
The Lakota ("friends" or "allies", sometimes also spelled "Lakhota") are a Native American tribe, also known as the Sioux (see #Names). The Lakota are part of a band of seven tribes that speak three different dialects, the other two being the #The Dakota and the Nakota. The Lakota are the western most of the three groups, occupying lands in both North Dakota and South Dakota. The Nakota, the smallest #Divisions, reside on the Yankton reservation in South Dakota, the Northern portion of Standing Rock Reservation, and Canada (the Stoney and Assiniboine), while the Dakota live mostly in Minnesota and Nebraska. == The Lakota == The Lakota [lakxo'ta] came from the western Dakota of Minnesota who, after the adoption of the horse, _sunkawakan_ [s^uN'ka-wakxaN'] ('power/mystery dog'), became part of the Great Plains Culture with their Minnesota Algonquian languages-speaking allies, the Tsitsistas (Cheyenne), living in the northern Great Plains, which centered on the buffalo hunt with the horse. There were 20,000 Lakota in the mid-18th century. The number has now increased to about 70,000, 20,480 of whom still speak their ancestral language. (See Languages in the United States). Because the Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota (who refer to them as the Paha Sapa, they objected to mining in the area, which has been attempted since the 19th century. In 1868, the US government signed a treaty with them exempting the Black Hills from all white settlement forever. Four years later, gold was discovered there, and an influx of prospectors descended upon the area, abetted by army commanders like General George Armstrong Custer. The latter tried to administer a lesson of noninterference with white policies. Instead, the Lakota with their allies, the Arapaho and the Cheyenne, defeated the 7th U.S. Cavalry in 1876 at the Battle at the Greasy Grass/Battle of the Little Bighorn, known also as Custer's Last Stand, since he and all 300 of his troopers perished there. But like the Zulu triumph over the British in Africa three years later, it was a pyrrhic victory. The Lakota were defeated slowly by the wholesale slaughter of the buffalo by the U.S. Army and military police actions herding all Indians onto reservations and enforcing government food distribution policies to 'friendlies' only, culminating, fourteen years later, in the killing of Sitting Bull (December 15, 1890) at Standing Rock and the Massacre of Wounded Knee (December 29, 1890) at Pine Ridge. In Nebraska on September 3, 1855, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenged the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village killing 100 men, women, and children. Seven years later on November 5, 1862 also in Minnesota, 303 Santee Sioux were found guilty of rape and murder of hundreds of white farmers in 1862 and were sentenced to hang. Of those 38 were hanged, the rest were pardoned by Abraham Lincoln. == The Dakota == The original Dakota people migrated north and westward from the south and east into Ohio then to Minnesota. The Dakota were a woodland people who thrived on hunting, fishing and subsistence farming. Migrations of Anishinaabe/Chippewa people from the east in the 17th and 18th centuries, with rifles supplied by the French and English, pushed the Dakota further into Minnesota and west and southward, giving the name "Dakota Territory" to the northern expanse west of the Mississippi and up to its headwaters. The western Dakota obtained horses, probably in the 17th century, and moved onto the plains, becoming the Lakota, subsisting on the American Bison herds and corn-trade with their linguistic cousins, the Mandan and Hidatsa along the Missouri_river . In the 19th century, as the railroads hired hunters to exterminate the buffalo herds, the Indians' primary food supply, in order to force all tribes into sedentary habitations, the Dakota and Lakota were forced to accept white-defined reservations in exchange for the rest of their lands, and domestic cattle and corn in exchange for buffalo, becoming dependent upon annual federal payments guaranteed by treaty. In 1862, after a failed crop the year before and a winter starvation, the federal payment was late to arrive. The local traders would not issue any more credit to the Dakota and the local federal agent told the Dakota that they were free to eat grass. As a result on August 17, 1862, the Sioux Uprising began when a few Dakota men attacked a white farmer, igniting further attacks on white settlements along the Minnesota River. Some 450 peaceful farmers (mostly German immigrants) were massacred until state and federal forces put the revolt down. Court martials tried and condemned 303 Dakota for war crimes. President Abraham_Lincoln remanded the death sentence of 285 of the warriors, signing off on the execution of 38 Dakota men by hanging on December 29, 1862 in Mankato, Minnesota, the largest mass execution in US history. == Names == The name ''Sioux'' was created by the French Canadians, who abbreviated the Algonquin language compound ''Nadouéssioux'' (from ''nadowe'' ("Iroquois") plus ''siu'' ("snake"/the massasauga rattler), by which a neighboring Ojibwa tribe, or the Ottawa People, referred to the Dakota to the west and south. This term is popularly interpreted as an insult but it could refer to a time when the Dakota people, like other Muscogee, were known to revere serpents (see Serpent Mounds in Ohio, Quetzalcoatl , water serpents - unktehi/uktena, etc.) Today many of the tribes continue to officially call themselves 'Sioux' which the Federal Government of the United States applied to all Dakota/Lakota/Nakoda