Talk:Okipa

Okipa is currently a Culture, sociology and psychology good article nominee. Nominated by ThaesOfereode (talk) at 15:28, 31 May 2025 (UTC)

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Short description: Native American religious ceremony

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A Mandan Bull Dancer

... that at the end of the Okipa, Bull Dancers of the Mandan tribe (example pictured) had ritual sex with married women and then smoked a "pipe of reconciliation" with their husbands?

Source: Harrod (1995), p. 50: "After the first phase of the dance, the leading woman selected a man from the group, took him by the arm, and led him outside the village. The ritual intercourse of Trickster with dancing buffalo became incarnate in the intercourse between these women and men. At the end of the ritual, the men involved promised to give liberal gifts and to smoke a pipe of reconciliation with the husbands, which the husbands were bound by the norms of the group to accept."

ALT1: ... that during the annual Okipa, the women of the Mandan tribe would steal the massive wooden penis of its trickster spirit? Source: Fenn (2014), p. 127: "One woman seized [the trickster]'s wand and snapped it over her knee. With this, he made a dash for it, racing for the prairie with the women in pursuit. Soon they made a gleeful return, led by the young woman who had disarmed the miscreant. In her arms, she carried his penis [...]"
ALT2: ... that during the Okipa, the young men of the Mandan tribe used buffalo skulls as pillows? Source: Bowers (1950), p. 126: "Each carried in a buffalo skull for a pillow and sage brush for a bed."
ALT3: ... that after six of the thirteen Mandan clans died during the 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic, at least one village continued to call their names during the Okipa? Source: Bowers (1950), p. 114: "[An Okipa officer called Moves Slowly] had heard that the officers from the other village would formerly call the names of thirteen clans, but while at Fort Clark they dropped six extinct clans from the rites."
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Created by ThaesOfereode (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 20 past nominations.

ThaesOfereode (talk) 14:19, 31 May 2025 (UTC).[reply]