On the high plains of Western South Dakota (WestRiverSD.com), the technological remnants of old, rusty machines appear often. They have been reported in other midwest states, including Utah, but not with the same frequency. Were they left by the early French explorers? Or even worse, the Lutherans? Or some other trickster?
Lakota mythology is a living belief system, still subscribed to by both Lakota and some outsiders. The myths state that it was Iktomi who would bring the webs across the continents, today, this has come to mean first the telephone network, and finally the internet and world wide web. Iktomi is considered from time immemorial to be the patron of all new technology, from his invention of writing he gave to the people to today's modern inventions. Many Lakota today consider Iktomi to be the god of the Europeans, who seem to readily follow in his bizarre behavior and self entrapping tricks.
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