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The Great Sioux War of 1876, also known as the Black Hills War, was a series of battles and negotiations that occurred in 1876 and 1877 between the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and the United States. The cause of the war was the desire of the U.S. government to obtain ownership of the Black Hills.
The Great Sioux Reservation is an Indian reservation created by the United States through treaty with the Sioux , principally the Lakota, who dominated the territory before its establishment. [1] In the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, the reservation included lands west of the Missouri River in South Dakota and Nebraska, including all of present ...
Santee Sioux Reservation. Traditional location of Sioux tribes prior to 1770 (dark green) and their current reservations (orange). The Santee Sioux Reservation (Dakota: Isáŋyathi) of the Santee Sioux (also known as the Eastern Dakota) was established in 1863 in present-day Nebraska. The tribal seat of government is located in Niobrara ...
Lakota people. The Lakota ([laˈkˣota]; 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). Their current lands are in North and South Dakota.
Siouxland. Siouxland is a vernacular region that encompasses the entire Big Sioux River drainage basin in the U.S. states of South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa. [1] The demonym for a resident of Siouxland is Siouxlander. A "vernacular region" is a distinctive area where the inhabitants collectively consider themselves interconnected by ...
Oglala. 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). A majority of the Oglala live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the eighth-largest Native ...
The Treaty of Fort Laramie (also the Sioux Treaty of 1868[ b ]) is an agreement between the United States and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brulé bands of Lakota people, Yanktonai Dakota, and Arapaho Nation, following the failure of the first Fort Laramie treaty, signed in 1851. The treaty is divided into 17 articles.
Area code. 701. GDP. $191.9 Million (2018) Website. standingrock.org. The Standing Rock Reservation (Lakota: Íŋyaŋ Woslál Háŋ) lies across the border between North and South Dakota in the United States, and is inhabited by ethnic " Hunkpapa and Sihasapa bands of Lakota Oyate and the Ihunktuwona and Pabaksa bands of the Dakota Oyate," [4 ...