While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Early explorers usually
distinguished these people into an Eastern or Forest and a Western or
prairie division. A more complete and accurate classification, one which
is also recognized by the people themselves, is the following:
1. Mdewakanton
2. Wahpeton
3. Wahpekute
4. Sisseton
5. Yankton
6. Yanktonai
7. Teton
each of which is again subdivided into bands and subbands. These seven
main divisions are often known as "the seven council fires." The first
four named together constitute the Isanyati, Santee, or eastern division,
of which the Mdewakanton appear to be the original nucleus, and speak one
dialect. Their home was in Minnesota prior to the outbreak of 1862. The
Yankton and Yanktonai, the latter subdivided into ((I) Upper and (b)
Hunkpatina or Lower, held the middle territory between Lake Traverse and
Missouri river in east Dakota, and together spoke one dialect, from which
the Assiniboin was an offshoot. The great Teton division, with its
subdivisions, Upper and Lower Brulé,
Oglala, Sans Arcs, Sihasapa or Blackfoot, Miniconjou, Oohenonpa or Two
Kettle, Hunkpapa, etc., and comprising together more than half the nation,
held the whole tribal territory west of the Missouri and spoke one
dialect.
The following are names of divisions, groups, or bands
that are spoken of as pertaining to the Dakota. Some of these have not
been identified; others are mere temporary geographical or local bands:
Black Tiger
Broken Arrows
Cascarba
Cazazhita
Chanshushka
Chasmuna
Cheokhba
Cheyenne Sioux
Congewichacha
Farmer's band
Fire Lodge
Flandreau Indians
Gens du Large
Grand Saux
Grey Eagle
Horheton
Late Comedu
Lean Bear
Long Sioux
Menostainenton
Micacoupsiba
White Eagle band
Minisha
Neecoweegee
Nehogatawonahs
Newastarton
Northern Sioux
Ocatamenetons
Ohalikaskatohyante
Oughetgeodatons
Oujatespouitons
Pehiptecila
Pineshow
Psinchaton
Psinoumanitons
Psinoutanhinhintons
Rattling Moccasin
Red Leg's band
Redwood
Shahsweentowahs
Sioux of the Broad Leaf
Sioux of the Des Moyan
Sioux of the East
Sioux of the Meadows
Sioux of the West
Sioux of the Woods
Sioux of the Lakes
Sioux of the River St Peter's
Souon
Star band
Talonapi
Tashunkeeota,
Tateibombu's band
Tatkannai
Ticicitan
Touchouasintons
Traverse de Sioux
Upper Sioux
Waktonila
White Cap Indians
Wiattachechah
