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  2. Sioux - Wikipedia

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    In the summer of 2016, Sioux Indians and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe began a protest against construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, also known as the Bakken pipeline, which, if completed, is designed to carry hydrofracked crude oil from the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota to the oil storage and transfer hub of Patoka, Illinois. [115]

  3. Lakota people - Wikipedia

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    However, some tribes have formally or informally adopted traditional names: the Rosebud Sioux Tribe is also known as the Sičháŋǧu Oyáte (Brulé Nation), and the Oglala often use the name Oglála Lakȟóta Oyáte, rather than the English "Oglala Sioux Tribe" or OST. (The alternate English spelling of Ogallala is deprecated, even though it ...

  4. Modern social statistics of Native Americans - Wikipedia

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    The tribe with the largest population base, for 2008, was the tribe of Navajo people with 307,555 individuals. The Cherokee tribe had the second largest population, with 262,224 individuals. Follow in third and fourth are the Sioux tribe and Chippewa tribe with 114,047 individuals and 107,322 individuals, respectively.

  5. Staffing and funding problems leave tribal child welfare ...

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    The Rosebud Sioux Tribe applied for direct funding, but as of April, hadn’t moved forward with implementation of the program, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

  6. Oglala - Wikipedia

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    It was previously called the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. However, many Oglala reject the term " Sioux " due to the hypothesis (among other possible theories ) that its origin may be a derogatory word meaning "snake" in the language of the Ojibwe , who were among the historical enemies of the Lakota.

  7. Great Sioux Reservation - Wikipedia

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    Map of the Great Sioux Reservation Archived 23 April 2014 at the Wayback Machine, adapted from Handbook of North American Indians: Plains, vol. 13, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution "New Lands for Settlers – The Great Sioux Reservation in Southern Dakota to Be Thrown Open", The New York Times, 10 February 1883. Accessed November 2009

  8. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem banned from visiting land of ...

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    The Standing Rock Sioux, Cheyenne River Sioux, Rosebud Sioux, and Oglala Sioux Tribes have all moved to banish the governor from their lands. In an email to CNN, Yankton Sioux Council Member Ryan ...

  9. Dakota people - Wikipedia

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    The Dakota (pronounced , Dakota: Dakȟóta or Dakhóta) are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government in North America. They compose two of the three main subcultures of the Sioux people, and are typically divided into the Eastern Dakota and the Western Dakota.