Expanding its investment in translating the Book of Common Prayer into indigenous languages, the Episcopal Church has given the Diocese of South Dakota a grant to pay for a new Lakota translation. A ...

In the Sioux creation narrative, water is one of the first beings the Creator made. Now the Lakota prayer over water is a rallying cry in the protest to prevent construction near the Standing Rock ...

Last April, Case - who asked to be identified by her maiden name - left the Wisconsin couple's group of non-Indian followers. Unsure of what to do with the pipe she had carved for prayer, she gave it ...

Traditional Lakota spirituality. The sacred calf pipe ; Relation to the earth and the spirit world ; Spiritual food ; The sweat lodge ceremony ; The vision quest ; The sun dance ; Yuwipi meetings -- ...