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Lakota Equine by RaptorArts

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Lakota Equine

RaptorArts

This is #4 in my series of Anthropomorphic illustrations for my senior semester. Its symbolic of the Lakota Indians who lost their land and heritage to the settlers. This one is "Tashunke Witko" and hes trying to hold onto whats left of their land but its slipping through his fingers. Lots of symbolism.

This took around 12 hours.

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    DarkHorse

    Oh this is good. I love the face

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    StormEngineer

    Greetings!

    Since you are depicting Tashunke Witko (his native name), let me add a little correction. His name is NOT "Crazy Horse". That is a mistranslation originating form white men who didn't properly understand the language. The proper meaning of his name is "His horse is crazy". "Horse" in Lakotah is shunkawakan [Literally translating "scared/grand dog", since they have not seen horses before the Spanish brought them there - as they extinct from the Americas long before - and had no word for them], and tashunke is possessive ("his horse"), so "Crazy Horse" would be Shunkawakan Witko.

    This is one of several cases of Lakotah (or generally Native American, for the matter) names/words/concepts being mistranslated by white men, and then brought to international use in its mistranslated form. Another particularly famous one is Wakan Tanka, which was intentionally mistranslated by the Christian missionaries to "Great Spirit", so that they can forcefully make a connection between Christianity and the native beliefs. In fact, Wakan Tanka translates as "Great Mistery", and does NOT denote a single being, but in fact, a whole order of spirits.

    Best wishes,
    Storm

    P.s.: I have no connection to Native Americans, I am just particularly interested in Lakotah language and culture.

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      RaptorArts

      Wow Thank You for the information. :) Ive corrected his name. Its nice to know the real facts behind the history. A great book that was written is "How the west was lost". I wish they would have that be in the history classes of schools but unfortunately they don't want kids learning about what really happened.