Lakota Tribe Research Paper

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The Lakota are a Native American tribe also known to other tribes as the Sioux. They are part of a brand of seven tribes that speak three different dialects the other two being Dakota and Nakota. Historians are not sure were the Sioux languages speakers originated from, but they think that this tribe started out in the lower Mississippi River then later on migrated to the Ohio River. After 1720 the Lakota branch of seven council fire split down into two major sections, the Saône moved to Lake Traverse an area on South Dakota, North Dakota- Minnesota border, and the Oglála-Sičháŋǧu occupied the James River. However by 1750 the Saône and Oglála-Sičháŋǧu both moved to the bank of Missouri River. Crossing to the Missouri

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