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TNB->Souix Nation: "New" pemmican energy bar going on the market
Posted on Thursday, September 27 @ 02:36:59 CDT (3795 reads)

Native American Natural Foods Set to launch Tanka Bars Oct. 5-7, 2007. Pine Ridge-based company creates "new" food category with buffalo energy bars based on old pemmican recipes.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Indian people knew the universe and followed the stars
Posted on Sunday, May 06 @ 19:03:23 CDT (4171 reads)

AUTHOR: Tim Giago

The so-called oral histories of many of the Indian tribes are often based on actual events, even those deemed as myths. If one takes the time to study the prophecies and the medicine of the Hopi, Lakota and other Indian nations, I believe they would be startled to find that so many of these predictions and cures are true.

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TNB->Souix Nation: The Nakota, Lakota and Dakota Nations
Posted on Tuesday, December 27 @ 16:29:40 CST (14964 reads)

Anonymous writes

When Columbus landed in 1492, the Indigenous Red Nations and Peoples he met were gracious and friendly, as they had always been. Unfortunately, columbus murdered many of those “Indians” and took many back to Europe as “slaves”. This historical fact is discarded by u.s. schools and instead the “Hitler-Columbus” is celebrated as some type of “hero” while Indigenous existence, human rights, and nationhood is ignored

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TNB->Souix Nation: Mary Brave Bird, Lakota Sioux (1956-?)
Posted on Monday, April 18 @ 01:44:52 CDT (15361 reads)

Mary Brave Bird dictated her life story in the two books Lakota Woman and Ohitika Woman to Richard Erdoes, a photographer and illustrator who himself became involved in political activism through having taped and transcribed her story. In these two books, written 15 years apart, Brave Bird told how the American Indian Movement (AIM) gave meaning to her life. Lakota Woman, written under the name Mary Crow Dog, portrays her life from her birth to 1977, and Ohitika Woman written under her current name of Mary Brave Bird, covers events up to 1992 and adds new details to the earlier history.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Susan La Flesche, Sioux (1865-1915)
Posted on Monday, April 18 @ 00:30:21 CDT (3481 reads)

Susan La Flesche was the first female Indian physician.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Ella Carla Deloria (Anpetu Wastewin), Yankton Sioux (1888-1971)
Posted on Monday, April 18 @ 00:27:03 CDT (3838 reads)

Anpetu Wastewin, from anpetu "day," waste "good," win "woman," was a Yankton Sioux scholar, interpreter, and lecturer who became a nationally famous linguist and ethnologist. She was born January 3, 1888 at Wakpala, South Dakota, the daughter of Reverend and Mrs. Philip Deloria (Tipi Sapa).

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TNB->Souix Nation: Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, Yankton Sioux (1875-1938)
Posted on Sunday, April 17 @ 23:37:55 CDT (3500 reads)

Zitkala-sa, "Red Bird,"a Yankton Sioux reformer and writer was one of a number of White-educated Indians who fought to obtain fairer treatment for her people by the federal government. She was born on February 22, 1875, the daughter of John Haysting Simmons and Ellen Tate'Iyohiwin, "Reaches for the Wind." Educated on the reservation until the age of 8, she was sent to White's Institute, a Quaker school in Wabash, Indiana. At the age of 19, against her family's wishes, she enrolled at Earlham College, in Richmond, where she won an oratorical contest, then graduated to become a teacher at the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania.

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TNB->Souix Nation: The Sioux Name Game
Posted on Monday, March 28 @ 07:34:52 CST (4350 reads)

Today there are 18 First Nations in Canada and 17 Tribes in the United States who are the descendants of the Ocheti Sakowin. The Ocheti Sakowin speak three main dialects, Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota, that in time have evolved into a number of sub dialects.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Ohiyesa speaks of Sioux tribal traditions
Posted on Sunday, October 31 @ 13:11:30 CST (13538 reads)

Ohiyesa speaks of Sioux tribal traditions... KEYWORDS: Ohiyesa tribal traditions sioux culture sioux spirituality sioux beliefs on death sioux religious teachings sioux medicine sioux animal spirits sioux marriage customs sioux women souix names sioux property division sioux warfare traditions sioux moral standards teachings of Ohiyesa Charles Alexander Eastman

Excerpts from the book "The Soul Of The Indian" by Ohiyesa (Charles Alexander Eastman), first published in 1911 by the University of Nebraska Press.

