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Who Are Tokalas?
Many believe that stories about Lakota
Tokalas (Kit Foxes) are legends or ancient history. In reality, these warriors are very
much alive today, still giving their lives to protect their people. Canku Luta was founded
by Tokalas, the oldest warrior society in the northwestern hemisphere.
"In some societies such as the Kit Foxes (Tokala), there
were death-defying men, sashwearers, who, during a battle, pinned their sashes to the
ground as a sign that they would fight it out on the spot until victory or death."
"The Plains Indians still have the most highly ritualized war-story tradition in
North America. The Lakota people have held out from the 1850s through the 1900s in the
longest heroic resistance to the incursion of white armies, and no other tribes have so
carefully recorded the heroic deeds of warriors - on tipis, war shields, embroidery, and
of course, in the body of legends which are told today." (Excerpt of article
by Ray Stark)
A Tokala Story:
"During the night the chief heard the coyote howl four
times. The chief understood and gathered the men of his party together. There some Tokala,
some Kit Fox warriors were there. They sang a Strongheart song:
I am the fox.
I am supposed to die.
I already threw my life away.
I wish to do.
They painted their faces black. They made themselves sacred. They prepared to fight and to
die. They said that it would be a good day for a man to give his life."
-------Excerpt from a story about how Kangi Shunka, Crow Coyote (which the white
census takers misunderstood and made into Crow Dog) got his name - Told by Henry Crow Dog
on Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota, in 1969, and recorded by Richard Erdoes.
Lúta, 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
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