The pipe ceremony is one of the Seven Sacred Rites of the Lakota people.
[1] Lakota tradition has it that White Buffalo Calf Woman brought the chanunpa to the people, as one of the Seven Sacred Rites, to serve as a sacred bridge between this world and Wakan Tanka, the "Great Mystery".
[1][2] The chanunpa is one means of conveying prayers to the Creator and the other sacred beings.
Other nations have their own names for their pipes and ceremonies, in their particular Indigenous languages.
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