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TNB->Souix Nation: At Rosebud a proud buffalo nation carries on
Posted on Tuesday, June 29 @ 07:14:35 CDT (3988 reads)

KEYWORDS: Rosebud reservation Lakota Pte Lakota in the Black Hills origin stories Great Sioux Nation Lower Brule Reservation Sicangu Sioux Spotted Tail Sinte Gleska Crow Dog last chief of the Sincagu Lakota Oyate

AUTHOR: David Melmer

Origin stories tell of life beginning for the Lakota in a cave that is located in what is now Wind Cave National Park on the southern edge of the Black Hills of South Dakota.

The people emerged from the cave to join their relatives the Pte or buffalo, which were to assist the people by sustaining life and providing shelter, clothing and tools.

The Lakota were nomadic; moving from the Great Plains to the Great Lakes and then to what is now North Carolina and back to Minnesota and then once again to the Black Hills.

Victor Douville, Rosebud historian, said that star knowledge puts the Lakota in the Black Hills in 1700 B.C.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Where did the Blackfoot Sioux live in the 1700-1800s?
Posted on Monday, January 12 @ 03:59:07 CST (57738 reads)

A reader asks:

I am doing genealogy...researching a Blackfoot Lakota Sioux relative. Other relatives dispute this relative being Blackfoot or Blackfoot Lakota Sioux because of where she met and married her husband. Marriage MAY have occured at Lake Michigan. Can you give me any information on where the Blackfoot or Blackfoot Lakota Sioux tribes lived (in Canada and US) during this time frame?

Click the "read more" link to find the answer.

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TNB->Souix Nation: The Lakota (Sioux Tribes, Nations & Bands)
Posted on Monday, January 12 @ 00:24:39 CST (25357 reads)

KEYWORDS: Lakota Dakota Nakota sioux tribes sioux sub-tribes sioux sub tribes sioux bands sioux indians Lakota Indians

The Lakota ("friends" or "allies", sometimes also spelled "Lakhota" by native people, and pronounced "Lak ó ta" by the Lakota people) are a Native American tribe, also known as the Sioux. The Lakota are part of a band of seven tribes that speak three different dialects, the other two being the Dakota and the Nakota. The Lakota are the western most of the three groups, occupying lands in both North and South Dakota. The Nakota, the smallest division, reside on the Yankton reservation in South Dakota, while the Dakota live mostly in Minnesota and Nebraska.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Mdewakanton Dakota tribe restoring forgotten tribal traditions
Posted on Sunday, November 09 @ 21:58:54 CST (11657 reads)

KEYWORDS: Chief Wabasha Lower Sioux Indian Community Minnesota Indians american indians Dakota Sioux Mdewakanton Dakota Bluestone Goodthunders Mdewakanton Dakota ancestors Indian Wars Jackpot Junction Indian Casino lower sioux casino Mankato hangings Cans'a yapi meaning of lower sioux traditional name Buffalo Horse Camp Minnesota Indian reservation lost tribal traditions Indian culture

AUTHOR: Renee Ruble

MORTON, Minn. - Gripping a cane tightly, Ernest Wabasha slowly reached to touch a pair of heavy iron shackles hanging from his mantel - the same shackles his great-grandfather, the legendary Chief Wabasha, wore during a forced march across the southwestern Minnesota plains a century ago.

