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The chief usually referred to today as Shakopee I was known to American explorers and Indian agents as the third-highest ranking leader of the Mdewakanton Dakota, after Chief Wabasha II and Chief Little Crow I. [1] He was the chief of a band of Mdewakanton Sioux called the Taoapa [2] and they had the largest village on the Minnesota River, located in the 1820s on the river's north bank, later ...
The Sioux Wars were a series of conflicts between the United States and various subgroups of the Sioux people which occurred in the later half of the 19th century. The earliest conflict came in 1854 when a fight broke out at Fort Laramie in Wyoming, when Sioux warriors killed 31 American soldiers in the Grattan Massacre, and the final came in 1890 during the Ghost Dance War.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota controls the Standing Rock Reservation (Lakota: Íŋyaŋ Woslál Háŋ), which across the border between North and South Dakota in the United States, and is inhabited by ethnic "Hunkpapa and Sihasapa bands of Lakota Oyate and the Ihunktuwona and Pabaksa bands of the Dakota Oyate," [4] as well as the Hunkpatina Dakota (Lower Yanktonai). [5]
Sioux Indian police lined up on horseback in front of Pine Ridge Agency buildings, Dakota Territory, August 9, 1882 Great Sioux Reservation, 1888; established by Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) The Great Sioux War of 1876 , also known as the Black Hills War, was a series of battles and negotiations that occurred in 1876 and 1877 between the ...
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 ...
The scouts and the Sioux opened fire on each other and the battle began. [8] Sibley estimated that he faced 1,000 to 1,500 Indian warriors. They took cover behind hills and in ravines. Sibley sent forward two companies of Mounted Rangers to drive the Indians away from Big Mound and supported them with more soldiers and a six-pounder cannon.
George Elmer Hyde (1882–1968) was the "Dean of American Indian Historians." [1] He wrote many books about Indian tribes, especially the Sioux and Pawnee plus a life of the Cheyenne warrior and historian, George Bent.
Sioux Nation of Indians to award US$122 million to eight bands of Sioux Indians as compensation for their Black Hills land claims. The Sioux have refused the money, because accepting the settlement would legally terminate their demands for return of the Black Hills. The money remains in a Bureau of Indian Affairs account, accruing compound ...