LAKOTA AND DAKOTA INDIANS

LAKOTA WERE KNOWN AS DWELLERS OF THE PRAIRIE. THEY ARE PART OF A CONFEDERATION OF SEVEN RELATED SIOUX TRIBES AND SPEAK SIOUX LANGUAGE. THEY LIVE IN NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA. SITTING BULL WAS FROM THE HUNKPAPPA BAND. THEY MIGRATED
WEST FROM THE GREAT LAKES REGION. IN 1730THEY WERE INTRODUCED TO THE HORSE CULTURE BY THE CHEYENNE AND THEIR LIFE CENTERED ON HUNTING BUFFALO. IN 1750 THEIR WERE0 20,000 LAKOTA. TODAY THERE ARE 70,000. THE ARIKAWA PREVENTED THEM TO CROSS THE 70,000. THE ARIKAWA PREVENTED THEM FROM TO CROSS THE MISSOURI. HOWEVER AFTER SMALL POX 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 POPULATION OF INDIANS IN THE MISSOURI VALLEY. IN 1776 THE LAKOTA DEFEATED THE 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 1855 700 SOLDIERS ATTACKED A LAKOTA VILLAGE KILLING 100 PEOPLE. OTHER WARS FOLLOWED. THE HILLS WERE SACRED TO THE LAKOTA. ONCE GOLD WAS FOUND THEIR LANDS WERE INVADED BY GOLD SEEKERS. THE GREAT SIOUX WAR WAS HELD BETWEEN 1876 - 1877. NOT ONLY INDIANS BUT SETTLERS HUNTED BUFFALO.

THE CHEYENNE, LAKOTA AND ARAPAHO WIPED OUT OVER 260 SOLDIERS AND THE ENTIRE CUSTER BATTALION. HOWEVER, IN 1877 THE LAKOTA WERE CONFINED TO RESERVATIONS AND COULD NOT HUNT BUFFALO. TODAY MANY LIVE IN RAPID CITY. THEY LIVE ON 16 RESERVATIONS. IN SOUTH DAKOTA, MONTANA, AND NEBRASKA.

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