Sacred Hills: Preserving Lakota Sioux Culture in South Dakota

Sequoia Crosswhite is dedicated to preserving and passing on the stories of the Lakota people. As a tour guide in Black Hills, South Dakota, he educates others about the 10,000-year-old native culture, taking them on journeys through the sacred lands and ancient petroglyphs. By walking others through the footsteps of his ancestors, Crosswhite is carrying on and protecting Lakota culture for generations to come.
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  • @CookingJapanese
    @CookingJapanese6 жыл бұрын

    It is so important to preserve their land and culture. Thanks for telling their story Great Big Story!

  • @lthompson6750

    @lthompson6750

    4 жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/Zo6EzZKyo9e7ips.html How the Lakota Got the Black Hills - In their own words.

  • @abominablesnowman7936

    @abominablesnowman7936

    3 жыл бұрын

    We are 99.9% all the same and race is a social construct. They look like Indian supremacists to me talking about their land and their culture. They need to embrace multiculturalism and stop being so racist.

  • @abominablesnowman7936

    @abominablesnowman7936

    3 жыл бұрын

    @SEBASTIEN WYSZNIEWSKI as soon as any European says that they are considered Nazis that want to kill 6mil dews. So yes they are red supremacists, indian neo nazis and racial bigots. We all bleed red mate, race is a social construct.

  • @silverhiker4549
    @silverhiker45492 жыл бұрын

    I'm Lakota and I'd give just about anything to learn on a tour with him. I love my people so sweetly and with much respect.

  • @kahlilhernandez7143
    @kahlilhernandez71436 жыл бұрын

    One of the reasons why I love GBS.

  • @joeyquintana8916
    @joeyquintana89165 жыл бұрын

    Lakota my native people we are still here stronger.keep the culture alive for our young ones.stay strong all our native people all around world try to break us tearing up our lands.amen

  • @Krtwells

    @Krtwells

    5 жыл бұрын

    Stay strong and get stronger..Don't let them break you or your people.

  • @OblivionIce
    @OblivionIce6 жыл бұрын

    As a native South Dakotan the Black Hills are absolutely beautiful.

  • @tomrice5476
    @tomrice54764 жыл бұрын

    Respect the Lakota from South Dakota

  • @lavnlyhateshvydn
    @lavnlyhateshvydn3 жыл бұрын

    I know him. Lived at his workplace for awhile. Taught lakota, spiritual great dude. Taught me alot.

  • @abominablesnowman7936

    @abominablesnowman7936

    3 жыл бұрын

    Indian supremacists to me talking about their land and their culture. They need to embrace multiculturalism and stop being so racist.

  • @ottodidakt3069

    @ottodidakt3069

    Жыл бұрын

    @@abominablesnowman7936 mouahaha ... was my first reaction, but I really just feel sorrow for you !

  • @pixpixpixpixpix
    @pixpixpixpixpix6 жыл бұрын

    I went to South Dakota just two weeks ago, beautiful place! So rich with history

  • @cavancameron8808
    @cavancameron88086 жыл бұрын

    I know him! He is such a nice person.

  • @apshah2008
    @apshah20083 жыл бұрын

    Hello. Thanks to my Guru, Sadhguru, who visited this land just recently that we Indians from India are being educated and encouraged to learn more about your culture and people. Happy Indigenous People's Day.

  • @dyslexicgirl4700
    @dyslexicgirl47005 жыл бұрын

    My name Is Lakota i Am not native american but I have a soul of one.I live in south Africa I'm trying to go to south Dakota to pine ridge.I'm trying to help natives.✌I don't have enough money to get their.I was named after the great native warriors.✌✌✌

  • @lthompson6750

    @lthompson6750

    4 жыл бұрын

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  • @cobaltnoodle998

    @cobaltnoodle998

    3 жыл бұрын

    You don’t have the soul of a native.

  • @nialloneill5097

    @nialloneill5097

    3 жыл бұрын

    You can help them through prayer... but first you must help yourself and open your heart to the Great Spirit, and become one with the Flow of the Spirit...then, He will guide you upon your path to help the the earth and its peoples, including the great Lakota nation ! Perhaps, you was already there not so long ago...as one of the Bird Tribes people, as was I, and a minority of other spiritual warriors who came to protect the ways of the culture against those of the white man, who has brought devastation to the earth, and to the spiritual energies in beyond. Now the tide turns, as karmic reactions bring great changes, so be prepared for these Dyslexic Girl, for much will be demanded of those are willing and able to serve the Great Spirit! Aho!

  • @julierodabaugh6016
    @julierodabaugh60165 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and style to all. Peace and harmony.

  • @MartinTabanag
    @MartinTabanag6 жыл бұрын

    i am humbly inspired by this story. i hope to see more people like this in person

  • @thehappyappleapple9965
    @thehappyappleapple99655 жыл бұрын

    I found this while I was doing a project. It was very interesting. Thank you.

  • @teyanuputorti7927
    @teyanuputorti792711 ай бұрын

    Great video thank you great big story for sharing this

  • @jerricho11
    @jerricho115 жыл бұрын

    I love the black hills. I've gone through them several times and can't get enough. But if it meant the Lakota people could have their land back, I'd be willing to give up seeing them ever again.

  • @jerricho11

    @jerricho11

    Жыл бұрын

    @@dancer80603 Even the Cheyenne are against what is happening to it. So give it back to the first Nation's people and let them sort it out.

  • @laffilmfest3759
    @laffilmfest37593 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @laurelsingsit3507
    @laurelsingsit35076 жыл бұрын

    I need to get more into my heritage and my culture

  • @Izumi_Ikebukuro

    @Izumi_Ikebukuro

    5 жыл бұрын

    You're not native you're European

  • @augustjones6078

    @augustjones6078

    4 жыл бұрын

    What is your decent?

  • @LilianaGarcia-hu1sr
    @LilianaGarcia-hu1sr6 жыл бұрын

    beautiful. ..

  • @SanrioiLuvU
    @SanrioiLuvU3 жыл бұрын

    i Like this it tells me alot

  • @Kanal7Indonesia
    @Kanal7Indonesia6 жыл бұрын

    I’m called to preserve my native culture too...

  • @deborahleone4351
    @deborahleone43514 жыл бұрын

    Keep on working dear brother! Praying for all of you. Never give up your precious Sanctuary. I love you all. 🔆💕🙏✝️✡️🙋‍♀️

  • @boobsvids
    @boobsvids2 жыл бұрын

    Nice vid tahansi

  • @benrtinez36
    @benrtinez366 жыл бұрын

    good video.

  • @sti8u
    @sti8u6 жыл бұрын

    @00:21 holy shit how many lights do you need to turn on when you enter the garage?

  • @starhill6792
    @starhill67926 жыл бұрын

    It's interesting to learn of the culture my grandfather was stolen from...

  • @abominablesnowman7936

    @abominablesnowman7936

    3 жыл бұрын

    Indian supremacists to me talking about their land and their culture. They need to embrace multiculturalism and stop being so racist.

  • @ggf3897
    @ggf38974 жыл бұрын

    Intro reminding me of Red Dead Redemption II

  • @laylayspoons1817
    @laylayspoons18174 жыл бұрын

    *Black hills are not for sale*

  • @augustjones6078

    @augustjones6078

    4 жыл бұрын

    How much we talking?

  • @augustjones6078

    @augustjones6078

    4 жыл бұрын

    Put a billion in my account and it is.

  • @ls133
    @ls1336 жыл бұрын

    There is a place in the Death Valley that looks the same !

  • @michaelthomas788
    @michaelthomas7882 жыл бұрын

    What is the difference between Yankton Sioux and I Lakota

  • @nialloneill5097
    @nialloneill50973 жыл бұрын

    A sacred place before the Lakota adopted it, for it was known amongst many tribes as a sacred place, and as a precious gift from the Great Spirit and Great Mystery. Now he reveals His Wisdom to those who beseech him with pure souls, and who arorn their spiritual garments with the humble desire to serve Him once again, but make haste, for the time of retribution is almost upon us..and is it not the doom of men...that they forget.. Thus, let us awaken every day, in joy and reverence, for the precious gift of life given us long ago by the Creator, and awaken the way of the Lakota and of the spirit once more, lest we be found unworthy and wanting, and thereby removed from His beautiful garden of abundant fruits, that was for our benefit, not His. AHO!

  • @derekflores3089
    @derekflores30896 жыл бұрын

    The Lakota took the Black Hills from the Cheyenne in the 18th century who in turn had taken it from the Kiowa. To say it's the origin of the Lakota people is ridiculous.

  • @willb8684

    @willb8684

    5 жыл бұрын

    i know lol....they kill cheyene then claim its sacred to them only lol...natives are no different then any one else

  • @jayscroggins.thunderboy3064

    @jayscroggins.thunderboy3064

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wacicus😊 you talk to much💩 .

  • @lthompson6750

    @lthompson6750

    4 жыл бұрын

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  • @OOPmanL

    @OOPmanL

    2 ай бұрын

    Wow i saw that movie too!! You probably saw the youtube video about it too

  • @benrtinez36
    @benrtinez366 жыл бұрын

    cwy and apache my other friend is the Crow.

  • @vrexozert9541
    @vrexozert95412 жыл бұрын

    I’m watching this for school work 😭😭😭

  • @celticcc3658
    @celticcc36583 жыл бұрын

    Good video

  • @dennisborrh1614
    @dennisborrh16145 жыл бұрын

    Lakota people, I ask a serious question: Do you receive financial help from one in Germany, who says he collects for Lakotas?

