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Lakota
Sioux, 1891,
John Graybill
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Sometimes also spelled
"Lakhota,” this group consists of seven tribes who were known as warriors
and
buffalo-hunters. Sometimes called the Tetons, meaning "prairie
dwellers,” the seven tribes include:
-
Ogalala ("they scatter
their own," or "dust scatterers")
-
Sicangu or Brule
("Burnt Thighs")
-
Hunkpapa ("end of the
circle"),
-
Miniconjou ("planters
beside the stream"),
-
Sihasapa or Blackfoot
(Ntote confused with the separate Blackfoot tribe)
-
Itazipacola (or Sans
Arcs: "without bows")
-
Oohenupa ("Two
Boilings" or "Two Kettle")
This band migrated west
from Minnesota
after the tribe began to use horses. There were about 20,000
Lakota
in the mid 18th century, a number which has increased to about 70,000
today, of which approximately 1/3 still speak their ancestral language.
The
Lakota
were located in
Minnesota when Europeans began to explore and settle the land in the
1600s. Living on small game, deer, and wild rice, they were
surrounded by large rival tribes. Conflict with their enemy, the
Ojibwa eventually forced the Lakota to move west. By the 1700s, the
Lakota
had acquired horses and flourished hunting
buffalo on the high plains of
Wisconsin, Iowa, the Dakotas, and as far north as Canada. The Tetons, the largest of the
Lakota
tribes dominated the region.
As white settlers
continued to push west onto
Sioux lands
and multiple treaties were made and broken, the
Sioux
retaliated, resulting in three major wars and numerous other battles and
skirmishes.
Continued Next Page
Also See:
The Great Sioux
Nation
Myths & Legends of the
Sioux
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