people in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Dakota, Lakota and Nakoda have names for their own subdivisions. The "Santee" received this name from camping for long periods in a place where they collected stone for making knives. The "Yankton" received this name which meant people from the villages of far away. The "Tetonwan" were known as people who moved west with the coming of the horse to live and hunt buffalo on the prairie. From these three principal groups, came seven sub-tribes. == Divisions == The Sioux Nation consists of divisions, each of which may have distinct bands, the larger of which are divided into sub-bands. *Eastern division (the Dakota or Santee) ** Mdewakantonwan ** Sisitonwan ** Wahpekute ** Wahpetonwan * Middle division (the Nakota)(Nakoda) ** Ihanktonwan (Yankton) ** Ihanktonwana (Yanktonai or Little Yankton) ** Stoney (Canada) ** Assiniboine (Canada) * Western division (the Lakota) ** Titonwan (Teton) *** Hunkpapa ***: notable persons: Sitting_Bull *** Oglala ***: notable persons: Crazy_Horse_(person), Red Cloud, and Billy Mills (Olympics sportsman) **** Payabya **** Tapisleca **** Kiyaksa **** Wajaje **** Itesica **** Oyuhpe **** Wagluhe *** Sihasapa (Blackfoot Sioux) *** Sichangu (French language: Brulé) ("burnt thighs") **** Upper Sichangu **** Lower Sichangu *** Miniconjou *** Itazipacola (French: Sans Arcs "No Bows") *** Oohenonpa (Two-Kettle or Two Boilings) Also: Jef Baetens is an American (haska) Related Siouan peoples: * Dhegiha ** Omaha ** Ponca ** Quapaw ** Wazaze (Osage Nation) ** Kansa * Chiwere ** Iowa ** Oto ** Missouri * Mandan ** Mandan * Hidatsa ** Hidatsa * Crow ** Absaroka (Crow_Tribe) * Eastern ** Catawba ** Woccon ** Monacan * Southern/Ohio Valley ** Tutelo ** Biloxi ** Oto == Reservations == Today, one half of all Enrolled Sioux live off the Indian reservation. Sioux Reservations recognized by the US government include: * Oglala (Pine Ridge, South Dakota ) * Brule (Rosebud) * Hunkpapa (Standing Rock/Cheyenne River) * Miniconju (Cheyenne River) * Sans Arc (Cheyenne River) * Two-Kettle (Cheyenne River) * Santee * Yanktonai (Yankton) * Flandreau * Sisseton-Wahpehton * Lower Sioux * Upper Sioux * Shakopee * Prairie Island == Derived placenames == The U.S. states of North Dakota and South Dakota are named after the Dakota. Two other U.S. states have names of Siouan origin: Minnesota is named from ''mni'' ("water") plus ''sota'' ("hazy/smoky, not clear"), while Nebraska is named from a language close to Dakota, in which ''mni'' plus ''blaska'' ("flat") refers to the Platte (French for "flat") River. Also, the states Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri are named for cousin Siouan tribes, the Kansa, Iowa, and Missouri, respectively, as are the cities Omaha%2C_Nebraska and Ponca_City. The names vividly demonstrate the wide dispersion of the Siouan peoples across the Midwest More directly, several Midwestern municipalities utilize Sioux in their names, including Sioux City (IA), Sioux Center (IA) and Sioux Falls (SD). Midwestern rivers include the Big Sioux River in Iowa and Little Sioux River along the Iowa/South Dakota border. ==Media== == See also == * Lakota language == External links == *[http://www.lakhota.org Lakota Language Consortium] *[http://www.historytelevision.ca/chiefs/htmlen/sioux/lc_tribe.asp Explore the history and culture of the Lakota Sioux] *[http://www.wintercounts.si.edu Winter Counts] a Smithsonian exhibit of the annual icon chosen to represent the major event of the past year Lakota tribe Native American tribes
==More information needed, Nezumi== I think there should be more talk about the values of the lakota people. Such as: 1. Wacantognaka "Generosity" 2. Wowacintanka "Respect" 3. Wokscape "Wisdom" 4. Woohitika "Courage" Not only these things but how the buffalo was such an important part of life to them. Even talk about the 4 directions would be helpful. ==Myths and Legends== Shouldn't there be something on Native American myths and legends here? Like the White Buffalo Woman [http://www.merceronline.com/Native/native05.htm]...? ==Lakota, Dakota, Nakota== Lakota, Dakota and Nakota are the language groups of the "sioux". redirection of sioux to lakota neglects the other two. plus: there are at least seven tribes (see german entry). anyone but me volunteering to improve this page? ==Talk by Anon, moved from article== This page is obviously tainted by Lakota revisionist propaganda. Get your facts straight. Here is what you said: "Four years later, gold was discovered there, and an influx of prospectors descended upon the area, abetted by army commanders like General George Armstrong Custer." The word "abetted" implies criminal activity, and betrays your bias. Custer was following orders from the federal government and was obeying a directive to explore the Black Hills, legally, because according to the treaty with the Sioux the U.S. had a right to build a military road through the area. The objective of his expedition was to survey land, not to promote an influx of illegal white gold-seekers. Only the year before, Custer had led a survey expedition into the Yellowstone area, so he was a logical candidate for the Black Hills region. Just because gold seekers invaded the Black Hills after Custer was there, he gets the blame for the problem, just as he does now for everything else bad that ever happened to the Lakota. You've made him into a symbolic scapegoat, but the truth remains despite your revisionist propaganda. Here is what you said: "The latter attempted to administer a lesson of noninterference with white policies." Again, you distort history. The