LAKOTA WERE KNOWN AS DWELLERS OF THE PRAIRIE. THEY ARE PART OF A CONFEDERATION OF SEVEN RELATED SIOUX TRIBES AND SPEAK THE SIOUX LANGUAGE. THEY LIVE IN BOTH NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA. SITTING BULL WAS FROM THE HUNKPAPA BAND. THEY MIGRATED WEST FROM THE GREAT LAKES AREA.
IN 1730 THEY WERE INTRODUCED TO THE HORSE CULTURE BY THE CHEYENNE AND THEIR LIFE CENTERED ON BUFFALO HUNTING. IN 1750THERE WERE 20,000 LAKOTA. TODAY THERE ARE 70,000. THE ARIKAWA PREVENTED THEM TO CROSS THE MISSOURI. HOWEVER, AFTER SMALLPOX NEARLY DESTROYED THESE TRIBES. ONE LAKOTA PARTY LED BY CHIEF STANDING BEAR DISCOVERED THE BLACK HILLS AND THEY CALLED IT PAHA SAPA . THE CHEYENNE WERE ALSO LOCATED THERE. IN 1770'S SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC DESTROYED 3/4 OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN POPULATIONS ON THE AMERICAN INDIAN POPULATIONS ON THE MISSOURI VALLEY. IN 1776 THE LAKOTA DEFEATED CHEYENNE. IN 1851 THE FORT LARAMIE TREATY WAS NEGOTIATED IN ORDER TO PROTECT EMIGRANT TRAVELERS ON THE OREGON TRAIL. AND THE ATTACKS OF SETTLERS WAS SUPPOSED TO END.
THE GOVERNMENT DID NOT ENFORCE THE TREATY AGAINST EUROPEAN/AMERICAN ENCROACHMENT. THE LAKOTA ATTACKED SETTLERS. BY 1835 700 SOLDIERS ATTACKED A LAKOTA VILLAGE KILLING 100 PEOPLE. OTHER WARS FOLLOWED. THE HILLS WERE SACRED TO THE LAKOTA. ONCE GOLD WAS FOUND THIS LAND WAS INVADED BY GOLD SEEKERS.. THE GREAT SIOUX WAR WAS HELD ON 1876 TO 1877. NOT ONLY INDIANS BUT SETTLERS HUNTED BUFFALO.
THE CHEYENNE, LAKOTA, AND ARAPAHO WIPED OUT OVER 260 SOLDIERS AND THE CUSTER BATTALION. HOWEVER, IN 1877 THE LAKOTA WERE CONFINED TO RESERVATIONS AND COULD NOT HUNT BUFFALO. TODAY MANY LIVE IN RAPID CITY
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