The Great Plains Indians Complete Text - Lingua

The two groups eventually made an informal division. Eventually the Northern
Cheyenne and Arapahoe would ally themselves with the Sioux in the battle for the
Northern Plains and the Southern Cheyenne and Arapahoe would ally themselves
with the Caddoan and the Comanche in the battle for the Southern Plains. It has
been said that no tribe suffered more during the Indian wars than the Cheyenne.
Sioux
Horse mounted 94 , riding into battle against the cavalry, wearing long buffalo robes,
smoking the peace pipe in a colorfully painted tepee, for most Americans today these
are the images of what the American Indian was like.
These are actually images of only the Plains Indians, more than likely the Sioux. The
Sioux also known as the Lakota, the Dakota and the Nakota were originally a
Woodland Indian tribe that dominated the southern two-thirds of Minnesota as well as
parts of Wisconsin, Iowa and North and South Dakota.
Unlike their neighboring Algonquian speaking Woodland Indians, the Sioux spoke
their own language, Siouan.
There were four ancestral branches of the Sioux:
The Santee, which was made up of four distinct bands 95 .
The Yankton, with only one band.
The Yanktonai, formed from three bands and the largest and best known band of the
Sioux:
The Teton, also known as the Lakota. It included the Ogalala band, the Brul, the
Hunkpapa and the Miniconju and three lesser known bands.
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