Paha Sapa: The Sacred Black Hills - The People Of The Seven Council Fires - Dakotas & Wyoming

This is a video about “Paha Sapa”, “The Sacred Black Hills”, home of “The People Of The Seven Council Fires”, in South Dakota & Wyoming, USA and a very special spiritual site, for the Lakota, Cheyenne & Omaha Peoples, as well as many other Indigenous Peoples. There are also videos in this channel for over 250 North & South-American Tribes, First Nations & Peoples.. plus, more for: Elders , Chiefs, Leaders, Historical Events.
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“The Sacred Black Hills” (“Ȟe Sápa”.. or, “Paha Sápa”) are a small and isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains, in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States. Black Elk Peak (formerly known as: Harney Peak), which rises to 7,244 feet (2,208 m), is the range's highest summit. The Black Hills encompass the Black Hills National Forest. The hills were so-called, because, of their dark appearance from a distance, as they were covered in trees.
Indigenous Americans have a long history in the Black Hills. After conquering the Cheyenne, in 1776, the Lakota People took the territory of the Black Hills, which became central to their culture. In 1868, the U.S. government signed the “Fort Laramie Treaty”, establishing the Great Sioux Reservation, west of the Missouri River and exempting the Black Hills ”from all white settlement, forever”. However, when settlers discovered gold there, in 1874, as a result of George Armstrong Custer’s “Black Hills Expedition”,
miners swept into the area, in a gold rush. The US government took the Black Hills and in 1889, “reassigned” the Lakota People, against their wishes, to five smaller reservations in western South Dakota, selling off 9 million acres of their former land.
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Many Thanks & Much Respect To: The Lakota, Cheyenne & Omaha Peoples..; (..and to all the other Peoples, who respect this Sacred Site)..; Elder Leonard Little Finger..; EN.Wikipedia.Org..; CulturalSurvival.Org..; SacredLand.Org..; R. CARLOS NAKAI.. and tp all the brothers & sisters who have lent photos in this video.
Chi Miigwetch!.. Many Blessings & Thanks..!
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