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The Great Sioux Nation is a general term sometimes applied to the Sioux. It is also sometimes applied to a hypothetical state in the western and midwestern United States, which would occupy the following recognized Indian Reservations:

Oglala (Pine Ridge Indian Reservation)
Sićangu (Rosebud Indian Reservation)
Hunkpapa (Standing Rock Indian Reservation/Cheyenne River Indian Reservation)
Minniconjou (Cheyenne River Indian Reservation)
Sans Arc (Cheyenne River Indian Reservation)
Two Kettles (Cheyenne River Indian Reservation)
Crow Creek Indian Reservation
Lower Brule Indian Reservation
Santee Indian Reservation
Yanktonai (Yankton Sioux Indian Reservation)
Flandreau Indian Reservation
Lake Traverse Indian Reservation (Sisseton-Wahpehton)
Lower Sioux
Upper Sioux
Shakopee-Mdewakanton
Prairie Island
Standing Rock Indian Reservation
Spirit Lake Tribe (Formerly Devil's Lake Reservation)

The hypothetical state would also include the defunct Great Sioux reservation and other "unceded Indian territory" in four states, as well as parts the following states:

South Dakota

Montana

Nebraska

North Dakota

Wyoming Therefore, the theoretical Great Sioux Nation occupies only parts of the United States where Sioux tribes have some legal claim with regard to treaties with the Federal government. (See, for example, Treaty of Fort Laramie and map of treaty land in External Links section, below.) It doesn't include the traditional Sioux homeland in the Carolinas. It also is heavily tilted in favor of the Lakota people. Only a fraction of land occupied by Dakota and Nakota tribes immediately before white settlement is included, while virtually all Lakota land is included.
Historically, the Great Sioux Nation and the United States have had a turbulent relationship. The last great Indian battles, the Battle of Little Bighorn and the Massacre at Wounded Knee, were fought between these two peoples.

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