The Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Nation is also known as the Great Sioux Nation. The word Sioux was adopted by the United States government from the term (Nadowesioux), which comes from a Chippewa (Ojibwa) word which means little threatened snake or enemy. This was because the Ojibwa or Chippewa learned t...

In 1830's the Plains Indians were sent to the Great American Deserts in the west because Indians in white men's objectives did not deserve a good fertile land to live on. When the white men realized they could still use the land they gave the Natives because the land could support agricult...

The Battle of Little Big Horn started when the gold rush sent many settlers and prospectors through the Bozeman Trail. This trail crossed the Sioux Territory in the Great Plains region. This provoked conflict between the Sioux and the settlers, who were trying to reach the mining districts. Many ...

Leadership. It surrounds us. It is the fundamental element of the human condition. Wherever society exists, leadership exists. There are infinite variations of leadership among us. People routinely shift between leader and follower functions during a concise period. Specific leaders are well known a...

Sitting Bull was A Hunkpappa Lakota Chief and holy man under whom the Lakota tribe united on the Dakota plains. Sitting Bull fought the American Army. He didn't believe the American promises. He was born in 1831 on the Grand River in what is now South Dakota at a Lakota place called Many Ca...

Black Elk Speaks Black Elk was born into a tribe of the Plains Indians, the Ogallala Lakota. He had five sisters and one brother. He had many children, but his daughter, Lucy Looks Twice, is the one discussed in this essay. The Lakota were hunters, and they relied mainly on the buffal...