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Oceti Sakowin: Quick Facts

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Also Known As Oceti Ŝakowiŋ • Sioux • Dakota • Nadouessioux

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A Cheyenne River Sioux dancer in colorful traditional regalia performs during the Grand Entry at a powwow, with an American flag and other participants in the background.
Open book showing the title page of Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa and an illustration of a man bending toward a woman in a grassy clearing under a tree.
Red Cloud and American Horse
Lakota camp
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A bronze bust of an Indigenous American figure sits in a kitchen, overlaid with sacks of rice marked with a green check and milk with sugar cubes crossed out.
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Key People

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Little Crow
Oceti Sakowin leader
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull
Lakota chief
Red Cloud
Red Cloud
Oceti Sakowin chief
Spotted Tail
Spotted Tail
Sioux leader
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Erik Erikson
American psychoanalyst
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Ella Cara Deloria
Sioux scholar, ethnographer, writer, and translator
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John Reed Swanton
American anthropologist
Clark Wissler
Clark Wissler
American anthropologist
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Wilson D. Wallis
American anthropologist
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James Owen Dorsey
American ethnologist

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