RECORD
Oceti Sakowin (North American people)
- URI:
- https://digital.lib.iastate.edu/isulv/items/naip030.html
- Preferred form:
- Oceti Sakowin (North American people)
- Alternative forms:
- Dakota-Lakota-Nakota Nation; Oceti Ŝakowiŋ; Oceti Sakowin Oyate; People of the Seven Council Fires; Great Sioux Nation; Siouan; Sioux Nation
- Term type:
- Authority Topic
- Vocabulary:
- North American Indigenous peoples
- Language of term:
- sio;eng
- Definition:
- Preferred topical term to describe resources about the Oceti Sakowin people of North America.
- Usage:
- Use this term to supplement or replace close matches in LCSH or other external vocabularies.
- History:
- This term is acceptable per websites maintained by associated communities. It is included in this vocabulary as the broadest term in the Oceti Sakowin (Dakota-Nakota-Lakota) hierarchy. Because the vocabulary comprises only those terms that describe peoples having ties to Iowa State University land, not all divisions of the Oceti Sakowin Oyate are represented here. (Oyate translates to "people" or "nation" in the Dakota language.)
- Associated locations:
- North America Minnesota Nebraska South Dakota Montana Saskatchewan Manitoba
- Narrower term:
- Dakota (North American people) Nakota (North American people) Lakota (North American people)
- Close match in external vocabulary:
- Siouan Indians
- Related terms in external vocabulary:
- Santee Sioux Nation Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation Crow Creek Sioux Tribe Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe Lower Sioux Indian Community Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal Community Prairie Island Indian Community Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Yankton Sioux Tribe/Ihanktonwan Nation
- Source:
- National Museum of the American Indian, "Oceti Sakowin," https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/plains-belonging-nation/oceti-sakowin; Great Lakota Dakota Nakota Nation, https://lakotadakotanakotanation.org/
- Publisher:
- Iowa State University. Library
- Rights:
- http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/