Lakota in question had been declared enemy combatants by the U.S. War department for failing to remain on their reservations, and for committing depradations on white settlers. They'd been given time to return but had refused. The federal government declared war on them. Custer and his men were only one small part of a three-pronged attack planned at the highest levels. He wasn't even in charge of one of the three columns, just a piece of one. And he was not attempting to teach any kind of lesson, he was following his orders to find and attack the enemy. Here is what you said: "Instead, the Lakota with their allies, the Arapaho and the Cheyenne, defeated the 7th U.S. Cavalry in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, known also as Custer's Last Stand, since he and 300 of his troopers perished there." The Lakota did not defeat the 7th U.S. Cavalry. It inflicted severe damage, but again you exaggerate the known facts. Custer split his small command into three components for the attack, and it was only his own component that was wiped out. And that was only 219 men, not 300. More than half of the rest of the command survived and went into immediate pursuit. Here is what you said: "Less well known is the history of the eastern Dakota people, in Minnesota. Unlike their plains cousins, the Lakota, they lived in agricultural communities. They accepted white settlements and seizure of their lands in exchange for grain shipments guaranteed by treaty." This is absolutely not true. A small percentage of MN Dakota accepted farming, and they were ridiculed by the vast majority of their fellow-tribesmen. A few were even murdered. The Lower Agency Dakota were especially resistant to any attempt to convince them to start farming. Too bad for them. So sad. The reservation they lived on had enough land to provide hundreds of acres for every man and his family in the tribes, yet they complained they were starving. How is it then that white settlers, with far less land and with nobody offering to help them, were quite capable of supporting themselves? It was only because the "braves" in the Lower Agency felt that honest work in the field was beneath them. In other words, they were lazy, and they expected to have everything handed to them on a silver plate without working for it. The fact is that the Dakota had been living on some of the world's richest farm land for two hundred years, and were barely able to eke out a subsistance living, having fertilized the land with only the blood of their innocent victims, while -- in less than 40 years -- white settlers turned the fields of Minnesota into the the world's largest grain source. Here is what you said: "In 1862, the grain failed to arrive, and the local federal agent told the Dakota that they were free to eat grass." Totally off, again. It wasn't the grain that failed to arrive, it was the annuity payment, and it didn't fail to arrive, either. It was just late. The admittedly stupid and insensitive comment regarding the eating of grass is true, but it wasn't the federal agent who said it. And in any event the words of the idiot who spoke them cannot justify the murder, rape, pillage and torture that followed. Here is what you said: "Instead, they scalped him, looted his warehouse, and rampaged through the area, killing perhaps a dozen whites." A dozen? Your math is as bad as your history. The Dakota "braves" butchered between 400 and 800 innocent men, women and children, who had absolutely nothing to do with their grievances against the federal government. If any disgruntled political group committed such mass murder today, they would be called terrorists, and there would be an immediate and massive manhunt to track them all down and kill them, like vermin. Here is what you said: "Although this was in the middle of the American Civil War, enough troops were gathered to put down the "rebellion", and more than 300 Dakota were sentenced by local courts to die for the crimes of murder or rape." Again, you can't even get your basic facts straight. It wasn't the middle of the Civil War, but the very first year of it. The "troops" gathered were mainly settlers on the frontier who banded together for common defense of their homes and families against unwarranted murder, pillage and rape. And the 300 Dakota captured and tried were not sentenced by local courts, but by a military tribunal charged with investigating and prosecuting war criminals. The whole tone of your paragraph regarding the uprising implies that you think it was justified and admirable. Typical Dakota thinking. Warriors to the end, truth be damned, and play the victim to the hilt. But there are plenty of us out here who aren't falling for your ignorant brand of historical revisionism. You would have us thinking that the Dakota were just sitting there smelling flowers in the field, and along came the evil white man to perpetrate injustices and take away your land. The fact is, you were losing the land already, to the Ojibwe, for two-hundred years, and even without the white incursion the Lakota were already being pushed out of the forests and on to the prairie by other Indians. I notice the Dakota haven't been asking the Ojibwe to compensate them for taking away the Mille Lacs Lake area, which was once a 'sacred' Dakota homeland. I also notice that the Dakota never offered to compensate the Indian tribes which they pushed out of Minnesota themselves when they first came in. Instead, you seem to think that gullible white people are the best targets for sympathetic pleas, just like common panhandlers in the street, who are perfectly capable of working and