34Indigenous
Lakota Traditions
Not one story under both names. A Lakota telling has the people emerging at Wind Cave, in the Black Hills. That emergence is not filed as a Dakota origin. Dakota origin is Unclassified / Source Needed.
Architecture
Not one Oceti Sakowin circuit
What is filed is Lakota and marked as Lakota: Wind Cave, the pipe, Wakaŋ Tȟáŋka, the spirit road, the hoop. Dakota is not filled from those lines.
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Not one people
Lakota sentences stop at Lakota. Dakota stays unclassified where no Dakota claim is filed.
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Wind Cave
A Lakota emergence. Not a Dakota origin on this row.
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The pipe
White Buffalo Calf Woman brings it, in the Lakota telling.
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Spirit road
Wanáǧi Thacháŋku, the Milky Way. A path, not a world-stack.
- Time
- Unclassified / Source Needed.
- Agents
- Wakaŋ Tȟáŋka, left untranslated. Wakíŋyaŋ. White Buffalo Calf Woman.
- Human slot
- Unclassified / Source Needed. Not copied from one nation onto the other.
- Break
- No dualism is imported.
Recorded claims
An evidence label is shown only where the kind of source is already established. No label means unclassified. A label is not a judgment. Source Needed means no source is attached yet. It does not mean the claim is false, weak, or disproven.
Origin / Reality
Not one story under both names. A Lakota telling has the people emerging at Wind Cave, in the Black Hills. That emergence is not filed as a Dakota origin. Dakota origin is Unclassified / Source Needed.
Source NeededHuman Nature
Unclassified / Source Needed. A Lakota way of speaking about the person is not copied onto Dakota.
Source NeededDeath / Afterlife
A Lakota teaching names a spirit road, Wanáǧi Thacháŋku, identified with the Milky Way. It is not filed as the Dakota teaching.
Source NeededRebirth
Unclassified / Source Needed.
Source NeededOther Beings
Wakaŋ Tȟáŋka is not translated here as another tradition’s God. Wakíŋyaŋ, the Thunder Beings, and White Buffalo Calf Woman are Lakota names. Dakota beings are not renamed into these.
Source NeededOther Realms
Unclassified / Source Needed. The Lakota spirit road is a path, not a stack of worlds taken from another row.
Source NeededWorld Structure / Axis
The Lakota sacred hoop is not a world-tree and not a Meru. It is not assigned to Dakota by this sentence.
Source NeededDestruction / Reset
Unclassified / Source Needed.
Source NeededHow Truth Is Known
Lakota: the sacred pipe, and ceremonies including inípi and haŋbléčheya, held by those who carry them. Dakota ceremony is not listed as the same rite. No book is filed as the source.
Source Needed
Sources & EvidenceShowHideNo source is attached yet. Source Needed is a research gap, not a judgment.
The tradition or source
What that source says. Not a scholar’s retelling, and not a SCARCE inference.
None attached.
A modern researcher
What a scholar or other modern writer says about the source. Not the source’s own words.
None attached.
SCARCE
What this project infers or sets beside the records. Not what the source said.
None attached.
How we know
Where the evidence comes from, and how far it is from the people it describes. The labels are not a score. They do not rank traditions. A manuscript year, a tradition’s own claim, and a date from the ground are kept apart on the timeline.
A Lakota sentence is marked Lakota. No manuscript canon is filed, and no start century is assigned.
Dakota is not filled from it. No century is assigned here as the start, because no contemporary source establishes one. Collector’s syntheses are not treated as the nation’s own canon.
Original evidence → transmission / copy → translation / documentation → modern interpretation
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Original evidence
Recorded oral tradition
Pipe, ceremony, and language are the primary mode. They do not leave an autograph.
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Transmission / copy
Outside account
Ethnographers’ systems, including arrangements that turn many beings into one theology, are outside accounts. They are not copied into the cells.
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Translation / documentation
Recorded oral tradition
English glosses are documentation. Wakaŋ Tȟáŋka is not replaced by another tradition’s word for God.
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Modern interpretation
Unknown / insufficient surviving evidence
Where a cell says Unclassified / Source Needed, no source was identified. Dakota is not guessed from Lakota. No provenance label is attached.
Already a separate record
- Open that record — The umbrella. It does not speak for Lakota or for Dakota.
The twenty-one questions
Asked of every system. Gaps are recorded as gaps. Nothing here is filled in to make a pattern prettier.
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Where are we?
Not one place for both names. A Lakota telling is set in relation to the Black Hills and to emergence at Wind Cave. Dakota country is not that sentence.
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What is reality made of?
Unclassified / Source Needed.
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What is a human being?
Unclassified / Source Needed. A Lakota account of the person is not copied onto Dakota.
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What is consciousness?
Unclassified / Source Needed.
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Where did humanity come from?
A Lakota account: the people emerge from Wind Cave. Dakota origin is Unclassified / Source Needed, rather than borrowed from the Lakota telling.
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What happens at death?
A Lakota teaching: the spirit travels Wanáǧi Thacháŋku, the spirit road, identified with the Milky Way. Not filed as Dakota.
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Does consciousness return to embodiment?
Unclassified / Source Needed.
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Where is consciousness between lives?
Unclassified / Source Needed.
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Are there nonhuman intelligent beings?
Wakaŋ Tȟáŋka is left untranslated. Wakíŋyaŋ, the Thunder Beings, and White Buffalo Calf Woman are Lakota. Dakota names are not replaced by these.
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Can those beings become human or appear human?
White Buffalo Calf Woman comes as a woman and brings the pipe, in the Lakota telling. A Dakota version is not substituted.
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Are there multiple realms or worlds?
Unclassified / Source Needed. The Lakota spirit road is a path, not a stack of worlds.
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Is there a central mountain, tree, pillar, axis, heart, or sacred center?
The Lakota sacred hoop is not a world-tree and not Meru. It is not assigned to Dakota here.
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Is the world itself alive?
Uncí Makȟá, Grandmother Earth, is a Lakota person. That name is not given to other nations on this row.
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Has civilization or the world been destroyed or reset before?
Unclassified / Source Needed.
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Does history operate linearly or cyclically?
Unclassified / Source Needed.
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Is there an opposing positive/negative force?
Unclassified / Source Needed. No dualism is imported onto this row.
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What is humanity supposed to become?
Lakota: to live as a relative, with the pipe and the rites that belong to it. The Dakota aim is Unclassified / Source Needed.
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Is reincarnation a destination, punishment, school, growth process, or something else?
Unclassified / Source Needed.
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What lies beyond the visible world?
Wakaŋ Tȟáŋka and the Lakota beings already named. Nothing further is inventoried. Dakota unseen persons are Unclassified / Source Needed.
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How does this tradition claim humans can know any of this?
For Lakota: the sacred pipe and ceremony, including inípi and haŋbléčheya. Dakota ceremony is not listed as the same. No book is filed as the source.
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Does the structure or motion of the heavens correspond to events, conditions, or consciousness within the human realm?
The Lakota spirit road is identified with the Milky Way. A natal astrology is not claimed. Dakota correspondence is Unclassified / Source Needed.
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Why did humanity forget?
Unclassified / Source Needed.
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