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Min·i·con·jou

also Min·ne·con·jou  (mĭn′ĭ-kŏn′jo͞o)

n. pl. Miniconjou or Min·i·con·jous also Minneconjou or Min·ne·con·jous

A member of a Native American people constituting a subdivision of the Lakota, formerly inhabiting an area from the Black Hills to the Platte River, with a present-day population in west-central South Dakota.

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The Lakota are further subdivided into seven bands: Oglala, Brule, Hunkpapa, Miniconjou, Sans Arc, Two Kettle, and Blackfeet.

He studied the emergence of intertribal resistance that had led to hybrid Plains bands composed of Hunkpapa, Oglala, Sans Arc, Brule, Two Kettles, and Miniconjou, and Lakota kinships with Cheyenne warriors and families.

The nephew of Sitting Bull, he served as a band chief among his wife's Miniconjou people and settled on the Cheyenne River Reservation in Dakota Territory.

Miniconjou, Yanktonai, Hunkpapa, Blackfeet, Cathead, Two Kettle, Sans Arcs, and Santee--and Arapaho.

The religion entered our reservation during October of that year through Kicking Bear, a respected member of the Miniconjou tribe.

About 120 men and 230 women and children of Chief Big Foot's Miniconjou band were running from a growing number of U.S.

I also happen to be a blood-initiated brother of the Miniconjou Sioux, On my wife's side, my grandson is a 13th generation Native-American--with the capital letter on "American."

--Brule, Oglala, Miniconjou, Yanktonai, Hunkpapa, Blackfeet, Cuthead, Two Kettle, Sans Ares, and Santee--and Arapaho, 1868 (Treaty of Fort Laramie, 1868).

Laramie involving the Lakota (Oglala, Brule, Miniconjou), Cheyenne, Arapaho and Crow tribes.


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