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Lakota

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The United States made 4 treaties and agreements that name Lakota as a party, from Teton at Portage des Sioux (1815) to Black Hills Agreement (Act of February 28, 1877), Lakota.

The atlas records 4 broken treaty promises involving Lakota: Fort Laramie 1851: Pike's Peak gold rush invades treaty territory, Fort Laramie 1868 and the Black Hills: abrogation by the Act of Feb. 28, 1877, Act of March 2, 1889: the Great Sioux Reservation divided and about 9 million acres opened and 1 more. 3 court cases turned on their rights: Ex parte Crow Dog, Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip and United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians.

The records group it with Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation), Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and Sioux (as named in treaty records). Today, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Oyate) and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe carry this history, as their own pages or research records say. Land has come back: Cheyenne River Youth Project buys land beside Bear Butte.

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.

The record over time

178018001850190019502000todayTreatiesBlack Hills Agreement (Act of February 28, 1877), Lakota (1876)Teton at Portage des Sioux (1815) (1815)Sioux (Teton, Yankton, and Yanktonai) at Fort Look-out Near the Three Rivers of the Sioux Pass (1825) (1825)Treaty of Fort Laramie (Horse Creek), 1851 (1851)Promises brokenFort Laramie 1851: Pike's Peak gold rush invades treaty territory (1858)Fort Laramie 1868 and the Black Hills: abrogation by the Act of Feb. 28, 1877 (1874)Act of March 2, 1889: the Great Sioux Reservation divided and about 9 million acres opened (1889)Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip (1977): the 1904 Act diminishes the Rosebud Reservation (1904)In courtEx parte Crow Dog (1883)Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip (1977)United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians (1980)Land returnedCheyenne River Youth Project buys land beside Bear Butte (2024)

Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.

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Named in 8

Present-day governments that carry this history 6

Party to 4

Part of 3

Organizations that work with this nation 3

Sources

  1. standingrock.org/about/history/unclassified
    The Lakota, as the largest division of the Sioux, subdivided into the Ti Sakowin or Seven Tents
  2. plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.na.107.htmlreference work
    The western council fire is occupied by the Titunwans (Tetons), Lakota speakers, composed of seven sub-bands
  3. cheyenneriversioux.com/historyunclassified
    they would proudly teach that these are the seven bands of the Titunwan
  4. rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/history-culturereference work
    descendants of the Sicangu Oyate of the Tetonwan Division of the Oceti Sakowin
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