supporting themselves, but won't try as long as somebody is willing to listen to their sob story. Why don't you face the fact that the Dakota lost, and get over it. And wake up to the fact that nowhere else in history, in any part of the globe, has an advanced culture run up against a primitive one that didn't exterminate them, enslave them, or at the very least push them off the land. This country is the one shining example in all of human history where the advanced culture attempted to permit the primitive culture to co-exist. The reservation system was admittedly flawed, but it was born of a noble idea. What did you expect them to do? Just pack up and go back to Europe? Get real. Read history and you'll find thousands of years worth of conflicts all over the world that were far worse than what happened to the so-called "native Americans". : "And wake up to the fact that nowhere else in history, in any part of the globe, has an advanced culture run up against a primitive one that didn't exterminate them, enslave them, or at the very least push them off the land." : That's nonsense. Africa is still ruled by the Africans. The current inhabitants of Mexico are largely descended from the pre-Columbus mexicans. : "This country is the one shining example in all of human history where the advanced culture attempted to permit the primitive culture to co-exist." : Give me a break. The Cherokee were forced off thier land, so their churchs and libraries could be turned into bars. Irquois corn farmers had to deal with pigs running through their crops, and would prosecuted for killing the tresspassing pigs. Again, in many other places in the world, the original people still live on thier land, and in Africa with thier original cultures and religions. This country's behavior is not unique, but is far from a "shining example". : "What did you expect them to do? Just pack up and go back to Europe?" : Um, yes? You can't casually justify invasion like that; it's just lebensraum all over again. We told the Germans to just pack up and go back to Germany, even though they wanted to live in Poland and France. If aliens traveled from Alpha Centurai to Earth and planned to colonize, we'd tell to them to "just pack up and go back to Alpha Centurai". We sure as hell wouldn't accept it as a valid excuse to displace us from our homes. : ''Your'' revisionism is quite blatant. Try putting yourself in someone else's shoes for once. --User:Prosfilaes 02:03, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC) ==X-SAMPA== "pronounced "Lakxóta" by the Lakota people"? Please use X-SAMPA for this; it seems to be common for phonetic spellings and it's related to the standard IPA. Lakxóta doesn't help me figure out the pronounciation anymore than Lakhota does. --User:Prosfilaes 02:03, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC) *Put it back, please. I'll convert the pronunciation to IPA this weekend when I have more time. User:Cbdorsett 19:00, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC) :: So it finally motivated someone to fix it? I don't see any reason to put it back; it's even right here on the Talk page. When it gets converted, then you can put it on the main page. Until then, I stand by my argument that it's useless and confusing to put on the page. --User:Prosfilaes 23:37, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==Seperate or move?== I was on the verge of splitting this page up into separate "Lakota" and "Sioux" articles, but then I had another think. What does the word "Lakota" really mean? When actual Sioux people say "Lakota" do they just mean the Lakota (i.e. Teton) branch, or do they mean Sioux people in general? The fact that there seems to already be a name for each of the dialects (Santee, Yankton, Teton) implies the latter. I won't split the page unless someone can speak more conclusively on what Lakota means. But maybe we should move the whole thing to Sioux in order to be less confusing? - User:Nat KrauseUser_Talk:Nat Krause 14:55, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC) *Leave it alone, and put a #REDIRECT on the Sioux page so that people can find all the information on one page. User:Cbdorsett 18:56, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==correction== only 20,000 Lakota lived during the mid 18th century . source : centennial campaign by John S.Gray == US Government == There fails to be reasonable proof that the US wants revenge against any native nation. I have marked the article NPOV. : That's not the right way to handle things. NPOV is when there's an argument over the page, not when some idiot comes in and puts a bunch of trash on the page. Just revert it. --User:Prosfilaes 22:18, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC) == US Government == How do I revert a page? I'm new. And I'm sorry I didn't know that was proper ettiquette. I just didn't want to change the article too significantly. == Social History/Political History == This article is a little scattered. I was hoping to find something on the society and history of the Sioux, including current information about the distribution and groupings. The article satisfied some of my interests but is also full of a hode podge of massacres etc instead of any real history. I've moved the former second paragraph of the introduction down following the bit about the Little Big Horn. this paragraph detailed a massacre and some trials in the 1860's and seemed kind of odd as a general introduction tot he topic of the Sioux - who after all are a lot more than murderers and rapists! S-Slater
