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English: Natural Entrance to Wind Cave
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English: NPS Photo
Title
English: Natural Entrance to Wind Cave
Publisher
English: U.S. National Park Service
Description
English:

a small hole in the rock next to the sidewalk

Just outside the visitor center is the largest known natural entrance into Wind Cave. The entrance is only about ten inches wide at most and can be seen even after the visitor center closes. The Lakota call this place Maka Oniye or "breathing earth." This is a very spiritual place to many people. Lakota oral tradition tells of how the first bison and humans emerged from this very entrance. Once the last people left the cave, the Creator shrunk the entrance to its small size so that no one could go back and return to the spirit world.

  • Keywords: natural entrance to wind cave
Depicted place
English: Wind Cave National Park, Custer County, South Dakota
Date Taken on 16 July 2010
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English: NPGallery
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
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English: Landscapes - Park Landscapes

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