There is a story, a worageh, about an Ioway man who saw some ghosts. You can read it here. http://hotcakencyclopedia.com/ho.PeteDupeeAndGhosts.htmlRead more... )

( Read more... )

Winter is the traditional time for storytelling for most Native American tribes, including mine, the Ioway. From the first snow until the snakes wake up in the spring, because the traditions are that the snakes are guardians of the sacred myths and will bite you if they overhear your telling the stories.


( Read more... )

On our reservation, in the days of starvation and need, when the white man first put us there, there comes a story of an old Ioway man who was poor and had no relatives and no home. But he had seeds, corn, beans and squash.
He wandered our reservation, and planted a few seeds here and there, in hollows, in sunny spots, wherever he went. No big ( Read more... )

I am Bear, from my clan (Ioway Bear Clan).

Once during an AIM powwow at Fort Snelling, Minnesota in the early 1990s, while dancing my mind shifted and my right hand took on the appearance of a bearpaw, with claws and hair even. I thought I was delusional, in an altered state brought on by constant dancing, drums, and cultural expectations. But the ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

Elk were most certainly native to Iowa, from ancient times. We of the Ioway (Iowa) Tribe called the Elk, "Huma" (HOO-mah). The Elk Clan was one of our sacred clans that made up the Ioway tribe, the original people of Iowa, for whom the state of Iowa was named. In the Clan Legends, the Elk Clan was the Keeper of the Sacred Fire. Archaeological sites ( Read more... )

Came across this, which you might be interested in reading. People sometimes say the Indians worshipped various gods before the coming of Christianity, or that Wakanda was simply our name for God, the same concept as in religion today. In researching these things, I came across an interesting passage from "The Omaha" by Fletcher and La Flesche, ( Read more... )

( Read more... )

( Read more... )