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The Lakota ("friends" or "allies", sometimes also spelled "Lakhota") are a Native American tribe, also known as the Sioux (see #Names). The Lakota are part of a band of seven tribes that speak three different dialects, the other two being the #The Dakota and the Nakota. The Lakota are the western most of the three groups, occupying lands in both North Dakota and South Dakota. The Nakota, the smallest #Divisions, reside on the Yankton reservation in South Dakota, the Northern portion of Standing Rock Reservation, and Canada (the Stoney and Assiniboine), while the Dakota live mostly in Minnesota and Nebraska. == The Lakota == The Lakota [lakxo'ta] came from the western Dakota of Minnesota who, after the adoption of the horse, _sunkawakan_ [s^uN'ka-wakxaN'] ('power/mystery dog'), became part of the Great Plains Culture with their Minnesota Algonquian languages-speaking allies, the Tsitsistas (Cheyenne), living in the northern Great Plains, which centered on the buffalo hunt with the horse. There were 20,000 Lakota in the mid-18th century. The number has now increased to about 70,000, 20,480 of whom still speak their ancestral language. (See Languages in the United States). Because the Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota (who refer to them as the Paha Sapa, they objected to mining in the area, which has been attempted since the 19th century. In 1868, the US government signed a treaty with them exempting the Black Hills from all white settlement forever. Four years later, gold was discovered there, and an influx of prospectors descended upon the area, abetted by army commanders like General George Armstrong Custer. The latter tried to administer a lesson of noninterference with white policies. Instead, the Lakota with their allies, the Arapaho and the Cheyenne, defeated the 7th U.S. Cavalry in 1876 at the Battle at the Greasy Grass/Battle of the Little Bighorn, known also as Custer's Last Stand, since he and all 300 of his troopers perished there. But like the Zulu triumph over the British in Africa three years later, it was a pyrrhic victory. The Lakota were defeated slowly by the wholesale slaughter of the buffalo by the U.S. Army and military police actions herding all Indians onto reservations and enforcing government food distribution policies to 'friendlies' only, culminating, fourteen years later, in the killing of Sitting Bull (December 15, 1890) at Standing Rock and the Massacre of Wounded Knee (December 29, 1890) at Pine Ridge. In Nebraska on September 3, 1855, 700 soldiers under United States General William S. Harney avenged the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village killing 100 men, women, and children. Seven years later on November 5, 1862 also in Minnesota, 303 Santee Sioux were found guilty of rape and murder of hundreds of white farmers in 1862 and were sentenced to hang. Of those 38 were hanged, the rest were pardoned by Abraham Lincoln. == The Dakota == The original Dakota people migrated north and westward from the south and east into Ohio then to Minnesota. The Dakota were a woodland people who thrived on hunting, fishing and subsistence farming. Migrations of Anishinaabe/Chippewa people from the east in the 17th and 18th centuries, with rifles supplied by the French and English, pushed the Dakota further into Minnesota and west and southward, giving the name "Dakota Territory" to the northern expanse west of the Mississippi and up to its headwaters. The western Dakota obtained horses, probably in the 17th century, and moved onto the plains, becoming the Lakota, subsisting on the American Bison herds and corn-trade with their linguistic cousins, the Mandan and Hidatsa along the Missouri_river . In the 19th century, as the railroads hired hunters to exterminate the buffalo herds, the Indians' primary food supply, in order to force all tribes into sedentary habitations, the Dakota and Lakota were forced to accept white-defined reservations in exchange for the rest of their lands, and domestic cattle and corn in exchange for buffalo, becoming dependent upon annual federal payments guaranteed by treaty. In 1862, after a failed crop the year before and a winter starvation, the federal payment was late to arrive. The local traders would not issue any more credit to the Dakota and the local federal agent told the Dakota that they were free to eat grass. As a result on August 17, 1862, the Sioux Uprising began when a few Dakota men attacked a white farmer, igniting further attacks on white settlements along the Minnesota River. Some 450 peaceful farmers (mostly German immigrants) were massacred until state and federal forces put the revolt down. Court martials tried and condemned 303 Dakota for war crimes. President Abraham_Lincoln remanded the death sentence of 285 of the warriors, signing off on the execution of 38 Dakota men by hanging on December 29, 1862 in Mankato, Minnesota, the largest mass execution in US history. == Names == The name ''Sioux'' was created by the French Canadians, who abbreviated the Algonquin language compound ''Nadouéssioux'' (from ''nadowe'' ("Iroquois") plus ''siu'' ("snake"/the massasauga rattler), by which a neighboring Ojibwa tribe, or the Ottawa People, referred to the Dakota to the west and south. This term is popularly interpreted as an insult but it could refer to a time when the Dakota people, like other Muscogee, were known to revere serpents (see Serpent Mounds in Ohio, Quetzalcoatl , water serpents - unktehi/uktena, etc.) Today many of the tribes continue to officially call themselves 'Sioux' which the Federal Government of the United States applied to all Dakota/Lakota/Nakoda