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Also Known As Nadouessioux • Dakota • Sioux

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Traditional performance
Old Indian Legends
Red Cloud and American Horse
Lakota camp
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Erik Erikson
American psychoanalyst
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull
Sioux chief
Red Cloud
Red Cloud
Oceti Sakowin chief
Spotted Tail
Spotted Tail
Sioux leader
Little Crow
Oceti Sakowin leader
Ella Cara Deloria
Sioux scholar, ethnographer, writer, and translator
John Reed Swanton
American anthropologist
Clark Wissler
Clark Wissler
American anthropologist
Wilson D. Wallis
American anthropologist
James Owen Dorsey
American ethnologist

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