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My Death

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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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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

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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

 


Dakota


 


Nakota

 

Hunkpapa

 

Itazipco

 

Minniconjou

 

Oglala

 

Oohenumpa

 

Sicangu

 

Sihasapa

 

 

Mwedankton

 

  Wahpekute  

 

Wahpeton  

 

Sisseton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yankton

 

Yanktonai

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

HISTORY HOME PAGE FACE AND BODY PAINTING 1 FACE AND BODY PAINTING 2 FAMILY TREE 
THE LAKOTA 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 BIG FOOT SITTING BULL CHIEF JOSEPH
BLACK KETTLE RED CLOUD DULL KNIFE GALL
GERONIMO      

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