A portrait of Chief Wabasha hung nearby, surrounded by the strong faces of the Wabasha line before and after. The most recent are photos of Ernest and his son, Wabasha No. 6 and No. 7.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Statement of the Tetuwan Oyate, Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council, Against the U
Posted on Wednesday, April 16 @ 16:58:55 CDT (8310 reads)

KEYWORDS: war in Iraq Lakota people Lakota Nation violation of international treaties Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council mass murder Saddam Hussein freeing the Iraqi people hidden agenda in the Middle East

AUTHOR: Tetuwan Oyate, Teton Sioux Nation Treaty Council

In the fall of 1875, the United States government issued an ultimatum to a nation of people that stood in the way of their advancement across the North American continent. The Lakota people were given a few weeks to leave their own country and return to a reservation established by the Americans "or be considered 'hostiles' subject to forced removal." The Lakota refusal to heed the ultimatum resulted in a war that included the charge of the 7th Cavalry under the command of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his ultimate defeat on June 25, 1876.

On March 18, 2003 George W. Bush issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Iraqi President Sadaam Hussein and his sons to go into exile or face "military conflict." Shortly after the world listened to the American president's demands, the assault and invasion by American troops began. Again, the 7th cavalry is advancing on a city of people living on their own terms in their own territory.

If America, or the world for that matter, wants to understand the American mind-set behind the war in Iraq, it's simple. Ask an Indian.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Lakota voices in Stronghold camp defend Ghost Dancers
Posted on Saturday, November 23 @ 10:37:01 CST (9558 reads)

KEYWORDS: Ghost Dancers Lakota Stronghold Paiute Wovoka Lakota voices Wounded Knee massacre Stronghold Table Paiute Northern Cheyenne Northern Arapaho elder Archie Little Percy White Plume Tokala Society Kit Fox Society Badlands Lakota Land Alliance Lakota medicine men stronghold of Crazy Horse National Park Service Lakota elder Archie Little Tagliskawakan trafficking of Indian remains spiritual laws Indian graves Oglala fossil-hunters Denver Museum of Nature and Science Center on Human Rights and Indian Law Oglala President John Yellowbird Steele

AUTHOR: Brenda Norrell, Pechanga Net

PINE RIDGE, S.D. - There is only the light of a quarter-moon and a canopy of shooting stars when Lakota voices in Stronghold camp say, "They are coming."

In the distance, fourteen Lakota horseback riders, some riding bareback, are approaching on the same route that survivors of the massacre of Wounded Knee followed 112 years ago.

Here on Stronghold Table they Ghost Danced so the people would live and they were massacred. Now, the remains of men, women and children -- Lakota, Paiute, Northern Cheyenne, Northern Arapaho and other tribes -- are apart of this earth.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe Overview
Posted on Wednesday, January 30 @ 23:51:59 CST (9135 reads)

The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe is a member of the Isanti division of the Great Dakota (Sioux) Nation.

The Tribe is composed of descendants of the Isanti people. The Isanti is comprised of four bands (Mdewakanton, Wahpetowan, Wahpekute, and Sissetowan) that lived on the eastern side of the Great Sioux Nation.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota Overview
Posted on Wednesday, January 30 @ 23:44:58 CST (14199 reads)

The Yankton Sioux Reservation is located in the south central part of South Dakota, occupying the eastern half of Charles Mix County.

The Yankton Service Unit provides services to the Yankton Sioux Tribe, the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska, and the Northern Ponca Tribe of Nebraska.

The Yankton Sioux are the most populous tribe in the service unit. Although many of the Yankton refer to themselves as Dakota, they are actually a group of the Middle Sioux division also known as Nakota.

There are also members of the Northern Ponca Tribe residing within the region as well as Santee Sioux. BIA estimates tribal membership at 5,700.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe Overview
Posted on Wednesday, January 30 @ 12:22:15 CST (11525 reads)

The Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe is a member of the Sissitowan division of the Great Sioux Nation.

The Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe is composed of descendants of the Isanti people. The Isanti is comprised of four bands that lived on the eastern side of the Great Sioux Nation. The Isanti speak the 'D' dialect of Siouan language.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska Overview
Posted on Wednesday, January 30 @ 12:17:22 CST (12380 reads)

The Santee Sioux Tribe consists of the members of the Isanti and Ihanktowan divisions of the Great Sioux Nation.

The Santee Sioux Tribe is composed of descendants of two Divisions of Dakota and Nakota people. The Ihanktowan, or Yankton and Yanktonais are called the Middle Sioux.

The Isanti or Dakota people are comprised of four bands that lived on the eastern side of the Dakota Nation. The Isanti and Ihanktowan speak the 'D' and ‘N’ dialect of Siouan language. Both were a river-plains people who did some farming as well as buffalo hunting.

The government identified all the Tribes with similar languages as the Sioux people.

The oral tradition of our people state that the Lakota and Dakota people were one nation. The Lakota people broke away and formed their own nation.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Rosebud Sioux Tribe Overview
Posted on Wednesday, January 30 @ 02:44:44 CST (10485 reads)

The Rosebud Sioux Tribal members are descendants of the Sicangu Oyate of the Tetonwan Division of the Great Sioux Nation.

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe includes the Sicangu or Brule Tribe of the Lakota Nation also known as the Heyata Wicasa or Upper Brule.

The Lakota Nation includes Upper Brule, Lower Brule, Oglala, Hunkpapa, Blackfoot, Minnecoujou, Sans Arcs, and Two Kettle.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Pine Ridge Reservation: Home of the Oglala Sioux
Posted on Wednesday, January 30 @ 02:03:51 CST (12578 reads)

The Pine Ridge reservation is home to the Oglala Sioux Tribe.

The Oglala Sioux Tribal members are descendants of the Tetonwan Division of the Great Sioux Nation.

The Lakota Nation includes Oglala, Brule, Hunkpapa, Blackfoot, Minnecoujou, No Bows and Two Kettle.

The Yankton and Yanktonais are called the Wiceyala or Middle Sioux.

Four bands of the Isanti, or Stone Knife People, including the Mdewankanton, Wahpetonwan, Wahpekute, and Sissetonwan comprise the Eastern Division of the Sioux Nation.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Overview
Posted on Wednesday, January 30 @ 01:45:00 CST (14566 reads)

The Kul Wicasa Oyate or Lower Brule Sioux Tribe are a Tribe of the Sicangu, or Burned Thighs, named the Brule’ by the French traders in the days prior to diplomatic relations with the United States government.

The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe has always been known among the Lakota Nation as the Kul Wicasa Oyate and with the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, or Upper Brules composed the Sicangu Oyate, the Burned Thighs.

The Lakota Nation or Great Sioux Nation includes the Oglala, Brule, Minnecoujou, Hunkpapa, Blackfeet, Without Bows and Two Kettle. The Lakotas speak an 'L' dialect of Siouan language and were expert horsemen and buffalo hunters on the plains.

The Ihanktowan, or Yankton and Yanktonais are called the Wicayela or Middle Sioux.

The Isanti people are comprised of four bands that lived on the eastern side of the Lakota/Dakota Nation. The Isanti and Ihanktowan speak the 'D' and ‘N’ dialect of Siouan language. Both were a river-plains people who did some farming as well as buffalo hunting.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes Overview
Posted on Wednesday, January 30 @ 01:34:19 CST (18520 reads)

The Assiniboine and Sioux Tribe includes descendants of seven bands. Fort Peck Reservation is home to two separate Indian nations, each composed of numerous bands and divisions.

The Sioux divisions of Sisseton/Wahpetons, the Yantonais, and the Teton Hunkpapa are all represented. The Assiniboine bands of Canoe Paddler and Red Button are represented and practice their culture and religion.

The Sioux Tribes include the bands of Yankton, Yanktonias, Hunkpapa, Cutheads, and Oglalas (who later joined the Tribe).The government identified all the Tribes with similar languages as the Sioux people.

