Lakota

The Lakota ("friends" or "allies", sometimes also spelled "Lakhota") are a Native American tribe, also known as the Sioux (see Names). They form one of a group of seven tribes (the Great Sioux Nation or Seven Council Fires) that speak three different dialects, including Titonwan or Lakota proper, Santee or Dakota, and Nakoda. The Lakota, or Teton (Titonwon), are the westernmost of the three groups, occupying lands in both North and South Dakota. The Nakoda or Nakota, the smallest division, reside on the Yankton reservation in South Dakota, the Northern portion of Standing Rock Reservation, and Canada (the Stoney and Assiniboine), while the Dakota live mostly in Minnesota and Nebraska, but include bands in the Sisseton-Wahpeton, Flandreau, and Crow Creek Reservations in South Dakota.

Nakoda

The Nakoda are a branch of Sioux peoples who moved into northern Minnesota. They original constituted two main tribes: the Yankton ("campers at the end") and Yanktonai ("lesser campers at the end"). Later, the Stoney and Assiniboine bands also became prominent among Nakoda. Economically, the Nakoda were involved in quarrying pipestone.

Related Topics:
Minnesota - Assiniboine - Pipestone

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During the 19th Century, these people migrated or were forced west into Dakota Territory, and today, the Yankton Sioux Tribe occupies a reservation "without boundaries" on the east bank of the Missouri in south-central South Dakota. The Yanktonai are scattered in a number of reservations in North and South Dakota.

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