Anpao

{{Short description|Spirit in Sioux mythology}}

In Sioux mythology (Indigenous American mythological tradition that includes Lakota mythology), Anpao (Lakota: Aŋpáo{{cite book|last1=Ingham|first1=Bruce|title=English–Lakota Dictionary|date=2001|publisher=Curzon Press|location=Richmond, Surrey, UK|isbn=0-7007-1378-6|page=167|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6SxTAQAAQBAJ&q=anpao+dawn&pg=PA167|accessdate=23 February 2015}}), or Anp, is a spirit with two faces that represents the dawn.

Anpao dances with Han, a primordial spirit of darkness, to ensure that Wi does not burn up the Earth, resulting in day and night.

George Bushotter (Yankton Dakota-Lakota, 1860–1892) wrote that when his younger brother was ill, the brother was told to pray to Anpao, the Dawn, and recovered.{{cite book | last = Powell | first = John W. | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=D90KAQAAIAAJ&q=ungava+anpao&pg=PA468 | title = Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology: 1889-'90 | location = Washington DC | publisher = Smithsonian Institution | year = 1894 | page = 468}}

Anpao zi is the "yellow of the dawn", which oral history described as the meadowlark's breast.{{cite book | editor1-last = Swann | editor1-first = Brian | editor2-first = Arnold | editor2-last = Krupat | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=aGiqSYX5ftQC&q=anpao+-Odyssey+dawn&pg=PA434 | title = Recovering the Word: Essays on Native American Literature | location = Berkeley | publisher = University of California Press | year = 1987 | isbn = 0-520-05964-6 | page = 434}}