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The Oglala Lakota or Oglala Sioux ("Scatters their own") live in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota bordering Nebraska and 50 miles east of Wyoming. The reservation has broadly three parts, pine covered hills and ridges, grassy plains and a desert area. All three parts are noted for natural beauty. The Oglala Sioux see themselves primarily as part of the Lakota or Sioux people.
Writing in 1875, the Indian agent at the Red Cloud Agency, Dr. John J. Saville, noted that the Oglala were divided into three main bands or tiyospaye: the Kiyuksa, the Oyuhpe and the head band or True Oglala. "Each of these bands are subdivided into smaller parties, variously named, usually designated by the name of their chief or leader."[1]
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- ^ Saville to Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Aug. 31, 1875, published in Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1875), p. 250. Dr. Saville actually listed four bands, however, one of these (the Wajaje) while closely associated with the Oglala, still considered themselves to be Brulé)
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