Lakota / Sioux Territory

Overview

The Lakota are a Native American people. Also known as the Teton Sioux, they are one of the three prominent subcultures of the Sioux people, with the Eastern Dakota (Santee) and Western Dakota. Their current lands are in North and South Dakota. They speak Lakȟótiyapi — the Lakota language, the westernmost of three closely related languages that belong to the Siouan language family.

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Borders & accuracy

A pastoralist or hunter-gatherer range whose extent shifted constantly with seasons and alliances.

• SOURCEhand-crafted from scholarly atlases
• DETAILhand-traced-from:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sioux
• SNAPSHOT1850
• POLITY TYPEnomadic-range

Lakota/Sioux Plains territory at peak ~1850 (Treaty of Fort Laramie 1851): Missouri River west to Bighorn Mountains, north to Canadian border, south to Platte River.

Wars of this empire23

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

• Red Cloud's War1866–68
  Regional · 2.0K dead
• Great Sioux War1876–77
  Regional · 1.0K dead
• Black Hills War1876–77
  Regional · 500 dead
• Battle of Ash Hollow1855
  Regional
• Battle of Spirit Lake1857
  Regional
• Battle of Birch Coulee1862
  Regional
• Battle of Fort Ridgely1862
  Regional
• Battle of New Ulm1862
  Regional
• Battle of Big Mound1863
  Regional
• Battle of Dead Buffalo Lake1863
  Regional
• Battle of Stony Lake1863
  Regional
• Battle of Whitestone Hill1863
  Regional
• Battle of Killdeer Mountain1864
  Regional
• Battle of Platte Bridge1865
  Regional
• Fetterman Massacre1866
  Regional
• Battle of Hayfield Fight1867
  Regional
• Battle of Wagon Box Fight1867
  Regional
• Battle of Rosebud1876
  Regional
• Battle of Wolf Mountain1877
  Regional
• Battle of Fort Laramie1854
  Minor
• Battle of Fort Rice1865
  Minor
• Battle of Slim Buttes1876
  Minor
• Battle of Muddy Creek1877
  Minor