page_title: Sioux
section_title: Contemporary
hierarchical_section_title: Sioux / Notable Sioux / Contemporary
caption_attribution_description: High resolution image of MOH recipient, United States ANG Master Sergeant Woodrow Wilson Keeble.
context_page_description: The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations peoples in North America. The modern Sioux consist of two major divisions based on language divisions: the Dakota and Lakota; collectively they are known as the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ. The term "Sioux" is an exonym created from a French transcription of the Ojibwe term "Nadouessioux", and can refer to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or to any of the nation's many language dialects.
  Before the 17th century, the Santee Dakota lived around Lake Superior with territories in present-day northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. They gathered wild rice, hunted woodland animals and used canoes to fish. Wars with the Ojibwe throughout the 1700s pushed the Dakota into southern Minnesota, where the Western Dakota and Teton were residing. In the 1800s, the Dakota signed treaties with the United States, ceding much of their land in Minnesota. Failure of the United States to make treaty payments on time, as well as low food supplies, led to the Dakota War of 1862, which resulted in the Dakota being exiled from Minnesota to numerous reservations in Nebraska, North and South Dakota and Canada.
context_section_description: Contemporary Sioux people are listed under the tribes to which they belong.
  Category:Sioux people
  Assiniboine people
  Lakota
  Hunkpapa
  Oglala
  Sicangu
  Dakota people
  Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation
  Woodrow W. Keeble
caption: Woodrow Keeble, Medal of Honor recipient.
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