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Paha Sapa - the Sacred Black Hills
Meet your guide for your own journey to the Heart of Everything That Is - the Sacred Black Hills of the Lakota Nation. Visit Wind Cave, the place of the Lakota genesis to learn the real story beyond the mainstream geology presented to tourists; how the trickster Inktomi first convinced humans into coming above ground. Then explore in the seventy-three thousand acre State Park area that was named for Custer when his expedition first discovered gold in 1874. Understand the significance of the area to the Lakota people - its first inhabitants. This area is home to freely roaming buffalo, antelope, deer and wild sheep, so take your camera and binoculars. Optional hike on Hinhan Kaga Paha known as Harney Peak, the highest point in the Black Hills, to hear of Black Elk’s experience.
Maco Sica - the Badlands
The incredible landscape of Mako Sika - the Badlands - is a vast geologic wonder where erosion has carved a landscape of spectacular canyons and saw-tooth ridges to some, but to others, the Lakota, this was a place of refuge to those who knew how to survive and find the ‘Stronghold’. Hear traditional stories, learn of traditional lifeways, and wend your way through historic sites and ancient trails. Wildlife abounds even amid the barren towering, multihued precipice of sedimentary rock which stretches over 60 miles and if you are lucky you may even experience the earth-shaking movement of the badland’s buffalo – several hundred live within the area. Our guides are accomplished traditional Lakota musicians. Hear timeless native melodies played just for you. Is this is a family trip? Request Sequoia - for his guitar and Native Flute.
Mato Tipila - Devil's Tower
Known to non-Indians as Devil’s Tower to hear tribal explanations of the sacred rock’s creation, and its mirror-image in the stars; how the seven little girls escaped the bear to shine eternally as Pleiades. Although many focus on Devil’s tower as a venue for rock climbing and family picnics, our focus is it’s importance as a historic and sacred Sundance site. This day you have opportunity to circumnavigate the great rock on an easy hike, but we also visit a couple of sites most miss. If you are interested in Native American flute music, please let us know when you book your day - our guides are able to play the wood flute for you and as traditional melodies are carried on the wind in the way they have for centuries you realise you truly stand in the land known as Native America.
(Yes, this is across the border in Wyoming, but most folks going to South Dakota don't want to miss this place!)
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More great day tours in the Bighorns region - Wyoming and Montana
Crazy Horse and Crook at the Rosebud - The precursive battle to the Little Bighorn - a victory to the Cheyennes and also provided thr theatre for one of the greatest acts of bravery in Cheyenne history
The Sacred Deer Medicine Rocks - site of the Great Sundance prior to the Little Bighorn where Sitting Bull's vision of victory with soldiers falling upside down with no ears into camp, is carved into the rocks
Disaster at the Wagon Box - Lakota and Cheyennes couldn't have imagined the coming of Henry Repeating rifles, and this new technology brought disaster. 'Watch' events through their eyes.
The Northern Cheyenne Reservation Cuture tour - a foray into the historical and contemporary! Visit showplaces of Cheyenne heritage and art. Explore and enjoy the reservation landscape.
The Little Bighorn - The most famous battle in the history of the West! Uniquely the vanquished keep the glory ...but not on our tours. Hear ALL sides.
Locals call it the Great Mystery, but maybe they don't know who to ask? After a short trailed hike to this site, learn the explanation.
Search for descendents of Cheyenne & Crow pony herds, still free roaming in the Priors. Hear amazing stories of survival!
Was it really a massacre? This was a victory for Cheyenne and Lakota military societies, won by tactics and implementation of strategy to stop an invasion.
Tour time: approx 10am-5pm
Starting point: Most tours begin in Rapid City. Other starting points are possible, for example in the Black Hills
Cost: $175pp (2 person minimum)
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Tour time: approx 10am-5pm
Starting point: Most tours begin in Rapid City. Other starting points are possible, sometimes in Wall or the Cedar Pass Lodge at Interior.
Cost: $175pp (2 person minimum)
To check your dates for availability , please click here
Tour time: approx 10am-5pm
Starting point: Most tours begin at the Holiday Inn Rushmore Plaza, Rapid City. Other starting points are possible. Please discuss plans with Sarah
Cost: $175pp (2 person minimum)
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Tour Members Say...
The sights, sounds, smells and sheer wonderment at the beauty of all directions has been with us ever since our return. Not a day goes by without our talking of some aspect of our adventure, and at night I am transported to those stunning plains and mountains, and the people we met. Gretchen, North Wales
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If you look at the earth, there are certain places that seem to have power and we don't know what kind of power it is, except you have a different feeling, You feel energized... For most Americans, the Holy Land exists on another continent. But for Native people,
the holy land is here.
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