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  • We even built this sweat lodge in the grasslands and had an inipi, which was way cool.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • We even built this sweat lodge in the grasslands and had an inipi, which was way cool.

    No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010

  • According to the recognized and respected wicasa wakan (holy men) of the Sioux Nation, the Tunka Oyate (Spiritual Grandfathers) know and understand the Native tongues of the Sioux people and any inipi ceremony without this ingredient is no ceremony at all.

    Tim Giago: What good are the ceremonies if they cannot save a people? 2009

  • I am not going to dance around the consequences of Arthur Ray's stupidity because he was blatantly using a religious ceremony of the Native Americans to enrich himself and what is worse, he didn't know any of the sacred rites that accompany the inipi nor did he know the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota language, an intricate part of the ceremony.

    Tim Giago: What good are the ceremonies if they cannot save a people? 2009

  • In the searing heat of the inipi, my Grandfather sang.

    SMITH Magazine Superfeed 2010

  • In the searing heat of the inipi, my Grandfather sang.

    SMITH Magazine Superfeed 2010

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  • Seen here: the Lakota word for a ritual of being reborn or rejuvenated.

    October 15, 2009