Oglalan author James LaPointe published traditional Lakotan narratives in his 1976 book, Legends of the Lakota. Several of them relate to stars, including one about how the culture hero, Fallen Star, saved the lives of seven Lakotan girls by imploring a small mound of earth to rise into the sky, thereby thwarting a pack of bears that had surrounded the girls and were closing in to eat them. That landmark was thereafter called Mato Tipila. Oglalan artist and historian Amos Bad Heart Bull used that name on his late 1800s map. All the earliest non-Indian maps use the English translation,...

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