The oral tradition of the Sioux people state that the Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota people were one nation. The Lakota people broke away and formed their own nations.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Devil's Lake Sioux Tribe Overview
Posted on Wednesday, January 30 @ 01:28:06 CST (6338 reads)

The Fort Totten Service Unit serves 4,439 Indians of the Devils Lake Sioux Indian Reservation according to the Indian Health Service (IHS) User Population Estimates for FY-1991.

The Indian population density of the service unit is approximately 1 person per square mile.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Overview
Posted on Tuesday, January 29 @ 02:21:36 CST (9911 reads)

The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe consists of the members of the Isanti and Ihanktowan divisions of the Great Sioux Nation.

The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe is composed of descendants of two Divisions of Dakota and Nakota people. The Ihanktowan, or Yankton and Yanktonais are called the Middle Sioux.

The Isanti or Dakota people are comprised of four bands that lived on the eastern side of the Dakota Nation. The Isanti and Ihanktowan speak the 'D' and ‘N’ dialect of Siouan language. Both were a river-plains people who did some farming as well as buffalo hunting.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Overview
Posted on Tuesday, January 29 @ 02:02:25 CST (13693 reads)

The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal members are descendants of the Tetonwan Division of the Great Sioux Nation. The four Tribes include the Minneconjou, Itazapcosni, Sihasapa and the Oehe Numpa.

The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe includes the Tribes of Plants by the River, No Bows, Blackfoot, and the Two Kettle of the Lakota Nation. The Lakota Nation includes Oglala, Brule, Hunkpapa, Blackfoot, Minnecoujou, No Bows and Two Kettle.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Overview
Posted on Tuesday, January 29 @ 00:57:23 CST (12776 reads)

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribal members are descendants of the Teton and Yankton Bands of the Lakota/Dakota Nations.

The Great Sioux Nation is also called The Lakota Nation, Tetons and the Western Sioux. The people of the Sioux Nation refer to themselves as Lakota/Dakota which means friend or allie.

The United States government took the word Sioux from (Nadowesioux), which comes from a Chippewa (Ojibway) word which means little snake or enemy.

The French traders and trappers who worked with the Chippewa (Ojibway) people shortened the word to Sioux.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Makes History With Grant to The American In
Posted on Wednesday, December 19 @ 02:03:51 CST (4544 reads)

AUTHOR: Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Press Release

The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community's $900,000 donation is the first of its kind from an Indian tribe.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Lower Sioux Iindian Community of Minnesota Mdewakanton Sioux Indians of the Low
Posted on Sunday, July 22 @ 07:57:48 CDT (4698 reads)

Be the first to submit an article about the Lower Sioux Iindian Community of Minnesota Mdewakanton Sioux Indians of the Lower Sioux Reservation in Minnesota.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation
Posted on Sunday, July 22 @ 07:56:06 CDT (2308 reads)

Be the first to submit an article about the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota
Posted on Friday, July 20 @ 21:00:42 CDT (6718 reads)

Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota... KEYWORDS: flandreau sioux santee sioux sioux tribe isanti sioux dakota sioux south dakota tribe south dakota indians Little Crow's war Minnesota indians Isanti Dakota North Dakota Indians South Dakota Indians great sioux nation

The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe is a member of the Isanti division of the Great Dakota (Sioux) Nation. Many of the Tribal members were relocated to the reservation after Little Crow’s War in Minnesota.

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TNB->Souix Nation: Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation
Posted on Friday, July 20 @ 20:29:43 CDT (11021 reads)

Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation... KEYWORDS: crow creek sioux tribe crow creek reservation rez great sioux nation Little Crow's War

The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe consists of the members of the Isanti and Ihanktowan divisions of the Great Sioux Nation. The Tribe was relocated to the reservation after Little Crow’s War in Minnesota originally designated reservation lands along the Missouri River recognized in a treaty with the United States was signed in 1863.

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