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.