The Lakota, also known as the Teton Sioux, are a tribe of Native Americans that are part of the seven-tribe Sioux confederation. The Lakota include the Miniconjou, Sans Arc, Brule, Oglala, Hunkpapa, Blackfoot Sioux, and Two Kettles, the seven tribes of the Lakota. In the 1990s, 55,000 lived on reservations and 103,255 identified as Lakota on the census, with most living in North Dakota and South Dakota; historical records state that they originated in Minnesota. The Lakota were forced into The Dakotas by the firearm-wielding Ojibwe, but by 1750 their population reached 30,000 as they reached prosperity by hunting buffalo. They sided with Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War and War of 1812, but in 1815 they signed a friendship treaty with the United States and were granted a tract of land from Wisconsin to Wyoming in 1825 before selling the eastern part of it. Eventually, settler invasion and Lakota reprisals led to conflict with the US Army starting in the 1850s, and the Lakota were eventually in a constant state of war with the USA after the mid-1860s. In 1877, the end of the Great Sioux War led to the Lakota defeat and their forced departure for reservations, where around half of them live today.
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