The Sihásapa or Blackfoot Sioux are a division of the
Lakota people
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, 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
The Blackfoot Confederacy, ''Niitsitapi'', or ''Siksikaitsitapi'' (ᖹᐟᒧᐧᒣᑯ, meaning "the people" or "Blackfoot language, Blackfoot-speaking real people"), is a historic collective name for linguistically related groups that make up ...
(correctly: Nitsitapi Confederacy), and the nations are sometimes confused with one another.
The Sihásapa lived in the western
Dakotas on the
Great Plains
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, 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 Sihasapa:
*Sihasapa-Hkcha or Sihasapa qtca ("Real Blackfoot")
*Kangi-shun Pegnake or Kanxicu pegnake ("Crow Feather Hair Ornaments" or "Wear raven feathers in their hair")
*Glaglahecha or Glagla heca ("Slovenly", "untidy" or "Too lazy to tie their moccasins")
*Wazhazha or Wajaje ("Osage"),
Kill Eagle's Band
*Hohe ("Rebels, i.e.
Assiniboine")
*Wamnuga Owin or Wamnugaoin ("Cowrie-Shell Earrings" or "Shell ear ornaments or Pendants")
Famous Sihásapa
* Cante Peta '
Fire Heart'
* Mahto Eennahpa '
White Bear'
* Magashapa '
Goose'
* Pezi '
Grass
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'
* Mahto Wakouah '
Charging Bear' alias Okihe Pezi '
Young Grass' alias '
John Grass'
* Wambli Kte '
Kill Eagle'
* Hohay
Notes
References
*Anderson, Harry H. "An Investigation of the Early Bands of the Saone Group of Teton Sioux." ''Washington Academy of Sciences Journal'' 46, no. 3 (1956): 87-94.
*Robinson, Doane. "A History of the Dakota or Sioux Indians from Their Earliest Traditions and First Contact with White Men to the Final Settlement of the Last of Them Upon Reservations and Consequent Abandonment of the Old Tribal Life." ''South Dakota Historical Collections'' 2, Part 2 (1904): 1-523.
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