Information: - Lakota ("Lakotiyapi"), also referred to as Lakhota, Teton or Teton Sioux, is a Siouan language spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes. Though generally taught and considered by speakers as a separate language, Lakota is mutually intelligible with the other two languages (cf. Dakota language), and is considered by most linguists one of the three major varieties of the Sioux language. The Lakota language represents one of the largest Native American language speech communities in the United States, with approximately 2,000 speakers living mostly in northern plains states of North Dakota and South Dakota. There is a Lakota language program online available for children to use. There is also a Lakota Language Program with classes for children at Red Cloud Indian School. - North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere. It can also be considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, and to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea. - The Sioux are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations peoples in North America. The term can refer to any ethnic group within the Great Sioux Nation or to any of the nation's many language dialects. The Sioux comprise three major divisions based on language divisions: the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota. - The Great Plains is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie states and east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada. This area covers parts, but not all, of the states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming, Minnesota, Iowa and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The region is known for supporting extensive cattle ranching and dry farming. - The Lakota people (pronounced ; also known as Teton, Thituwa ("prairie dwellers"), and Teton Sioux are part of a confederation of seven related Sioux tribes, the Ohethi Sakowi or seven council fires, and as such one of the indigenous peoples of the Great Plains of North America. They speak the Lakota language, the westernmost of the three Siouan language groups, occupying lands in both North and South Dakota. - The Sihasapa or Blackfoot Sioux are a division of the Lakota people , Titonwan , or Teton . Sihasapa is the Lakota word for '' Blackfoot '' , whereas Siksika has the same meaning in the Blackfoot language . As a result , the Sihasapa have the same English name as the Blackfoot Confederacy , and the nations are sometimes are confused with one another . The Sihasapa lived in the western Dakotas on the Great Plains , and consequently are among the Plains Indians . Their official residence today is the Standing Rock Reservation in North and South Dakota and the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota , home also to the Itazipco ( No Bows ) , the Minneconjou ( People Who Live Near Water ) and Oohenumpa ( Two Kettle ) , all bands of the Lakota . - South Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes, who compose a significant portion of the population and historically dominated the entire territory. South Dakota is the 17th most expansive, but the 5th least populous and the 5th least densely populated of the 50 United States. Once the southern portion of the Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889, simultaneously with North Dakota. Pierre is the state capital and Sioux Falls, with a population of about 171,000, is South Dakota's largest city. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'instance of' with the subject 'sihasapa'. Choices: - city - confederation - continent - council - ethnic group - first nations - group - indigenous peoples - language - nation - ocean - part - people - plain - population - prairie - region - river - speech - state - steppe - subcontinent - three
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