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The Oglala (pronounced [oɡəˈlala], meaning "to scatter one's own" in Lakota language [5]) are one of the seven subtribes of the Lakota people who, along with the Dakota, make up the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Seven Council Fires).
Pine Ridge is the site of several events that mark milestones in the history between the Sioux of the area and the U.S. government. Stronghold Table, a mesa in what is today the Oglala-administered portion of Badlands National Park, was the location of the last of the Ghost Dances.
Oglala Lakota County (known as Shannon County until May 2015) [2] is a county in southwestern South Dakota, United States.As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,672. [3] ...
The Lakota (; Lakota: Lakȟóta/Lakhóta) are a Native American people. Also known as the Teton Sioux (from Thítȟuŋwaŋ), they are one of the three prominent subcultures of the Sioux people, with the Eastern Dakota (Santee) and Western Dakota (Wičhíyena).
Touch the Clouds, photo by James H. Hamilton, Spotted Tail Agency, Nebraska, in the fall of 1877. This is a list of notable people of Lakota ancestry.. Arthur Amiotte (Waŋblí Ta Hóčhoka Wašté) (born 1942), Oglala artist, educator, curator, and author
Publicity had made the site and action an inspiration to American Indians nationally. On March 8, the leaders declared the territory of Wounded Knee to be the independent Oglala Nation and demanded negotiations with the U.S. Secretary of State, William P. Rogers. [21] The nation granted citizenship to those who wanted it, including non-Indians ...
Means was born on November 10, 1939, in Porcupine, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, [1] to Theodora Louise Feather and Walter "Hank" Means. [2] His mother was a Yankton Dakota from Greenwood, South Dakota and his father, an Oglala Lakota. [3]
In 1972 Wilson ran against the incumbent tribal chairman, Gerald One Feather. Before the election, his political connections were largely limited to Pine Ridge due to his years as a councilor, but he campaigned in all parts of the reservation and sought the support of both traditionalists and progressives.