Sacred Land
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- Sacred Land
- Sioux believed that they came from the earth, like the plants and the animals
- When they died, they returned to the earth
- They were part of the land
- The land could not be owned by one individual or nation
- The land was part of life itself
- The Sioux attitude to land was one of the most misunderstood beliefs
- The whites believed that the Plains Indians wasted the land because they didn't farm, so the couldn't possibly need all of it
- Ownership of the land became an increasingly tense issue over the period 1840 - 1870, becoming the greatest source of conflict
- The whites believed that the Plains Indians wasted the land because they didn't farm, so the couldn't possibly need all of it
- Some land was particularly sacred, especially high places
- For the Sioux, the Black Hills were sacred
- They took their dead for burial there
- Holy men went there to seek guidance when the nation had an important decision to make
- The Sioux were prepared to fight to the death over the Black Hills
- For the Sioux, the Black Hills were sacred
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