The Great Sioux Nation Case Study

The Great Sioux Nation
The Sioux Native Americans are a diverse tribe. There are three unions that make up seven different tribes that are distributed in the United States. The unions are the Dakota, or also known as the Santee, the Nakota, which makes up the Yankton and the Yanktonai tribes, and the final union is the Lakota, which makes up seven other tribes. The Santee Dakota can be found along the Minnesota River in what is now Minnesota. The Yankton Nakota migrated along the Missouri River in what is now southeastern South Dakota, and in southwestern Minnesota and northwestern Iowa. The Lakota settled the greatest west to the Black Hills region of what is now western South Dakota, eastern Wyoming, and eastern Montana (fofweb.com). We can still see many factors made
The tribes were made up of sub-tribes, which then were divided into other clans and bands of Sioux Indians. Each tribe was assigned a chief, who was chosen by their successfulness in war and by their ability to gain the public’s acceptance. The issues were dealt by the council in the tribe, which was made up of the community and elders. The moral codes of these Natives Americans were immensely important. The single act of being morally right could elevate a man into higher position of leadership. In each village, there were a set of “holy people” often called medicine man or priests. There were two different kinds of holy man; one could heal, bring good weather, or make the days hunt prosperous. The others could communicate with the spirits, andforesee the future, called shamans. Unlike the chiefs (that were always men) shamans or healers could be women. (galafilm.com). Popular culture has affected the governance system of the Sioux by spreading out the idea of “holy man” and “shamans” as uncommon or unreal. This could be seen as bad, because they lose some their earliest governance beliefs that were once the foundation of the