Earthw7,
By your naming, I count 5 groups; hardly Oceti Sakowin or Seven Council Fires.
Yankton, Yanktonai, Sisseton, Wahpekute, Mdewakaton, Wahpeton and the Teton
This was the way the tribes names were spelled on the figure I posted, if you took the time to look. If you did not, click on the link below, so you may have a better understanding of what
was the Oceti Sakowin/ 7 Council Fires.
img651.imageshack.us/img651/9306/sevencouncilfires.jpgRecent scholars, such as Raymond DeMallie, divide the Sioux into three groups (Teton, Yankton-Yanktonai, and Santee), not using the traditional division of Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota of earlier scholars. The eastern Sioux, known collectively as the Santees or Isantis, are the Sissetonwans (Sissetons),Wahpekutewans (Wahpekutes), Wahpetonwans (Wahpetons), and Mdewankantonwans (Mdewakantons). The western Sioux are the Titonwans (Tetons). The middle Sioux are the Ihanktonwannas (Yanktonais) and the Ihanktonwans (Yanktons).
Source: Bruguier, "Yankton Sioux," 19-20; Powers,
Oglala Religion, 16-17; Woolworth,
Sioux Indians III, 8; DeMallie, "Sioux until 1850," 727-32.
YANKTON (MIDDLE SIOUX)1. Yankton (People of the End Village)YANKTON BANDS
Lower Bands
a. Cagu (Lungs) Struck by the Ree's Band
b. Oyate Sica (Bad Nation)
c. Waceunpa (Roasters or the One that Cook)
d. Igmu (Cat People)
Upper Bands
e. Iha Ishdaye (Mouth Greasers)
f. Wakmuha Oin ( Pumpkin Rind Earrings)
g. Cankute (Shooters at Trees)
In the Yankton census of 1887 the BIA lists the Yankton population by band for the last time, leaving out the Dakota name of the band.
Band One: Struck by the Ree's Band
Band Two: Jumping Thunder's Band
Band Three: Medicine Cow's Band
Band Four: White Swans's Band
Band Five: William Beans, Sr.'s Band
Band Six: Feather In His Ear's Band
Band Seven: Frank Janron, Sr.'s Band
In the 1860s, the government established an eighth band, called Wasiun Cinca (white man's sons or "half-breeds"), with Philip J. Deloria as the band chief.
2. Yanktonai (Little People at the End Village)SANTEE (EASTERN SIOUX)3. Mdewakanton (Spirit Lake People)
4. Wahpeton (Dwellers among the Leaves)
5. Sisseton (People of the Boggy Ground)
6. Wahpekute (Shooters among the Leaves)
TETON (WESTERN SIOUX)7. Teton (Dwellers of the Prairie)
TETON
BANDSa. Oglala (They Scatter Their Own)
b. Sicangu or Brule (Brunt Thighs)
c. Hunkpapa (Campers at the End of the Circle)
d. Minneconjou (Planters beside the Water)
e. Sihasapa (Blackfoot)
f. Oohenonpa (Two Kettles
g. Itazipco or Sans Arcs (Those without Bows)
The general tendency of the Sioux groups was to move in a westerly direction. By the late eighteenth century the Tetons were located west of the Missouri River, the Yanktons and Yanktonais were in present-day eastern North and South Dakota and northwest Iowa, and the Santees were in what is now Minnesota and nortwest Iowa.
Source: Bruguier, "Yankton Sioux," 19-20; Powers,
Oglala Religion, 16-17; Woolworth,
Sioux Indians III, 8; DeMallie, "Sioux until 1850," 727-32.
If you have different or conflicting information than that of the scholars I have referenced, please do post it.
I appreciate your input and as I have said before, I respect your expertise and admire the work you have done in this field. But, as of late your comments seem vague without sources/references, a point or foundation and are not worthy of the researcher and genealogist I know you to be.
Take care my sister,
Lavanah