Sioux

The Great Sioux Nation or preferably the Seven Council Fires is comprised of seven smaller tribes, today their language is categorized into Lakota, Nakota or Dakota. Historically known that neighboring Obijwe called the Seven Council Fires an offensive term meaning "enemies" "people of the snake like river". It was upon their contact with the French around the mid-18th century that the Obijwe told them what they called the group. Resulting in the name "Nadousioux" given to the Seven Council Fires by the French and shortened over time by English Americans to "Sioux".

However, centuries prior to European contact - the Seven Council Fires lived in modern lower Mississippi, United States. Around the 17th Century groups began an migrating north, taking residence in modern day Wisconsin and Minnesota United States. Today the Seven Council Fires or Great Sioux Nation has 40,000 members living on reservations in five US states and two Canadian provinces.

In fact, many famous battles between the United States and European settlers were fought and led by Seven Council Fires leaders and great warriors. Notoriously known Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, the Black Hills, Battle of Little Big Horn, Plains Wars and Wounded Knee to name a few.

Visit the History Channel to see a short film about what happened to the Sioux after the Battle of Big Horn titled The Last of the Sioux. Ninety years after the massacre of more than 200 Sioux men, women and children at Wounded Knee in 1980 the United States Supreme Court ruled that the government illegally took the Black Hills land therefore violating the nearly twenty year old treaty that existed between the Sioux and the US government.