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!
Lewis and Clark (Orig. Jour., vi, 99, 1905) mention only two divisions, the Sheo and the Okandandas. According to the
Report of Indian Affairs for 1875 (p. 250), the Oglala were then divided
into four bands, "usually called Ogallallas, Kiocsies [Kiyuksa], Onkapas
[Oyukhpe], and Wazazies." The Rev. John Robinson in a letter to Dorsey
(1879) names the following divisions:
Payabya
Tapishlecha
Kiyuksa
Wazhazha
Iteshicha
Oyukhpe
Waglukhe
These correspond with the seven bands of Red
Cloud's pictographs. According to Rev. W. J. Cleveland (1884) they consist
of 20 bands, as follow: