Sioux Nations Educational Posters
for the social studies classroom, home schoolers and as theme decor for home and office.

Sioux Legend of the Personified Rabbit Who Enters the Lair of Pahe-Wathahuni Devourer of Hunters, Giclee Print

How the Rabbit Slew the Devouring Hill - In the long ago there existed a hill of orge-like propensities which drew people into its mouth and devoured them. The Rabbit's grandmother warned him not to approach it upon any account. But the Rabbit was rash, and the very fact that he had been warned against the vicinity made him all the more anxious to visit it. So he went to the hill, and cried mockingly: “Pahe-Wathahuni, draw me into your mouth! Come, devour me!” But Pahe-Wathahuni knew the Rabbit, so he took no notice of him. Shortly afterwards a hunting-arty came that way, and Pahe-Wathahuni opened his mouth, so that they took it to be a great cavern, and entered. The Rabbit, waiting his chance, pressed in behind them. But when he reached Pahe-Wathahauni's stomach the monster felt that something disagreed with him, and he vomited the Rabbit up. Later in the day another hunting-party appeared and Pahe-Wathahumi again opend his capacious gullet. The hunters entered unwittingly, and were devoured. And once more the Rabbit entered, disguised as a man by magic art. This time the cannibal hill did not eject him. Imprisoned in the monster's entrails, he saw in the distance the whitened bones of folks who had been devoured, the still undigested bodies of others, and some who were yet alive ... The Myths of the North American Indians

Sioux Myth of Ictinike Son of the Sun God, Giclee Print

Ictinike was the son of the Sun god and a trickster. He invented lies, was cunning, treacherous and is seen as the teacher of the arts of war to the Plains Indians after is father threw him out of heaven.

The Santee Sioux Uprising, Mankato, Minnesota, 1862, Giclee Print

The Dakota War of 1862 was an armed conflict between the US and several bands of the eastern Sioux or Dakota. It began on August 17, 1862, along the Minnesota River in southwest Minnesota and ended with a mass execution of thirty-eight Dakota on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota.

The conflict is also known as Sioux Uprising, Sioux Outbreak of 1862, the Dakota Conflict, the U.S.–Dakota War of 1862, or Little Crow's War.

Sitting Bull Poster

Sitting Bull
“What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am a [Lakota]; because I was born where my father lived; because I would die for my people and my country?”
Sitting Bull, 1877

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Sitting Bull Great Native American Leaders Art Print

Sitting Bull (c. 1831-1890)

Poster Text: “What treaty that the white man ever made with us have they kept? Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world; the sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? ... What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am a Sioux: because I was born where my father lived: because I would die for my people and my country?” Statement

Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux chief and holy man Sitting Bull lead a band of Sioux Indians who resisted all of the U.S. government's attempts to change the way the Sioux traditionally lived. The U.S. government eventually drove Sitting Bull's people out of their homelands around the Black Hills of present-day South Dakota, but not without a fight. In 1876, Sitting Bull's tribe defeated the U.S. government's forces in the Battle of the Little Big Horn, in which Colonel George Armstrong Custer was killed. Sitting Bull's tribe later retreated to Canada. Starving and cold, tribe members surrendered to the U.S. government several years later. Sitting Bull was killed in 1890 when tribal police tried to arrest him at his home on the Standing Rock Reservation.

Red Cloud Great Native American Leaders Art Print

Red Cloud (1822-1909)

Poster Text: “We were told that they [federal troops] wished merely to pass through our country ... to seek for gold in the Far West. ... Yet before the ashes of the council fire are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. You have heard the sound of the white soldier’s axe upon the Little Piney. His presence here is ... an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be plowed for corn? Dakotas, I am for war.”
Speech at council at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, 1866

“Men came out and brought papers. We could not read them and they did not tell us what was in them.”
Red Cloud, 1870

Chief Jack Red Cloud, Sioux, (1862-1928, son of Red Cloud) Art Print / National Archives (photo 1913)

Red Cloud was a war leader of the Oglala Sioux. Throughout the 1860s, Red Cloud defended Sioux hunting grounds in present day Montana and Wyoming. The white settlers, with the help of the U.S. government, could not defeat Red Cloud and his warriors. In 1868, the United States agreed to stop building roads through Red Cloud's Sioux territory. Red Cloud is famous for being the only Indian to win a war with the U.S. government.

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Oglala Chiefs “Red Cloud” and “American Horse” Shake Hands, Pine Ridge, SD, Giclee Print

American Horse
b. 1840; Black Hills, SD
d. 12-16-1908; Pine Ridge, SD

American Horse, the son-in-law of Red Cloud, was one of the signers of the 1887 treaty between the Sioux and US government that reduced the size of the Pine Ridge Reservation, resulting in the Ghost Dance uprising. He also traveled with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

Delegation of Sioux Chiefs, Led by Red Cloud, Photographic Print

The younger American Horse was probably the son or nephew of the elder American Horse who went out with Sitting Bull in the Sioux war and was killed at the Battle of Slim Buttes, 9-29-1875.

A Sioux Medicine Man Offers a Ritual Prayer to the Buffalo, Photographic Print

A Sioux Medicine Man Offers a Ritual Prayer to the Buffalo

Missouri River Where Lewis and Clark Had Their First Meeting with the Sioux Nation, c.1804, Photographic Print

Lewis and Clark