LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Sioux Indians: South Dakota
built 628 days ago
The Black Hills of Dakota are sacred to the Sioux Indians. In the 1868 treaty, signed at Fort Laramie and other military posts in Sioux country, the United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for exclusive use by the Sioux people. In 1874... General George A. Custer led an expedition into the Black Hills accompanied by miners who were seeking gold. Once gold was found in the Black Hills, miners were soon moving into the Sioux hunting grounds and demanding protection from the United States Army. Soon, the Army was ordered to move against wandering bands of Sioux hunting on the range in accordance with their treaty rights. In 1876, Custer, leading an army detachment, encountered the encampment of Sioux and Cheyenne at the Little Bighorn River.
Source:
Sioux, or Dakota, Indians, a large and powerful tribe of Indians, who were found by the French, in 1640, near the headwaters of the Mississippi River. The Algonquiens called them Nadowessioux, whence they came to be called Sioux. They occupied the vast domain extending from the Arkansas River, in the south, to the western tributary of Lake Winnipeg, in the north, and westward to the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. They have been classed into four grand divisions - namely, the Winnebagoes, who inhabited the country between Lake Michigan as the Mississippi, among the Algonquians; the Assiniboines, or Sioux proper (the most northerly of the nation) ; the Minnetaree group, in Minnesota; and the Southern Sioux, who dwelt in the country between the Arkansas and Platte rivers, and whose hunting-grounds extended to the Rocky Mountains. In 1679 Jean Duluth, a French officer, set up the Gallic standard among them near Lake St. Peter, and next year he rescued from them Father Hennepin, who first
Source:
Photograph of American soldiers gathering up dead Sioux Indians after the Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota, 1890. Three soldiers are standing in the foreground by a donkey-drawn wagon full of the stiff bodies of dead Indians. There are four donkeys hitched to the wagon at right, and the Indians are visible over the wooden sides of the vehicle. A group of seven mounted cavalrymen is standing on the snowy hill above the wagon, and another wagon with a team of four donkeys is in the background at left.
Source:
Sioux or Dakota Indians came from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Cocopa Indians came from Baja California. Wichita Indians came from Oklahoma. Othertribes included the Pawnees, Arapaho, Navajo, Hopi, Cheyenne and Chippewa.
Source:
Named in honor of the Sioux Indians, Sioux City is located in the center of America's heartland at the confluence of the Missouri and Big Sioux Rivers. It is at the junction of the States of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. This Tri-State area is known as Siouxland. Sioux City is the largest city and the commercial hub of the tri-state metropolitan area with a population of more than 130,000 people.
Source:
The Secretary forwarded the Commissioner's report to the President with his concurrence, repeating that the "enlargement of the Sioux reservation in Dakota" was "deemed necessary for the suppression of the liquor traffic with the Indians at the Standing Rock Agency." On March 16, 1875, the President issued a second executive order describing the tract
Source:
MORE ABOUT
South Dakota