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Sunday marks 134 years since a "brutal, cold-blooded massacre" of the Indigenous Lakota Sioux people of the Great Plains, a tragedy that drew more scrutiny from the U.S. government in recent months.
Once gold was discovered there, miners moved onto Sioux hunting grounds and sought protection from the U.S. Army, and the U.S. government eventually confiscated the Black Hills in 1877, according ...
The top of it had been decorated with traditional beadwork and an aópazan — Lakota for plume. White Bull is Hunkpapa Lakota of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota.
The Lakota Times was founded in 1981 by journalist Tim Giago (Oglala Lakota). The newspaper was based on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and operated independently of tribal government. [1] In 1989 the newspaper's offices moved to Rapid City, South Dakota, and in 1992 Giago changed the publication's name to Indian Country Today. [2]
January 17, 1891: They Even Fear His Horses at camp of Oglala band of Lakota at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, 3 weeks after the Wounded Knee Massacre, when 153 Lakota Sioux and 25 U.S. soldiers died Oglala Sioux tribal flag. In 1877, some of the Lakota bands signed a treaty that ceded the Black Hills to the United States; however, the nature of ...
Cecilia Fire Thunder, first woman elected as president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe; Tim Giago (1934-2022) Newspaper Publisher, Writer; Brady Jandreau, former rodeo rider and star of The Rider (2017) Kicking Bear (Oglala), chief of the Miniconjou Lakota Sioux tribe. Eddie Little Sky, actor. Little Wound (Taópi Čík'ala: 1835–1899, Oglala).
Wilhelm Meya and the Lakota Language Consortium pledged to preserve a Native American language. Their work set off a battle that led the Standing Rock Sioux to banish them.
Sioux Nation of Indians awarded $105 million to eight tribes of Sioux Indians as compensation ($17.1 million for the market value of the land in 1877 and $88 million in 5% per annum simple interest between 1877 and 1980), [3] [4] but the court did not award land. The tribal governments of the Lakota have refused the settlement. [5]