As the Lakota followed buffalo herds, they ate fruits and berries they found growing wild along the way. The berries included chokeberries, strawberries, cranberries, blueberries, blackberries and raspberries. Other fruits included pears, tomatoes, apples, wild cherries and grapes.

Sioux Indians made their food by roasting it on a spit or broiling it in a skin bag with hot stones.

There are only a couple Lakota Sioux potters that I’m aware of who make hand-made pottery: Elmer Red Starr and his nephew, Norman Red Star. Both use Santa Clara Pueblo clays, methods and styles with their own Sioux sgraffito designs.

Buffalo horns were used to make cups, spoons, toys, ladles, and headdresses. Its Rawhide was of immense use to the Lakota in many ways; as containers for clothing, headdresses, food, medicine bags, buckets, shields, drums, rattles, drumsticks, splints, ropes, saddles, bull boards, knife cases, and horse masks.

Note The spelling of some languages are “Romanized” for ease of pronunciation

Igmú ská waŋ bluhá.

A collection of useful phrases in Lakota Sioux, a Siouan language spoken in parts of the USA and Canada….Useful phrases in Lakota Sioux.

Welcome to our Lakota vocabulary page! Lakota is a Siouan language, related to other languages like Nakoda and Hochunk….Lakota Word Set.

Wašíču is the Lakota and Dakota word for people of Western European descent. It expresses the indigenous population’s perception of the non-natives’ relationship with the land and the indigenous population. Typically it refers to white people but does not specifically mention skin color or race.

c’únksh!, (W. Daughter!; a daughter; a man’s brother’s daughter, a woman’s sister’s daughter (c’unkshí, mic’únkshi, my ~; nic’únkshi, your ~; c’unwíntku kin, his/her ~; c’unkshíyA, to have as daughter, c’unkshíwaye, she is my ~).

Kinship Vocabulary

ah-boo(ah-boo)….. A childs term for “sleep”.

Unci

The Lakota word I want to talk about is “Wiconi”, which means life.