Sioux Tribe Research Paper

The Sioux are a tribe of Native Americans that used to live in the states Iowa,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Nebraska, but thanks to the government now they live mostly in South Dakota. They are divided into three groups based on language. There are the groups that speak Nakota which are the Yankton and the Yanktonai. They live mostly in the states
North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa. The groups that speak Lakota are the Sans Arc, the Teton, the Oglala, the Two Kettles, the Minneconjou, the Hunkpapa, and the sihasapa,. They live mostly in the states North Dakota South Dakota and Nebraska. Finally, the groups that speak Dakota are the Sisseton, the Whapeton, the Mdewakanton, and the Whapekute, which mostly live in the states Minnesota, and Iowa. The Sioux believe in many spirits. One is The White Buffalo Woman. They believe that she gave each group a sacred pipe which the Sioux call medicine pipes and they believed if you smoked the pipe you would have visions. Another spirit is the thunder bird they believed that it is a huge bird that created storms. Their name for it is Wakyą which means “sacred winged”. It was believed …show more content…
The reason this battle took place is because the Ghost Dance was a religion created by a man named Wovoka. Wovoka said that if all of the Native Americans lived in peace and harmony, they would go to a paradise where they would not be threatened by the white people. This made the white officials mad and they banned the Ghost Dance. However, the Native Americans continued to do it. So the white people sent in troops. Some of the Native American leaders and their followers went north, but the troops caught up with them and killed Sitting Bill and seven of his Warriors. After this, most of the Native Americans who practiced the Ghost Dance were rounded up and half of them were killed by the