Great Sioux Nation - wikipedia Great Sioux Nation For the book, see The Great Sioux Nation ( book ). The Sioux people were united in a confederacy of seven members, called the Seven Fires Council. The Great Sioux Nation was the political structure of the Sioux in North America at the time of their contact with Europeans and Euro - Americans. Most of the peoples speaking a Siouan language were members of the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ ( pronounced ( oˈtʃhethi ʃaˈkowĩ ) ) or Seven Fires Council. The seven members are sometimes grouped into three regional / dialect groups ( Lakota, Western Dakota, and Eastern Dakota ), but these mid-level identities were not politically institutionalized. The seven smaller groups were separate members of one confederacy. Contents 1 Subdivisions 2 Controversy 3 Canada 4 See also 5 Further reading 6 References 7 External links Subdivisions The Great Sioux Nation is divided into three linguistically and regionally based groups and several subgroups. Linguistically, all three language groups belong to Siouan languages. Lakota ( also known as Lakȟóta, Thítȟuŋwaŋ also known as Teton, also known as Teton Sioux ) Northern Lakota ( Húŋkpapȟa, Sihásapa ) Central Lakota ( Mnikȟówožu, Itázipčho, Oóhenuŋpa ) Southern Lakota ( Oglála, Sičháŋǧu ) Western Dakota ( also known as Yankton - Yanktonai or Dakȟóta, and erroneously classified, for a very long time, as `` Nakota '' ) Yankton ( Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋ ) Yanktonai ( Iháŋktȟuŋwaŋna ) Eastern Dakota ( also known as Santee - Sisseton or Dakhóta ) Santee ( Isáŋyáthi : Bdewákhathuŋwaŋ, Waȟpékhute ) Sisseton ( Sisíthuŋwaŋ, Waȟpéthuŋwaŋ ) The term `` Great Sioux Nation '' is also sometimes applied to a hypothetical state in the western and midwestern United States, which would take in the following recognized Indian reservations : Oglala ( Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ) Sićangu ( Rosebud Indian Reservation ) Hunkpapa ( Standing Rock Indian Reservation / Cheyenne River Indian Reservation ) Minniconjou ( Cheyenne River Indian Reservation ) Sans Arc ( Cheyenne River Indian Reservation ) Two Kettles ( Cheyenne River Indian Reservation ) Crow Creek Indian Reservation Lower Brule Indian Reservation Santee Indian Reservation Yanktonai ( Yankton Sioux Indian Reservation ) Flandreau Indian Reservation Lake Traverse Indian Reservation ( Sisseton - Wahpehton ) Lower Sioux Upper Sioux Shakopee - Mdewakanton Prairie Island Standing Rock Indian Reservation Spirit Lake Tribe ( formerly Devil 's Lake Reservation ) The hypothetical state would also include the defunct Great Sioux reservation, which was divided into smaller portions in the 19th century, and other `` unceded Indian territory '' in four states, as well as parts of the following states : Montana Nebraska North Dakota South Dakota Wyoming The theoretical Great Sioux Nation occupies only parts of the United States where Sioux tribes have some legal claim with regard to treaties with the federal government. ( See, e.g., Treaty of Fort Laramie and map of treaty land in the External links section below. ) Historically, the Great Sioux Nation and the United States have had a turbulent relationship. The last of the great American Indian battles -- the Battle of Little Bighorn and the Wounded Knee Massacre -- were fought between these two peoples. Controversy Further information : United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians In one of the oldest, unresolved cases in US legal history, United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians 448 U.S. 371 ( 1980 ), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the United States was wrong in breaking the terms of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, which forever exempted the Black Hills from all - white settlement. When European Americans discovered gold there in 1874, miners swept into the area in a gold rush. The US government reassigned the Lakota, against their wishes, to other reservations in western South Dakota, breaking up the Great Sioux Reservation into smaller portions. The Supreme Court awarded eight Sioux tribes $106 million in compensation -- the 1877 value of $17.5 million, plus interest. The Sioux Nation has refused to accept the award, saying they want their land returned. The money is held in accounts at the Treasury Department, accruing interest. As of 2011, the accounts are estimated to be valued at over $1 billion. Canada The Assiniboine ( Nakota ), who live to the North of most of the Sioux peoples, speak a Siouan language closely related to the Sioux language. The Assiniboine were the first of the Siouan - speaking peoples to leave the Eastern Woodlands and move onto the Great Plains. They had developed as a separate people sometime before 1640, when they were first documented as a tribe by French missionaries. Because of this, other Sioux - speakers referred to them as the Hohe, or `` rebels ''. The Canadian Nakoda ( Stoney ) possibly began as the westernmost band of the Assiniboine, but were referred to as a separate people after about 1744. Later, in the ninetieth century, further bands belonging to the Dakota peoples and to a lesser extent to the Lakotas, also moved to Canada and their descendants still live in several of the Canadian First Nations. See also Great Sioux Reservation Siouxland, informal region Republic of Lakotah, proposal Further reading Decker, Doug. An Analysis of `` The Bradley Bill '' Proposing to Return the Black Hills to the Great Sioux Nation. ( Pierre, S.D. ) : South Dakota Legislative Research Council, 1987. Hans, Frederic Malon. The Great Sioux Nation ; A Complete History of Indian Life and Warfare in America. Minneapolis : Ross & Haines, 1964. Ortiz, Roxanne Dunbar. The Great Sioux Nation Sitting in Judgment on America. San Francisco : American Indian Treaty Council Information Center, Moon Books, 1977. Pommersheim, Frank, and John P. LaVelle. 2002. `` Toward a Great Sioux Nation Judicial Support Center and Supreme Court : An Interim Planning and Recommendation Report for the Wakpa Sica Historical Society 's Reconciliation Place Project ''. Wicazo Sa Review. 17, no. 1 : 183 - 232. South Dakota. The Great Sioux Nation. ( Pierre, S.D. ) : South Dakota Office of Tourism, 2006. References Jump up ^ For a report on the long - established blunder of misnaming `` Nakota '' the Yankton and the Yanktonai, see the article Nakota or read the introduction to the New Lakota Dictionary or the Lakota Grammar Handbook. Jump up ^ Pratt, Timothy ; Maria Streshinsky ( February 9, 2011 ). `` Saying No to $1 Billion ''. The Atlantic. Retrieved 2013 - 12 - 28. Jump up ^ Vickers, C. ( 1951 -- 1952 ). `` The Assiniboines of Manitoba ''. MHS Transactions. Manitoba Historical Society ( 3 ). Retrieved 7 December 2012. 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Question: what are the three tribes that make up the sioux nation
Answer: Lakota