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The Western Dakota are the Yankton, and the Yanktonai (Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋ and Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna; "Village-at-the-end" and "Little village-at-the-end"), who reside in the Upper Missouri River area. The Yankton-Yanktonai are collectively also referred to by the endonym Wičhíyena ('Those Who Speak Like Men').
Considered the Western Dakota, they have in the past been erroneously classified as Nakota. [2] Nakota are the Assiniboine and Stoney of Western Canada and Montana. The Lakota, also called Teton (Thítȟuŋwaŋ; possibly "dwellers on the prairie"), are the westernmost Sioux, known for their Plains Indians hunting and warrior culture. With the ...
The Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota is a federally recognized tribe of Yankton Western Dakota people, located in South Dakota. Their Dakota name is Ihaƞktoƞwaƞ Dakota Oyate, meaning "People of the End Village" which comes from the period when the tribe lived at the end of Spirit Lake just north of Mille Lacs Lake. [5] [6] [7]
The Dakotas, also known as simply Dakota, is a collective term for the U.S. states of North Dakota and South Dakota. It has been used historically to describe the Dakota Territory , and is still used for the collective heritage, [ 2 ] culture, geography, [ 3 ] fauna, [ 4 ] sociology, [ 5 ] economy, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and cuisine [ 8 ] of the two states.
Prairie Republic: The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879–1889. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806141107. OCLC 455419815. Lauck, Jon. "The Old Roots of the New West: Howard Lamar and the Intellectual Origins of ‘Dakota Territory.’" Western Historical Quarterly 39#3 (2008), pp. 261–81. online; Waldo, Edna La Moore (1936 ...
The Sihásapa lived in the western Dakotas on the Great Plains, and consequently are among the Plains Indians. Their official residence today is the Standing Rock Reservation [ 1 ] in North and South Dakota and the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota, home also to the Itazipco (No Bows), the Minneconjou (People Who Live Near Water) and ...
Theodore Roosevelt National Park is a national park of the United States in the badlands of western North Dakota comprising three geographically separated areas. This park pays homage to the time that Theodore Roosevelt spent in the surrounding area and in the Dakota Territories before they were states. Roosevelt lived in the area after his ...
Today, the Lakota are found mostly in the five reservations of western South Dakota: Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home of the Oglála, the most numerous of the Lakota bands. Rosebud Indian Reservation, home of the Upper Sičhánǧu or Brulé. Lower Brule Indian Reservation, home of the Lower Sičhaŋǧu.