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Oglala - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (114 words) |
 | Oglala is a town located in Shannon County, South Dakota. |
| USS Oglala is a U.S. Navy minelayer sunk in the battle of Pearl Harbor. |
| Oglala Sioux is a Sioux Nation sub-band of the Western division (the Lakota). |
| Lakota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1259 words) |
| The seven branches or "sub-tribes" of the Lakota are Brulé, Oglala, Sans Arcs, Hunkpapa, Miniconjou, Blackfoot and Two Kettles. |
| After 1720, the Lakota branch of the Seven Council Fires split into two elements, the Saone who moved to the Lake Traverse area on the South Dakota-North Dakota-Minnesota border, and the Oglala-Brulé who occupied the James River Valley. |
| The large and powerful Arikara, Mandan, and Hidatsa villages had prevented the Lakota from crossing the Missouri for an extended period, but when smallpox and other diseases nearly destroyed these tribes, the way was open for the first Lakota to cross the Missouri into the drier, short-grass prairies of the High Plains. |
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