People / group
Lakota people
The Lakota, or Teton Sioux, are the westernmost division of the Oceti Sakowin, made up of seven bands including the Oglala, Hunkpapa, Sicangu and Miniconjou. Moving west from Minnesota in the 18th century, they became mounted bison hunters and the leading power of the northern Plains, reaching the Black Hills by around 1776. Leaders such as Red Cloud, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse resisted US expansion until the late 1870s.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Lakota people. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/lakota-people
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