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The Great Sioux Reservation was 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 ...
Black Bear was born on December 10 on the Rosebud Indian Reservation as the third child of eleven children. [5] [1] She was baptized the day after her birth as Matilda Laura Black Bear, and raised Catholic. [2] Her Lakota name, Wa Wokiye Win, means "woman who helps everyone." [6] [1] She was a citizen of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and Sicangu ...
Matika Wilbur photographed members of every federally recognized Native American tribe. She named the series Project 562 for the number of recognized tribes at the time.
Lyda Conley (Wyandot, 1874–1946), first Native American female attorney, and first Native American woman admitted to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Wyandot Nation activist and attorney; Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Crow Creek Sioux poet and novelist; Hilda Coriz, Kewa Pueblo potter; Cuhtahlatah, 18th-century Cherokee heroine
Map showing the boundaries of the 1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux land cession area (Royce Area 289) With the creation of Minnesota Territory by the U.S. in 1849, the Eastern Dakota (Sisseton, Wahpeton, Mdewakanton, and Wahpekute) people were pressured to cede more of their land.
The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe is made up of four of the traditional seven bands of the Lakota Nation. The four bands included are the Plants by the Water or Mnicoujou, Sans Arc or Itazipco, Black Foot or Sihasapa, and Two Kettles or Oohenumpa. The reservation is the fourth largest Indian Reservation in the United States, at 1.4 million acres. [4]
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