people in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Dakota, Lakota and Nakoda have names for their own subdivisions. The "Santee" received this name from camping for long periods in a place where they collected stone for making knives. The "Yankton" received this name which meant people from the villages of far away. The "Tetonwan" were known as people who moved west with the coming of the horse to live and hunt buffalo on the prairie. From these three principal groups, came seven sub-tribes. == Divisions == The Sioux Nation consists of divisions, each of which may have distinct bands, the larger of which are divided into sub-bands. *Eastern division (the Dakota or Santee) ** Mdewakantonwan ** Sisitonwan ** Wahpekute ** Wahpetonwan * Middle division (the Nakota)(Nakoda) ** Ihanktonwan (Yankton) ** Ihanktonwana (Yanktonai or Little Yankton) ** Stoney (Canada) ** Assiniboine (Canada) * Western division (the Lakota) ** Titonwan (Teton) *** Hunkpapa ***: notable persons: Sitting_Bull *** Oglala ***: notable persons: Crazy_Horse_(person), Red Cloud, and Billy Mills (Olympics sportsman) **** Payabya **** Tapisleca **** Kiyaksa **** Wajaje **** Itesica **** Oyuhpe **** Wagluhe *** Sihasapa (Blackfoot Sioux) *** Sichangu (French language: Brulé) ("burnt thighs") **** Upper Sichangu **** Lower Sichangu *** Miniconjou *** Itazipacola (French: Sans Arcs "No Bows") *** Oohenonpa (Two-Kettle or Two Boilings) Also: Jef Baetens is an American (haska) Related Siouan peoples: * Dhegiha ** Omaha ** Ponca ** Quapaw ** Wazaze (Osage Nation) ** Kansa * Chiwere ** Iowa ** Oto ** Missouri * Mandan ** Mandan * Hidatsa ** Hidatsa * Crow ** Absaroka (Crow_Tribe) * Eastern ** Catawba ** Woccon ** Monacan * Southern/Ohio Valley ** Tutelo ** Biloxi ** Oto == Reservations == Today, one half of all Enrolled Sioux live off the Indian reservation. Sioux Reservations recognized by the US government include: * Oglala (Pine Ridge, South Dakota ) * Brule (Rosebud) * Hunkpapa (Standing Rock/Cheyenne River) * Miniconju (Cheyenne River) * Sans Arc (Cheyenne River) * Two-Kettle (Cheyenne River) * Santee * Yanktonai (Yankton) * Flandreau * Sisseton-Wahpehton * Lower Sioux * Upper Sioux * Shakopee * Prairie Island == Derived placenames == The U.S. states of North Dakota and South Dakota are named after the Dakota. Two other U.S. states have names of Siouan origin: Minnesota is named from ''mni'' ("water") plus ''sota'' ("hazy/smoky, not clear"), while Nebraska is named from a language close to Dakota, in which ''mni'' plus ''blaska'' ("flat") refers to the Platte (French for "flat") River. Also, the states Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri are named for cousin Siouan tribes, the Kansa, Iowa, and Missouri, respectively, as are the cities Omaha%2C_Nebraska and Ponca_City. The names vividly demonstrate the wide dispersion of the Siouan peoples across the Midwest More directly, several Midwestern municipalities utilize Sioux in their names, including Sioux City (IA), Sioux Center (IA) and Sioux Falls (SD). Midwestern rivers include the Big Sioux River in Iowa and Little Sioux River along the Iowa/South Dakota border. ==Media== == See also == * Lakota language == External links == *[http://www.lakhota.org Lakota Language Consortium] *[http://www.historytelevision.ca/chiefs/htmlen/sioux/lc_tribe.asp Explore the history and culture of the Lakota Sioux] *[http://www.wintercounts.si.edu Winter Counts] a Smithsonian exhibit of the annual icon chosen to represent the major event of the past year Lakota tribe Native American tribes
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==More information needed, Nezumi== I think there should be more talk about the values of the lakota people. Such as: 1. Wacantognaka "Generosity" 2. Wowacintanka "Respect" 3. Wokscape "Wisdom" 4. Woohitika "Courage" Not only these things but how the buffalo was such an important part of life to them. Even talk about the 4 directions would be helpful. ==Myths and Legends== Shouldn't there be something on Native American myths and legends here? Like the White Buffalo Woman [http://www.merceronline.com/Native/native05.htm]...? ==Lakota, Dakota, Nakota== Lakota, Dakota and Nakota are the language groups of the "sioux". redirection of sioux to lakota neglects the other two. plus: there are at least seven tribes (see german entry). anyone but me volunteering to improve this page? ==Talk by Anon, moved from article== This page is obviously tainted by Lakota revisionist propaganda. Get your facts straight. Here is what you said: "Four years later, gold was discovered there, and an influx of prospectors descended upon the area, abetted by army commanders like General George Armstrong Custer." The word "abetted" implies criminal activity, and betrays your bias. Custer was following orders from the federal government and was obeying a directive to explore the Black Hills, legally, because according to the treaty with the Sioux the U.S. had a right to build a military road through the area. The objective of his expedition was to survey land, not to promote an influx of illegal white gold-seekers. Only the year before, Custer had led a survey expedition into the Yellowstone area, so he was a logical candidate for the Black Hills region. Just because gold seekers invaded the Black Hills after Custer was there, he gets the blame for the problem, just as he does now for everything else bad that ever happened to the Lakota. You've made him into a symbolic scapegoat, but the truth remains despite your revisionist propaganda. Here is what you said: "The latter attempted to administer a lesson of noninterference with white