Sičháŋǧu

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1. the Burned Thigh Lakota, Brulé; one of the seven tribes of the Lakota.

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   Sičháŋǧu people, according to winter counts and oral history, were initially called Čhokátȟowela -Blue in the Center. However, during the migration west, an enemy tribe set fire to the prairie around the camp, and the people had to run through the fire into the river, and they had burned their thighs as a result, and thus their nickname and later band name became Sičháŋǧu.

   2025, Allen Wilson, Sičháŋǧu Oyáŋke Ektá Lakȟótiyapi Tókeča Kiŋ (The Status of Lakota Language on the Rosebud Reservation), University of Arizona

   Enter Justis Brokenrope: a Sičháŋǧu Lakȟóta archivist, educator and music lover, and the man behind archival project Wathéča Records. Through his love for record hunting and a love for his Native identity, the Twin Cities-based Brokenrope is working to return these pieces of Native American culture to the communities who created them.

   2026 March 12, Malachy Koons, “Archivist Justis Brokenrope unearths long-lost albums by Native musicians”, in KAXE