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Sihasapa
The Sihásapa or Blackfoot Sioux are a division of the Lakota people, Titonwan, or Teton. ''Sihásapa'' is the Lakota word for "Blackfoot", whereas '' Siksiká'' has the same meaning in the Nitsitapi language, and, together with the '' Kainah'' and the '' Piikani'' forms the ''Nitsitapi Confederacy''. As a result, the Sihásapa have the same English name as the Blackfoot Confederacy (correctly: Nitsitapi Confederacy), and the nations are sometimes confused with one another. The Sihásapa 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. Historic Sihásapa thiyóšpaye or Bands In 1880, John Grass provided a list of the bands (tiyóšpaye) of the Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kill Eagle
Waŋblí Kte (Kill Eagle; ca. 1827–1885) was a prominent leader of the Sihasapa (Blackfeet) band of Lakota people during the late nineteenth century. Early years Born about 1827, Kill Eagle was the son of a Brulé father and a Sihasapa mother. His father may have been the first leader of a small Sihasapa band known as the Wazhazha (not to be confused with a Brule/Oglala Lakota, Oglala band by the same name). Kill Eagle gained prominence through one of the "soldiers societies" (''akicita''). In 1864, he helped return the white captive, Fanny Kelly.''New York Herald'', 24 Sept., 6 Oct. 1876. By 1866, Kill Eagle had assumed his father's role as leader of the Wazhazha band (Sihasapa). He signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868), Treaty of 1868 at Fort Rice, agreeing to settle his band on the Great Sioux Reservation. By the early 1870s, his band was the second largest among the Sihasapa and had settled on the Missouri River near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, Standing Rock Ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |