The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin (/suË /; Dakota: OÄ héthi Å akówiÅ‹
/otʃʰeË tÊ°i ʃakoË wÄ©/) are groups of Native American tribes and
First Nations peoples in North America. The modern Sioux consist of
two major divisions based on language divisions: the Dakota and
Lakota; collectively they are known as the OÄ héthi Å akówiÅ‹
("Seven Council Fires"). The term "Sioux" is an exonym created from a
French transcription of the Ojibwe term "Nadouessioux", and can refer
to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or to any of the
nation's many language dialects.Before the 17th century, the Santee
Dakota (Isáŋyathi; "Knife" also known as the Eastern Dakota) lived
around Lake Superior with territories in present-day northern
Minnesota and Wisconsin. They gathered wild rice, hunted woodland
animals and used canoes to fish. Wars with the Ojibwe throughout the
1700s pushed the Dakota into southern Minnesota, where the Western
Dakota (Yankton, Yanktonai) and Teton (Lakota) were residing. In the
1800s, the Dakota signed treaties with the United States, ceding much
of their land in Minnesota. Failure of the United States to make
treaty payments on time, as well as low food supplies, led to the
Dakota War of 1862, which resulted in the Dakota being exiled from
Minnesota to numerous reservations in Nebraska, North and South Dakota
and Canada. After 1870, the Dakota people began to return to
Minnesota, creating the present-day reservations in the state. The
Yankton and Yanktonai Dakota (Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋ and
Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna; "Village-at-the-end" and "Little
village-at-the-end"), collectively also referred to by the endonym
WiÄ híyena, resided in the Minnesota River area before ceding their
land and moving to South Dakota in 1858. Despite ceding their lands,
their treaty with the U.S. government allowed them to maintain their
traditional role in the OÄ héthi Å akówiÅ‹ as the caretakers of the
Pipestone Quarry, which is the cultural center of the Sioux people.
They are considered to be the Western Dakota (also called middle
Sioux), and have in the past been erroneously classified as Nakota.
The actual Nakota are the Assiniboine and Stoney of Western Canada and
Montana.The Lakota, also called Teton (Thítȟuŋwaŋ; possibly
"dwellers on the prairie"), are the westernmost Sioux, known for their
hunting and warrior culture. With the arrival of the horse in the
1700s, the Lakota would become the most powerful tribe on the Plains
by the 1850s. They fought the United States Army in the Sioux Wars
including defeating the 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of Little
Big Horn. The armed conflicts with the U.S. ended with the Wounded
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