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- Member of a group of North American Plains
- Indians (also called the Dakota), now living
- on reservations in South Dakota and Nebraska,
- and among the general public. Under chiefs
- Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull they defeated
- General George Custer at Little Bighorn,
- Montana; as a result, Congress abrogated the
- Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 (which had given
- the Sioux a large area in the Black Hills of
- Dakota). Gold, uranium, coal, oil, and
- natural gas have been found there since, and
- the Sioux pressed for and were awarded $160
- million compensation 1980.
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