Honoring Youth
Through Native Heritage
By Mark Thiel

Heartland Tribes

These honor ceremony guidelines are general and outline the key features used by tribes and intertribal urban communities in America's heartland (Plains and adjacent areas). To a lesser extent, they pertain to other groups farther east and west with details varying from tribe to tribe and according to specific circumstances.

•     Colorado: Ute

•     Iowa: Mesquakie (Sauk and Fox)

•     Kansas: Potawatomi

•     Michigan: Ojibwa (Chippewa), Ottawa, Potawatomi

•     Minnesota: Dakota (Sioux) Ojibwa (Chippewa)

•     Montana: Assiniboine, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Crow, Lakota (Sioux)

•     Nebraska: Ho-Chunk (Winnebago), Omaha, Ponca

•     North Dakota: Arikara/Hidatsa/Mandan, Dakota/Lakota (Sioux)

•     Oklahoma: Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Delaware, Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, Mesquakie (Sauk and Fox), Ojibwa (Chippewa), Omaha, Oto/Missouria, Ottawa, Ponca, Potawatomi

•     South Dakota: Lakota (Sioux)

•     Wisconsin: Ho-Chunk (Winnebago), Menominee, Mohican (Stockbridge-Munsee), Ojibwa (Chippewa), Potawatomi

•     Wyoming: Arapaho, Shoshoni