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Wounded Knee Pictorial

Littlebig Horn Pictorial

Famous Natives of the Past

Abby Stewart

People of Turtle Island

SHORT STORIES

My Death

First Encounter

Old Man and the Boy

Grey Wolf

Sun Dance

Wounded Knee

Sweat Lodge

Ghost Shirt

Rides Beneath The Hawk

Wolf In The Heart

Last Journey Together

The Story Of White Owl

Morning Clouds Story

Wolf Society

The Sand Creek Massacre

The White Buffalo Calf Pipe

The Battle Within

The Drum

This Land

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Education Section

The Lakota

Face and Body Painting 1

Face and Body Painting 2

Family Tree

Lakota Words 1

Lakota Words 2

The Pipe

Native American Quotes

The Horse

The Buffalo

Warfare

The Sun Dance

Life and Death

Lakota Word Index

Little Bighorn

The Decline of the Plains Indian

Present Day People of Turtle Island

Reservations

Winter Counts

Sites

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This table shows the make up of the Oceti Shakowain.

   The Lakota are one of the three groups of the great Oceti Sakowin (pronounced Och-et-ee shak-oh-win and meaning Seven Council Fires.) Nation. Usually known as Sioux. There are seven tribes of the Lakota: (Lakota meaning friends or allies.) Hunkpapa; (pronounced Hoonk-pa-pa or oonk-pa-pa meaning Camps At The Entrance.) Sicangu; (pronounced She-chan-goo meaning Burnt Thighs, often known as the Brule.) Itazipco; (pronounced Eet-az-eep-cho meaning Without Bows, often known as the Sans Arcs.) Minniconjou; (pronounced Min-nee-con-zhoo meaning Plants By The Water.) Oohenumpa; (pronounced Ooh-en-oom-pa meaning Two Kettles.) Sihasapa; (pronounced She-ha-sha-pa meaning Blackfoot, not to be confused with the Blackfoot Tribe.) Oglala; (pronounced Og-la-la sometimes pronounced Og-a-la-la meaning Scatters Their Own.) Some of their most famous leaders were Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, Sitting Buffalo Bull, Rain in the Face, Gall and Crow King.

 

The three divisions with the Lakota most western and the Dakota most eastern geographically.

Pine Ridge is home to the Oglala Lakota who are members of a major Sioux division known as the Western or Teton Sioux. Pine Ridge has a tribal membership that totals 17,775. One third of the total population report Lakota as their first language.

 

 


Lakota

(Teton)


Dakota

(Santee)

 


Nakota

(Yankton)

 

Hunkpapa

 

Itazipco

 

Minniconjou

 

Oglala

 

Oohenumpa

 

Sicangu

 

Sihasapa

Lone Horn

He was also known as One Horn (Ha-wón-je-tah,) c.1790 to 1875, born in present day South Dakota. He was chief to the Minneconjou. He was father to Big Foot and Touch the Clouds, and was uncle of Crazy Horse. He participated in the signing of the Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868.

Lone Horn died peacefully at the Cheyenne River. After Lone Horn's death in 1875, his son Big Foot became the chief.

 

 

Mwedankton

 

  Wahpekute  

 

Wahpeton  

 

Sisseton

Chief Little Crow
(Sioux: Ta-oya-te-duta)

He was a chief of the Mwedankton Dakota Sioux. His given name meant "His Red Nation," but he became known as Little Crow because of his father's name, Cetan Wakuwa Mani, (literally, "Hawk that chases/hunts walking") which was mistranslated.

Little Crow is notable in American history for his role in the negotiation of the Treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota of 1851, in which he agreed to the movement of his band of the Dakota to a reservation near the Minnesota River in exchange for goods and certain other rights. However, the government reneged on its promises to provide food and annuities to the tribe, and Little Crow was forced to support the decision of a Dakota war council in 1862 to pursue war to drive out the whites from Minnesota. Little Crow participated in the Dakota War of 1862, but retreated in September 1862 before the war's conclusion in December 1862. Little Crow was killed on July 3, 1863 by a settler who wished to collect the bounty given to any person who killed a Dakota in Minnesota.

 

 

Yankton

 

Yanktonai

 

Wanata

Wa-na-ta was a chief of the Yanktonai, a tribe of the Sioux, which means “fern leaf.” He was born around 1795. The Yanktonai were located near the St. Peter River, which is today known as the Minnesota River. The Yanktonai were said to have a population between five and six thousand individuals with 1,300 warriors. Wanata was a very influential chief, as evidenced by his ability to lead his tribes’1,300 warriors into battle.

At age 18, Wanata was accustomed to the ways of war and fought under his father Red Thunder (then the chief of the Yanktonai) against the Americans in the War of 1812. Wanata was recruited by the British, a Colonel Dixon, whom convinced him to join him in battle at Sandusky. During this battle, Wanata charged Fort Sandusky and was wounded, but earned himself the nickname “Charger.”

After the war Wanata sided with the Americans and even helped influence trade on the Missouri River. He was murdered by his own people who were upset with his leadership in 1848.

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see, the Lakota had the most divisions and indeed, were the most numerous. Due to their high numbers and their alliances with the Sistista's (Cheyenne) and Arapaho they dominated the plains and made a tenacious resistance movement.

 

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