whereas the Lakota were the plains Sioux.. There was also another tribe that lived along the rivers, called the Nakota. These three were very closely related. The Nakota separated from the Dakota after an argument, and lived then in the rockier north of Minnesota and into Manitoba. The Dakota continnually warred against the Ojibwe, till they were finally driven out of the region, and into Lakota territory (across the Minnesota and the Red Rivers). The Nakota even helped the Ojibwe in this.

The Ojibwe called the Nakota the Asiniibwaan = “stoney or rocky Sioux” (the french transliterated this to the Assiniboin). One of the words for the souix is the Bwaan. The word Souix also comes from an Ojibwe slur for them the Naadewensiw = “little snakes.” Bwaan is also a slur.

Other Siouxan tribes are the Oglala, the Hidatsa, (both are northern plains tribes) the Ho-Chunk or Winnebago as they are mor commonly known as (Wisconsin), the Kansa, Osage, Omaha, Iowa, Missouria, and Alkansea (in the central and southern plains), the Biloxi )in the Ohio Valley, all the way to Western Pennsylvania), And they were even all the way into North and south Carolina with the Catawban Sioux.

As you can see many of our place names came from them, and they were far more widespread than we usually think. Anywhere there was buffalo, the Sioux were sure to found there.