  • @mmakotal4388

    @mmakotal4388

    3 жыл бұрын

    My mom got 12¢ on year lol... maybe if we lucky 1.27$ lol

  • @retiredshitposter1062
    @retiredshitposter10626 жыл бұрын

    0:18 fudgesickle om nom nom

  • @guitarmatt94
    @guitarmatt946 жыл бұрын

    Video was too short

  • @the_architect8655
    @the_architect86556 жыл бұрын

    Yo

  • @phapart
    @phapart4 жыл бұрын

    Someday the Shoshone will get the black hills back

  • @augustjones6078

    @augustjones6078

    4 жыл бұрын

    Shoshone will get it back when the rocks form a great chief of theirs.

  • @semitayahudineohassan9157
    @semitayahudineohassan91573 жыл бұрын

    🔥Astecas, Maias e Inkas são as 10 Tribos de Israel, Judá e Benjamim vieram depois nos navios tumbeiros🔥

  • @swapmeetsheriffdonknottexp3046
    @swapmeetsheriffdonknottexp30462 жыл бұрын

    Y r all the Damm comments turned off! We need to get to geather with all nations and first Nations of Canada! They did it and won!

  • @teyanuputorti7927

    @teyanuputorti7927

    11 ай бұрын

    Didn’t the First Nations get nunavut as their own?

  • @Jnaga199
    @Jnaga1993 жыл бұрын

    Imagine being a stranger in your own land.

  • @crestoneman8497

    @crestoneman8497

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tell that to the Ainu people. They were in the Japan islands before the people you know as the present day “Japanese” showed up. Was it wrong when the Lakota took the black hills from the Arapahoe or was it only wrong when the US took it from the Lakota?

  • @cesarmartinez505
    @cesarmartinez5056 жыл бұрын

    45th nice video

  • @Agent-kb3zb
    @Agent-kb3zb4 жыл бұрын

    1/1,024

  • @leeahammon5661
    @leeahammon56614 жыл бұрын

    Hold on, help is on the way. It's time for you to meet up with Lawful America.... time to have ur treaties honored.

  • @cpresley2279
    @cpresley22794 жыл бұрын

    What about sittin bull

  • @augustjones6078

    @augustjones6078

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hey bro Sitting Bull huh? He said what about him? Lol. JK

  • @eliabeja9646
    @eliabeja96466 жыл бұрын

    Indigenous footwear: Chucks

  • @andrewr62
    @andrewr625 жыл бұрын

    So who took the Black Hills from who? Did not the Kiowas the original settlers of the Black Hills get kicked out by the Cheyenne who were later defeated by the Lakota who then occupied this area?

  • @willb8684

    @willb8684

    5 жыл бұрын

    its the great hypocrisy of native americans

  • @AuntieAM1
    @AuntieAM15 жыл бұрын

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  • @jayscroggins.thunderboy3064
    @jayscroggins.thunderboy30644 жыл бұрын

    Hasapa , Lela wakan pejuta was'telo Pilameya Tunkasila Wakan Tanka wopila tanka aho hecietu mitakuye oyasin.

  • @augustjones6078

    @augustjones6078

    4 жыл бұрын

    Easy on the sacred language man Nobody on here understands it .

  • @ryohn5468

    @ryohn5468

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes I understand Lakhota.

  • @ryohn5468

    @ryohn5468

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mitakuye Oyasin means to all my relations.

  • @ryohn5468

    @ryohn5468

    3 жыл бұрын

    Pilamaya is thank you. Wakan Tanka is the great mystery or great spirit. Hechetu is right. As in that's right.

  • @ryohn5468

    @ryohn5468

    3 жыл бұрын

    Tunkasila is grandfather.

  • @dustiefarrell1450
    @dustiefarrell14504 жыл бұрын

    Kinda looks like he's wearing a giant burrito on his back

  • @cpresley2279
    @cpresley22794 жыл бұрын

    I’m chief sitting bulls grand son i wanna meet you I got chief sitting bulls documents hit me up

  • @juliapaciorek3385
    @juliapaciorek33856 жыл бұрын

    4th

  • @tellegabriel
    @tellegabriel3 жыл бұрын

    Preserving culture & people is so important. I am all support & respect for the native Indians who were here before the white men came. This land was taken away from them. Today they are left with so little. Yet this very act is appalling to some narrow-minded Americans who believe they have the God-given right to be in this land first. They forget they were immigrants too. Learn the history and exercise compassion. Please do not remain ignorant forever. We have a lot to learn to live together in harmony, peace & respect of each other.