policies." Again, you distort history. The Lakota in question had been declared enemy combatants by the U.S. War department for failing to remain on their reservations, and for committing depradations on white settlers. They'd been given time to return but had refused. The federal government declared war on them. Custer and his men were only one small part of a three-pronged attack planned at the highest levels. He wasn't even in charge of one of the three columns, just a piece of one. And he was not attempting to teach any kind of lesson, he was following his orders to find and attack the enemy. Here is what you said: "Instead, the Lakota with their allies, the Arapaho and the Cheyenne, defeated the 7th U.S. Cavalry in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, known also as Custer's Last Stand, since he and 300 of his troopers perished there." The Lakota did not defeat the 7th U.S. Cavalry. It inflicted severe damage, but again you exaggerate the known facts. Custer split his small command into three components for the attack, and it was only his own component that was wiped out. And that was only 219 men, not 300. More than half of the rest of the command survived and went into immediate pursuit. Here is what you said: "Less well known is the history of the eastern Dakota people, in Minnesota. Unlike their plains cousins, the Lakota, they lived in agricultural communities. They accepted white settlements and seizure of their lands in exchange for grain shipments guaranteed by treaty." This is absolutely not true. A small percentage of MN Dakota accepted farming, and they were ridiculed by the vast majority of their fellow-tribesmen. A few were even murdered. The Lower Agency Dakota were especially resistant to any attempt to convince them to start farming. Too bad for them. So sad. The reservation they lived on had enough land to provide hundreds of acres for every man and his family in the tribes, yet they complained they were starving. How is it then that white settlers, with far less land and with nobody offering to help them, were quite capable of supporting themselves? It was only because the "braves" in the Lower Agency felt that honest work in the field was beneath them. In other words, they were lazy, and they expected to have everything handed to them on a silver plate without working for it. The fact is that the Dakota had been living on some of the world's richest farm land for two hundred years, and were barely able to eke out a subsistance living, having fertilized the land with only the blood of their innocent victims, while -- in less than 40 years -- white settlers turned the fields of Minnesota into the the world's largest grain source. Here is what you said: "In 1862, the grain failed to arrive, and the local federal agent told the Dakota that they were free to eat grass." Totally off, again. It wasn't the grain that failed to arrive, it was the annuity payment, and it didn't fail to arrive, either. It was just late. The admittedly stupid and insensitive comment regarding the eating of grass is true, but it wasn't the federal agent who said it. And in any event the words of the idiot who spoke them cannot justify the murder, rape, pillage and torture that followed. Here is what you said: "Instead, they scalped him, looted his warehouse, and rampaged through the area, killing perhaps a dozen whites." A dozen? Your math is as bad as your history. The Dakota "braves" butchered between 400 and 800 innocent men, women and children, who had absolutely nothing to do with their grievances against the federal government. If any disgruntled political group committed such mass murder today, they would be called terrorists, and there would be an immediate and massive manhunt to track them all down and kill them, like vermin. Here is what you said: "Although this was in the middle of the American Civil War, enough troops were gathered to put down the "rebellion", and more than 300 Dakota were sentenced by local courts to die for the crimes of murder or rape." Again, you can't even get your basic facts straight. It wasn't the middle of the Civil War, but the very first year of it. The "troops" gathered were mainly settlers on the frontier who banded together for common defense of their homes and families against unwarranted murder, pillage and rape. And the 300 Dakota captured and tried were not sentenced by local courts, but by a military tribunal charged with investigating and prosecuting war criminals. The whole tone of your paragraph regarding the uprising implies that you think it was justified and admirable. Typical Dakota thinking. Warriors to the end, truth be damned, and play the victim to the hilt. But there are plenty of us out here who aren't falling for your ignorant brand of historical revisionism. You would have us thinking that the Dakota were just sitting there smelling flowers in the field, and along came the evil white man to perpetrate injustices and take away your land. The fact is, you were losing the land already, to the Ojibwe, for two-hundred years, and even without the white incursion the Lakota were already being pushed out of the forests and on to the prairie by other Indians. I notice the Dakota haven't been asking the Ojibwe to compensate them for taking away the Mille Lacs Lake area, which was once a 'sacred' Dakota homeland. I also notice that the Dakota never offered to compensate the Indian tribes which they pushed out of Minnesota themselves when they first came in. Instead, you seem to think that gullible white people are the best targets for sympathetic pleas, just like common panhandlers in the