Sioux Tribe/Nation
The Sioux, or Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires), are a large confederation of Siouan-speaking peoples whose territory spanned the Northern Great Plains from Minnesota to the Rocky Mountains. The confederation includes two major language divisions: the Dakota (Santee and Yankton-Yanktonai) and the Lakota (Teton). The Sioux were among the most significant Indigenous powers encountered during and after the Lewis and Clark Expedition, with the Teton Lakota famously confronting the expedition at the confluence of the Bad and Missouri rivers in 1804. Multiple Sioux bands entered into treaties with the United States at Portage des Sioux and other locations in the 1810s–1820s.
Portrait: George Catlin, "Ha-wón-je-tah, One Horn, Head Chief of the Miniconjou Tribe," 1832. Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Most Mentioned in Sioux Tribe/Nation-tagged Entries
People
- Capt Lewis (20)
- Clark (8)
- Drouillard (8)
- York (5)
- Captain Clarke (5)
- Patrick Gass (5)
- Colter (4)
- Shannon (4)
- Mr. Durion (4)
- Joseph Whitehouse (4)
Places
- Missouri River (17)
- Fort Mandan (5)
- Bad River (3)
- St. Peters (3)
- River Jacque (3)
- Teton River (3)
- Smoke creek (3)
- Elk island (3)
- Elm creek (3)
- Wash creek (3)
Territory & Encounter Locations
Note: the longest gap between tagged appearances is about 9 months (Apr 14, 1805 → Jan 9, 1806). No journal entries during that window were explicitly tagged with this nation.
Treaties (35)
Tent of Many Voices (1)
Journal Entries (73)
Weapons (1)
Cross-Narrator Analyses
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