  • @stringcheese5614
    @stringcheese56146 жыл бұрын

    Bwef

  • @ilsunnylo3562
    @ilsunnylo35626 жыл бұрын

    Nice view. But wheres the natives?

  • @hubert1154

    @hubert1154

    4 жыл бұрын

    On the rez for the most part

  • @mariii100

    @mariii100

    3 жыл бұрын

    The Rez

  • @thelastjohnwayne
    @thelastjohnwayne4 жыл бұрын

    The U.S. Government should give most or all of the Government land in the Black Hills back to the Sioux. The land that the Government stole from the Sioux. And the land that is still in depute today.

  • @davidjanssen3314
    @davidjanssen33146 жыл бұрын

    Dude is high af.

  • @jgagnier
    @jgagnier5 жыл бұрын

    "The role of the storyteller is to teach truth through myths". Well, then.

  • @alecwineinger
    @alecwineinger4 жыл бұрын

    Y’all butchered and bullied the Cheyenne out of the site and destroyed their own stories of that land while making those hills your world. Funny how it works like that

  • @lthompson6750

    @lthompson6750

    4 жыл бұрын

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  • @calvink991
    @calvink9914 жыл бұрын

    Keep your land, build a wall and make Trump pay for it... You have the power!!!!!!

  • @augustjones6078

    @augustjones6078

    4 жыл бұрын

    No way dude. How about give the and back pay compensation for the years it's been out of our hands. Make mexico build their own wall to keep Americans out of their country an so on an so forth? Lol. Ya ok

  • @jeffsanders1609
    @jeffsanders16094 жыл бұрын

    “How convenient to cloak your claims in spiritualism.” -Col. Nelson Miles

  • @dlafont256

    @dlafont256

    3 жыл бұрын

    As opposed to what? Greed?

  • @johnbrown9542
    @johnbrown95424 жыл бұрын

    I wonder if the Sioux will ever pay the Pawnee, Shoshone, and Crow tribes for the land they stole from them or the damages their warriors caused those tribes when they raided and murdered their people Such as the massacre at Massacre Canyon Nebraska where over 100 Pawnee (mostly Women and children) were massacred by Sioux warriors who would have massacred 300 more of a nearby US cavalry regiment hadn’t heard the fighting and came to the Pawnee’s rescue So forgive me not no. I’m not sorry for these pork and I don’t think we should pay them a billion dollars or a million dollars or even a single penny on top of the billions we subsidize their existence with through the BIA every single year

  • @lthompson6750

    @lthompson6750

    4 жыл бұрын

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  • @lite4919
    @lite49196 жыл бұрын

    White man owes the native peoples of the lands they conquered an apology and give them their own lands back.

  • @willb8684

    @willb8684

    5 жыл бұрын

    nope...natives killed each other for land and thats ok...?cheyene where in the black hills first and got ran off their land so why cant whites do the same?

  • @augustjones6078

    @augustjones6078

    4 жыл бұрын

    Wana use Redskins and chiefs as some kind of football team? They never played football except Jim Thorpe one of the greatest ever! Come on with it!

  • @liljons6753
    @liljons67534 жыл бұрын

    Old western movies...made yall look bad......

  • @AF-cf5ty
    @AF-cf5ty3 жыл бұрын

    I'm sad that I know nothing about my culture. My grandma was born on a reservation so a large portion of who I identify as is lakota sioux. So sad to see hundred of years of a beautiful culture destroyed by the hands of white men

  • @nialloneill5097

    @nialloneill5097

    3 жыл бұрын

    The tide begins to turn now, as nature brings karmic reactions to those who follow the ways of the white man. The ways of Lakota begin to return, even on the res, through good initiatives, but soon the land will be free to them again like before, but first the prophecies come true, as the earth and nature rebels against the path of falsehood. So become seeing by offering your life to the Great Spirit, then come to know of your tribes ways through truth and wisdom given from the great beyond and Great Mystery, who reveals Himself and His Ways to those who can surrender their fears, and tear out and proffer up their hearts to Him before the midday sun, for true service to the Almighty Father and the Divine Will, which daily reveals its wrath at the ways of the white man, which as you say, left its indelible wounds upon the Lakota way of life, and all but severed the connection with the spiritual ways of this once proud and noble nation. I know... for I was there !!! Now let us rejoice...for the time and return of the Bird Tribes beckons once again. Aho!!!

  • @That90sShow
    @That90sShow2 ай бұрын

    Lmao.. the Lakota stole this land from the cheyenne. What kinda BS is this?

  • @martinmcmcdonald4783
    @martinmcmcdonald47834 жыл бұрын

    How is this guy an Indian he is whiter than white .

  • @ceciliarichter2458
    @ceciliarichter24584 жыл бұрын

    Funny how Trump just stepped on another hornests nest. Just saying.