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English: Map indicating the Lakota (Sioux) Indian territory as described in the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851) Date: ... territory, commonwealth, county, ...
The idea of an independent nation of the Lakota was advanced in 2007 by activist Russell Means and the Lakota Freedom Movement. The suggested territory would be an enclave within the borders of the United States , covering thousands of square miles in North Dakota , South Dakota , Nebraska , Wyoming , and Montana .
Lakota 1851 treaty territory (Area 408, 516, 584, 597, 598 and 632) Nearly half a century later, after the United States had built Fort Laramie without permission on Lakota and Arapaho land, it negotiated the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 to protect European-American travelers on the Oregon Trail. [18]
The Great Sioux Reservation was an Indian reservation created by the United States through treaty with the Sioux, principally the Lakota, who dominated the territory before its establishment. [1] In the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 , the reservation included lands west of the Missouri River in South Dakota and Nebraska , including all of present ...
A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to federally recognized tribes in the continental ... Lakota: South Dakota: 1,505: 343.40 (889.41) 46. ...
From 1866 to 1868, the Lakota fought the United States Army in the Wyoming Territory and the Montana Territory in what is known as Red Cloud's War (also referred to as the Bozeman War). The war is named after Red Cloud , a prominent Lakota chief who led the war against the United States following encroachment into the area by the U.S. military .
The combined areas show the westernmost land recognized as Arikara, Hidatsa and Mandan territory in the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851). [1]: 594–596 The United States came into possession of area 529 by executive order of April 12, 1870, and area 620 by executive order of July 13, 1880. [4]: map facing p. 112
The surviving Lakota fled, but U.S. cavalrymen pursued and killed many who were unarmed. In the end, U.S. forces killed at least 150 men, women, and children of the Lakota Sioux and wounded 51 (four men, and 47 women and children, some of whom died later); some estimates placed the number of dead at 300.