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Standing Rock Sioux Reservation

Map of Standing Rock Sioux Reservation

Views: 3129 The lands of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe were reduced to a reservation by the Act of March 2, 1889. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribal members are descendants of the Teton and Yankton Bands of the Lakota/Dakota Nations. The Great Sioux Nation is also called The Lakota Nation, Tetons and the Western Sioux. The people of the Sioux Nation refer to themselves as Lakota/Dakota which means friend or allie. The United States government took the word Sioux from (Nadowesioux),…

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Quinault Indian Reservation

Map of Quinault Indian Reservation in Washington State.

Quinault Indian Reservation The Quinault Indian Reservation is located in Washington State on the southwestern corner of the Olympic Peninsula. It is home to the Quinault Indian Nation, whose people include descendants of the Quinault, Queets, Quileute, Hoh, Chehalis, Chinook, and Cowlitz peoples. The Quinault people are one of the Native peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. Their homeland is a place of forests, rivers, lakes, ocean beaches, salmon runs, cedar trees, and long memory. The reservation lies between the…

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More than 12,000 Natives in military

There are more than 12,000 American Indians, Alaska Natives and Canadian Aboriginals serving in the U.S. military, according to data published in the Wall Street Journal. Citing data from the Immigration Policy Center and Defense Department, the paper reported 12,860 members of tribal nations from U.S. and Canada, 274 Eskimos and 291 Aleuts. The overwhelming majority were American citizens.

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