street, who are perfectly capable of working and supporting themselves, but won't try as long as somebody is willing to listen to their sob story. Why don't you face the fact that the Dakota lost, and get over it. And wake up to the fact that nowhere else in history, in any part of the globe, has an advanced culture run up against a primitive one that didn't exterminate them, enslave them, or at the very least push them off the land. This country is the one shining example in all of human history where the advanced culture attempted to permit the primitive culture to co-exist. The reservation system was admittedly flawed, but it was born of a noble idea. What did you expect them to do? Just pack up and go back to Europe? Get real. Read history and you'll find thousands of years worth of conflicts all over the world that were far worse than what happened to the so-called "native Americans". : "And wake up to the fact that nowhere else in history, in any part of the globe, has an advanced culture run up against a primitive one that didn't exterminate them, enslave them, or at the very least push them off the land." : That's nonsense. Africa is still ruled by the Africans. The current inhabitants of Mexico are largely descended from the pre-Columbus mexicans. : "This country is the one shining example in all of human history where the advanced culture attempted to permit the primitive culture to co-exist." : Give me a break. The Cherokee were forced off thier land, so their churchs and libraries could be turned into bars. Irquois corn farmers had to deal with pigs running through their crops, and would prosecuted for killing the tresspassing pigs. Again, in many other places in the world, the original people still live on thier land, and in Africa with thier original cultures and religions. This country's behavior is not unique, but is far from a "shining example". : "What did you expect them to do? Just pack up and go back to Europe?" : Um, yes? You can't casually justify invasion like that; it's just lebensraum all over again. We told the Germans to just pack up and go back to Germany, even though they wanted to live in Poland and France. If aliens traveled from Alpha Centurai to Earth and planned to colonize, we'd tell to them to "just pack up and go back to Alpha Centurai". We sure as hell wouldn't accept it as a valid excuse to displace us from our homes. : ''Your'' revisionism is quite blatant. Try putting yourself in someone else's shoes for once. --User:Prosfilaes 02:03, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC) ==X-SAMPA== "pronounced "Lakxóta" by the Lakota people"? Please use X-SAMPA for this; it seems to be common for phonetic spellings and it's related to the standard IPA. Lakxóta doesn't help me figure out the pronounciation anymore than Lakhota does. --User:Prosfilaes 02:03, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC) *Put it back, please. I'll convert the pronunciation to IPA this weekend when I have more time. User:Cbdorsett 19:00, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC) :: So it finally motivated someone to fix it? I don't see any reason to put it back; it's even right here on the Talk page. When it gets converted, then you can put it on the main page. Until then, I stand by my argument that it's useless and confusing to put on the page. --User:Prosfilaes 23:37, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==Seperate or move?== I was on the verge of splitting this page up into separate "Lakota" and "Sioux" articles, but then I had another think. What does the word "Lakota" really mean? When actual Sioux people say "Lakota" do they just mean the Lakota (i.e. Teton) branch, or do they mean Sioux people in general? The fact that there seems to already be a name for each of the dialects (Santee, Yankton, Teton) implies the latter. I won't split the page unless someone can speak more conclusively on what Lakota means. But maybe we should move the whole thing to Sioux in order to be less confusing? - User:Nat KrauseUser_Talk:Nat Krause 14:55, 18 Jul 2004 (UTC) *Leave it alone, and put a #REDIRECT on the Sioux page so that people can find all the information on one page. User:Cbdorsett 18:56, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC) ==correction== only 20,000 Lakota lived during the mid 18th century . source : centennial campaign by John S.Gray == US Government == There fails to be reasonable proof that the US wants revenge against any native nation. I have marked the article NPOV. : That's not the right way to handle things. NPOV is when there's an argument over the page, not when some idiot comes in and puts a bunch of trash on the page. Just revert it. --User:Prosfilaes 22:18, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC) == US Government == How do I revert a page? I'm new. And I'm sorry I didn't know that was proper ettiquette. I just didn't want to change the article too significantly. == Social History/Political History == This article is a little scattered. I was hoping to find something on the society and history of the Sioux, including current information about the distribution and groupings. The article satisfied some of my interests but is also full of a hode podge of massacres etc instead of any real history. I've moved the former second paragraph of the introduction down following the bit about the Little Big Horn. this paragraph detailed a massacre and some trials in the 1860's and seemed kind of odd as a general introduction tot he topic of the Sioux - who after all are a lot more than murderers and rapists! S-Slater
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