Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

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The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Lakota Inyan Woslata Oyate is a federally recognized Indian tribe in North and South Dakota . The tribe is made up of different tribal groups of the Dakota , Lakota and Nakota , namely from Yanktonai , Hunkpapa and Sihasapa, with the Yanktonai inhabiting the northern part of the reserve, while the Lakota are primarily native to the south. According to the North Dakota State Indian Commission , the tribe has 15,568 enrolled members of the approximately 15,000 residents of the reservation. (As of 2017) Home of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is the Standing Rock Reservation . The Indian tribe became known worldwide through the protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline . The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is administered by the Standing Rock Agency of the Bureau of Indian Affairs . The government of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is called the Tribal Council of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe . The chairman of the government is (as of 2017) David Archambault II . Like many other American Indian tribes, the tribe operates game casinos . The tribe operates 2 game casinos on its reserve area. One of them is located south of the Cannon Ball settlement in the district of the same name called Prairie Knights Casino & Resort in North Dakota. Another casino is located in South Dakota on the Grand River near Wakpala, called Grand River Casino & Resort . The casinos are an important economic factor for the reserve and its residents. The most famous member of the tribe was Chief Sitting Bull , probably the most famous American Indian chief.

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The name Standing Rock was coined by the Indian agent James McLaughlin , who visited the reservation for the first time in 1881 and became the head of the agency. It refers to a sacred stone that was originally located five miles (eight kilometers) north of what is now Fort Yates at the confluence of Porcupine Creek with the Missouri . McLaughlin arranged for the Yanktonai to move the stone to Fort Yates. They repositioned it on Proposal Hill north of the Indian Agency.

A legend about the stone: Around 1740 a Yanktonai Nakota man is said to have married a second wife, a Cheyenne . His first wife is said to have been an Arikaree . Due to the cultural and linguistic differences, the two women did not get along and the first woman became very angry. When the man's group left for a new camp, the first woman refused to follow them and stayed in the old camp with her baby. Only in the evening did the man notice that his first wife and baby were missing. He asked his brother to look for her. He found the woman and the baby, but they had turned into a stone.

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  1. ^ Indian Commission State of North Dakota
  2. ↑ Bureau of Indian Affairs ( Memento of March 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ standingrock.org ( Memento from March 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has two casinos located near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, and the Grand River Casino near Wakpala, South Dakota.
  4. ^ Prologue to Lewis and Clark: The Mackay and Evans Expedition by W. Raymond Wood University of Oklahoma Press, page 107
  5. ↑ James H. Howard: Yanktonai ethnohistory: And the John K. Bear winter count . Plain Anthropologist Corp. 1976