The Living Experience of Suffering: Lakota Voices

Abstract

Suffering, as a universal humanuniverse living experience, was explored utilizing the Parsesciencing mode of inquiry. Ten Lakota historians engaged in discussion to answer the question, “What is your experience of suffering?” The discovery revealed the discerning extant moment of suffering as follows: Suffering is burdening anguish amid uplifting aspirations surfacing in persevering with divergent encounters.