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The Lakota/Dakota/Nakota Nation is also known as the Great Sioux Nation. The word Sioux was adopted by the United States government from the term (Nadowesioux), which comes from a Chippewa (Ojibwa) word which means little threatened snake or enemy. This was because the Ojibwa or Chippewa learned to respect and fear the respective territories and hunting and fishing grounds set in place by the Sioux. The people of the Sioux Nation refer to …

…Lakotas. For many Native Americans including the Lakotas the past is to hauntingly familiar. From the massacre at Wounded Knee along with other atrocities that happened in the 19th century to the near repeat events that occurred in the 1970s, discrimination and an overwhelming sense to assimilate have existed from the beginning of western contact. They have faced a constant struggle for not only rights and freedoms but for there very existence as a people.