Lakota Sioux
Great Plains nation
The Lakota are a Native American people of the northern Great Plains, one of three divisions of the Sioux nation along with the Dakota and Nakota.
Historically buffalo hunters and horsemen, the Lakota include bands such as the Oglala and Hunkpapa.
They are associated with resistance leaders like Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, and with events like the Battle of Little Bighorn.
The Lakota Sioux reservation spans parts of South Dakota.
- Black HillsForested Dakota mountains
- Great PlainsCentral North American grassland
- Crazy HorseLakota war leader
- tribal councilIndigenous community's ruling body
- Wounded Knee Massacre1890 military killing of Lakota
winter counts · vision quest · treaty rights · beadwork · language · medicine wheel · oral tradition · tipi · storytelling · Sitting Bull · warrior societies · war bonnet · buffalo hunting · powwow · Ghost Dance · Red Cloud · Missouri River · bison
- Black HillsMount Rushmore, Rapid City, Deadwood, Sturgis, Black Hills
- reservationsreservation, booking, hotel reservation, room reservation, table reservation
- North DakotaBismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks, Badlands, Red River
Lakota SiouxU.S. Cavalry
Mounted American military force
George Custer · white settlers · homesteaders · U.S. government · European Americans