Jake(Sioux)

The Sioux Tribal History
The Great Sioux Nation consist of both North and South Dakota, northern Nebraska, eastern Wyoming, and southeast Montana.
 * 1880**

This was the time of Louisiana Purchase and the start of the expansion into the western regions of North American leading to a dramatic decrease in buffalo population, an animal central to the Lakota way of life.
 * 1803**


 * Dakota War of 1862**
 * On November 5, 1862 the sioux were found guilty of rape and murder. They then led their whole tribal army to get back at what they did. Abraham Lincoln gave the tribe a death sentence of 284 tribal members.**

Red Clouds heads a winning fight closing off the Bozeman Trail, a passage that lead to the gold mines in Montana. This trail also ran straight through the traditional hunting grounds of the Teton, a branch of indians off the Sioux. Great descendants from the main tribe. The Great Sioux Reservation is established which included most South Dakota west of the Missouri River. The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 that authorized this pledged the government to keep whites out of this territory.
 * 1866-68**

1874
Gold is discovered in the black by General George A. Custer's expedition. A flood of prospectors engulfed the region invading indian territories and ways of life.

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June 25, General Custer attacked an Indian settlement. Sitting Bull, Gall, Crazy Horse, and many Cheyenne leaders defeated Custer and the 7th Calvary at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Custer lost all 200 men in the battle. ======

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U.S. Congress passes an act in March that split the Great Sioux Reservation into six smaller reservations. Some tribes began performing a religious ceremony meant to remove the whites and bring back the buffalo and their traditional way of life. This was called the Ghost Dance. ======

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On Standing Rock Reservation, Chief Sitting Bull is murdered. After this, Big Foot and his Minneconjou band seek refuge in Pine Ridge under Red Cloud. Over 250 members of the Big Foot band are massacred by the 7th Calvary on Dec. 29 at Wounded Knee. This clash has often been called the last major conflict between the U.S. Army and the Great Sioux Nation. ======

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 George S. Mickelson, South Dakota Governor, and several representative of the nine tribal governments in the state announce 1990 as a Year of Reconciliation. In 1991, a Century of Reconciliation is declared. ======

Sources:

[|Wikipedia.com] [|Siouxme.com] [|Sonofthesouth.com] Waldman, Carl. //Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes//. New York, NY: Carl Waldman, 1999. Print. Grant, Bruce. American Indians: Yesterday and Today. New York, NY: Bruce Grant, 1958. print