Then the Grand Council went out in a body to seek the Wakan Rock.
Get your straws," was Woodpecker's reply, as he returned from putting the scraps on the Wakan Rock.
Seems to me the Wakan Rock will be a good place to try.
This wakan man is usually some old and experienced zuya wakan or sacred war leader.
It was also ordained that the sack should contain four species of medicines of wakan qualities, which should represent fowls, medicinal herbs, medicinal trees, and quadrupeds.
These gods have power to send from their bodies a wakan influence which is irresistible even by the superior gods.
This is the excuse urged when an ordinary person succeeds in wounding a wakan man.
Pond asserts that “evidence is wanting to show that these people divide their Taku-wakan into classes of good and evil.
A young man’s war weapons are wakan and must not be touched by a woman.
Except the head, each of these wakan sentinels is enveloped in scarlet down of the most extraordinary beauty.
Lynd says: Certain men profess to have an unusual amount of the wakan or divine principle in them.
The spear and the tomahawk being prepared and consecrated, the person who is to receive them approaches the wakan man and presents a pipe to him.
From this combination proceeds a wakan influence so powerful that no human being, unassisted, can resist it.
Immediately after the production of the earth and men, the Unkteḣi gave the Indians the mystery sack and instituted the Wakan waćipi or mystery dance.
They are invested with the invisible wakan powers of the gods, their knowledge and cunning, and their omnipresent influence over mind, instinct, and passions.
Carver's Cave at St. Paul was also called Wakan Teepee, because the Medicine-men or magicians often held their dances and feasts in it.
She then sees Migwan's costume with the four Wakan honors for Written Thought.
Thus the crow was the scout of this chief, whose reputation as a Wakan (Holy man) soon reached all of the different tribes.
The Dakotas had no Wakan Tanka or Wakan-peta--fire spirit--till white men imported them.
Carvers Cave at St. Paul was also called Wakan Teepee because the Medicine-men or magicians often held their dances and feasts in it.
In battle "every Dacotah warrior looks to the Wakan man as almost his only resource".
The Wakan man's functions are absorbed by the general or war-chief of the tribe, and in Schoolcraft (iv.
Belief in Wakan men is, Mr. Pond says, universal among the Dacotahs, except where Christianity has undermined it.
The wakan is the cause of all the movements which take place in the universe.
Owing to the preponderating place thus assigned to this principle in the Siouan pantheon, it is sometimes regarded as a sort of sovereign god, or a Jupiter or Jahveh, and travellers have frequently translated wakan by "great spirit.
The wakan repels all personification and consequently it is hardly probable that it has ever been thought of in its abstract generality with the aid of such definite symbols.
Yet it does not seem that the notion of churinga has the same clarity and precision as that of the mana in Melanesia or of the wakanamong the Sioux.
The wakan is in no way a personal being; the natives do not represent it in a determined form.
Now if there is a possibility that there was a time when these specializations of the wakan bore witness to such an affinity for an animal form, that would be one more proof of the close bonds uniting this conception to the totemic beliefs.
Now among these peoples, we find, under the name of mana, an idea which is the exact equivalent of the wakan of the Sioux and the orenda of the Iroquois.
Among the Iroquois, whose social organization has an even more pronouncedly totemic character, this, same idea is found again; the word orenda which expresses it is the exact equivalent of the wakan of the Sioux.
In fact, the wakan plays the same role in the world, as the Sioux conceives it, as the one played by the forces with which science explains the diverse phenomena of nature.
In other words, the wakan (for this is what he was talking about) comes and goes through the world, and sacred things are the points upon which it alights.
Many observers cited by Dorsey identify the word wakan with the words wakanda and wakanta, which are derived from it, but which really have a more precise signification.
In 1900, Marrett showed the existence of a religious phase which he called preanimistic, in which the rites are addressed to impersonal forces like the Melanesian mana and the wakan of the Omaha and Dakota.
Likewise, the Dakota of Miss Fletcher represented the wakan as a sort of surrounding force which is always coming and going through the world, alighting here and there, but definitely fixing itself nowhere.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wakan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
