Buffalo Dreams, Lakota, Black Hills Canku Luta Hoodie

Buffalo Dreams

Return to the Black Hills

Hooded Sweatshirt

This sweatshirt was created from two 100 year old photographs, showing buffalo in the Black Hills; also a Lakota on horseback....a look at how it was in South Dakota 100 years ago.

The left sleeve has the Canku Luta (Red Road) logo.

The proceeds of this shirt benefit projects for Canku Luta (Red Road).

This shirt was created by Wika Luta Cane, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, under the direction of Kenneth Cane, Chairman of Canku Luta and also an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.

Canku Luta, in the language of the Lakota people, means Red Road. The Red Road is the Good Road of Life, the path that we aspire to walk with our children and their children, and ALL OUR RELATIONS.

Canku Luta, founded by Tokalas,  is a grassroots movement consisting of American Indians and non-Indians committed to the preservation of American Indian customs and culture. The organization promotes the social welfare of American Indians through education and direct services when necessary and appropriate.

Such services include providing food, materials for home repairs, and opportunities for self-employment among grassroots American Indian Peoples. Red Road, Inc. also educates about the practice of ceremonies and medicine of the Laws of Nature which are ancient, traditional, spiritual ways (including language, religion, livelihood and nationhood) as taught by traditional headsmen and elders of all spiritual levels. The teaching of such practices serves to demonstrate the intimate interrelationship of persons and communities with their natural environment.