LAKOTA SIOUX History
Nomadic Hunters
1750-1800
Followed buffalo onto Plains
Transportation
foot
dog
horse
travois
History cont.
Political organization
Band
Seven Councils Fire
Prosperity
Trade
Hides
Horses
Guns
Alcohol
History cont.
Territorial
Defend hunting lands
Count coup
Disease
Alcohol
Struggle over land
History with US Government
1851 Fort Laramie Treaty
1868 Great Sioux Reservation
1877 Crazy Horse and Ogala surrender
1881 Sitting Bull, Gall and Tetons surrender
History with US cont.
1887
Allottment Act or Dawes Act
Threat of loss of rations
Assimilation
"Scratching the ground"
Revitatization
AFC Wallace
Ghost Dance
Wovoka
1890 Wounded Knee