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In July 1873, a month before the massacre, the Oglala Sioux had been stopped from attacking the Utes in retaliation for stolen horses and the killing of a Sioux man by Antoine Janis, the sub-agent for the band. [18]: 232 Map with Massacre Canyon battlefield (1873), Nebraska. Pawnee reservation and relevant Lakota territories.
The town of Whiteclay, Nebraska (just over the South Dakota-Nebraska border), previously had approximately 12 residents and four liquor stores, which sold over 4.9 million 12-ounce cans of beer in 2010 almost exclusively to Oglala Lakota from the reservation (nearly 170 cans per person). The Whiteclay liquor stores were shut down by the state ...
A majority of the Oglala live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the eighth-largest Native American reservation in the United States. The Oglala are a federally recognized tribe whose official title is the Oglala Lakota Nation. It was previously called the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.
All of north-central Nebraska between the Platte River and the South Dakota border. Arapaho and Cheyenne 1861 All of southwestern and some of west-central Nebraska south of the North Platte River. Omaha 1865 A small parcel of land compromising 1/4 of their reservation. Lakota 1875 All of west-central Nebraska north of the North Platte River. Pawnee
Lakota activists such as Madonna Thunder Hawk and Chase Iron Eyes, along with the Lakota People's Law Project, have alleged that Lakota grandmothers are illegally denied the right to foster their own grandchildren. They are working to redirect federal funding away from the state of South Dakota's D.S.S. to new tribal foster care programs.
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 ] Oglala Lakota County does not have a functioning county seat ; Hot Springs in neighboring Fall River County serves as its administrative center. [ 1 ]
Chadron also is the United States Forest Service headquarters of the Nebraska and Samuel R. McKelvie National Forests, and the Buffalo Gap, Fort Pierre, and Oglala National Grasslands. The Museum of the Fur Trade is located near Chadron, at the site of the American Fur Company's former Bordeaux Trading Post.
Great Sioux Reservation (1868) and other Sioux lands as interpreted by 1978 Indian Claims Commission. 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]