Nation
Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation) · oceti sakowin · great sioux nation · sioux nation · Great Sioux Nation · Seven Council Fires · Oceti Sakowin · Dakota · Ihanktunwanna · Ihanktunwun · Lakota · Mdewakantunwan · Nakota · Sisitunwan · Titunwan · Wahpekute · WahpetunwanOceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation)
Not yet reviewed by this nation. What follows comes from public records and research. It does not speak for the nation.
- Region
- Plains
In the record
The atlas records 2 broken treaty promises involving Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation): Fort Laramie 1868 and the Black Hills: abrogation by the Act of Feb. 28, 1877 and Dakota Access Pipeline and Lake Oahe (2016-2026): context, not an adjudicated treaty violation. One court case turned on its rights: United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians.
Today, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota and 10 more carry this history, as their own pages or research records say. Land has come back: Black Hills (He Sapa) claim and LANDBACK Mount Rushmore campaign and Pe' Sla returned to the Oceti Sakowin.
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
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.
Names
Each name shows where it comes from. A nation’s own name is shown as the nation writes it.
Self-names
- Oceti SakowinLakota/Dakota (Latin, unmarked)
Other names in English
Peoples within this name
- DakotaEnglish/Siouan
- IhanktunwannaNakota/Dakota (Latin)
- IhanktunwunNakota/Dakota (Latin)
- LakotaEnglish/Siouan
- MdewakantunwanDakota (Latin)
- NakotaEnglish/Siouan
- SisitunwanDakota (Latin)
- TitunwanLakota (Latin)
- WahpekuteDakota (Latin)
- WahpetunwanDakota (Latin)
Who is doing the work
This history belongs to living nations. Start with them:
- Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
- Crow Creek Sioux Tribe
- Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota
- Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana
- Lower Brule Sioux Tribe
- Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota
- Oglala Sioux Tribe
- Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of Minnesota
Working with these nations
- Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Oyate) Nation government Pe' Sla (1,942 acres, Nov 30, 2012)
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Lakota People's Law Project (program of Sacred Defense Fund) Native-led Legal advocacy Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Cheyenne River Youth Project (CRYP) Native-led Youth programs Website
- Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation (Lakota Land Systems) Native-led Lakota-led regenerative community development on Pine Ridge: Lakota Land Systems Give on their site Website
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
- Honor the Earth Native-led Pipeline resistance, sovereignty, energy justice Give on their site Website
- Indian Law Resource Center Native-led Legal assistance to Indigenous nations to protect lands, resources, treaty and human rights Give on their site Website
Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.
Connections
These links were matched automatically by name or date and have not yet been reviewed by a person.
Includes 17
Present-day governments that carry this history 16
- Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana
- Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
- Crow Creek Sioux Tribe
- Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota
- Lower Brule Sioux Tribe
- Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota
- Oglala Sioux Tribe
- Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of Minnesota
- Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Oyate)
- Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska
- Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota
- Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate
Named in 5
- Fort Laramie 1868 and the Black Hills: abrogation by the Act of Feb. 28, 18771874
- Black Hills (He Sapa) claim and LANDBACK Mount Rushmore campaign1877
- United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians1980
- Pe' Sla returned to the Oceti Sakowin2012
- Dakota Access Pipeline and Lake Oahe (2016-2026): context, not an adjudicated treaty violation2016
Organizations that work with this nation 3
Sources
- plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.na.107.htmlreference work
The Great Sioux Nation, known as Oceti Sakowin, or "Seven Council Fires,"
- cheyenneriversioux.com/historyunclassified
these are the seven bands of the Titunwan
- rosebudsiouxtribe-nsn.gov/history-culturereference work
descendants of the Sicangu Oyate of the Tetonwan Division of the Oceti Sakowin or Seven Council Fires
Research notes
Label as printed in tribe-org-map and campaigns-seed. Treaty records say "Sioux".
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