Empower Students Curriculum Compilation
  • Indian Education for All Curriculum
  • OSEU on PBS
  • Lakota Stories
  • Akta Lakota Museum & Cultural Center
  • State Library Native American Collection
  • English to Lakota Dictionary
  • Lakota Letters & Sounds
  • Lakota Language Videos
  • Center for Courage & Renewal
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