What were the Sioux beliefs?

Answer 1

The Sioux believed that they were from the sacred land just like the animals and plants and they felt as if the land was their mother.

So if they ploughed the land it was as if the ripped of their mother's breast.

Answer 2

The Sioux people believed that human beings, animals, and trees were all created by the Mother Earth. They believed the Wakan Tanka, the Great Spirit, created the universe, and yet was the universe. The Sun, the Moon, the Stars, the Earth, the very rocks, and the human soul were all creations of the Wakan Tanka.

Answer 3

ANSWER

There is the ghost dance

ANSWER

The Sioux, like most native American people, didn't and don't have a specific religion like people do in much of the rest of the world. They had and still have a spirituality which was an integral part of their everyday culture, and based upon respect for and being a part of their environment: the land, the mountains, the plants, the trees, the water, the animals, and their family. They did have ceremonies, dances, etc, but these were not religious observances so much as cultural expressions.

The concept of family extended in one way or another beyond the tipi to the camp, the band, and to the entire Siouxan nation which once extended from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. It's not likely that you could walk into a Sioux community and be permitted to join the tribe, although it has happened infrequently that a tribe will adopt an outsider after a long period of getting to know them so well that they become accepted as family.

Similarly, there's no Sioux religion that you can sign up for like you can Catholicism or Lutheranism or Judaism. The Siouxan spirituality is something that you almost have to be born into, as with any other native American tribe.

As an illustration of how different religion and native American spirituality are, there are many native Americans who are members of Christian denominations and still hold onto their tribal sprirituality with no conflict or compromise between the two.

Answer 4

All native American Indians believe that one day a white god would once again come and visit them. It is recorded in their lore that he appeared to their ancestors many years ago.As time passed they fell away from his teachings, but the fact remains that he will return and make them a great people or nation. Their skin will be made white and they will be a dedicated and wholesome people.

Answer 5

They had their own special god called Wakan Tanka and the happy hunting ground was there heaven. They believed that everything was sacred from the largest mountain to the smallest plant and animal. The Sioux tribe believed in the shaman (medicine man). His role was to show the boys turning into men there grown up name by reading their visions and hallucinations. The way that they got their visions was by going for days with no eating. They also Communicated with the spirits and cured illnesses.The Medicine Wheel symbolizes the belief is that the shape of the wheel represents the circle of life and death, which is considered never ending and most importantly represents the Great Spirit and Grandfather. The Medicine Wheel was only to be used by a Holy or Medicine Man. The Scalp dance was the victory dance that was performed after a great victory in war to celebrate and thank the spirits for their help. The buffalo dance was when they would perform a dance to get the spirit world to call the buffalo closer to the tribe. The Sun Dance was used to get help or guidance from the spirit world. It was believed that the more you hurt yourself, the more the spirits would look upon the tribe with pleasure.

Answer 6

Native Americans did not have religion. Only spirituality and their spirituality is their way of life. The upper plains natives Sun Dance and believe in the Creator of all.