{"slug": "sioux", "label": "Sioux", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sioux", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107434", "qid": "Q107434", "description": "Native American and First Nations ethnic group", "entries": 15, "years": 10, "span": [1743, 1881], "span_label": ["1743 CE", "1881 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "american-indian-wars", "label": "American Indian Wars", "shared": 8}, {"slug": "cheyenne", "label": "Cheyenne", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "montana", "label": "Montana", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "minnesota", "label": "Minnesota", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "europe", "label": "Europe", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "washington-d-c", "label": "Washington, D.C.", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nebraska", "label": "Nebraska", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1743, "year_label": "1743 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 9", "text": "April 9 – The Verendrye brothers make the first contact since 1722 between Europeans and the Sioux Indians, whom they refer to as Les Gens de la Fleche Collee (\"the people of the sheathed arrow\").", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360887949#April–June", "title": "1743", "revid": 1360887949, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1823, "year_label": "1823 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "November 15", "text": "November 15 – Lone Horn succeeds (probably) his father, and becomes chief of the Minneconjou Sioux; he will be chief until his death on October 16, 1875.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372343455#Events", "title": "1823 in the United States", "revid": 1372343455, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1832, "year_label": "1832 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "George Catlin starts to live among the Sioux in the Dakota Territory.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370617764#Date_unknown", "title": "1832", "revid": 1370617764, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1862, "year_label": "1862 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 5", "text": "November 5 – American Indian Wars: In Minnesota, more than 300 Santee Sioux are found guilty of rape and murder of white settlers, and are sentenced to hang.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358615004#November", "title": "1862", "revid": 1358615004, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1862, "year_label": "1862 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 5", "text": "November 5 – Dakota War: In Minnesota, more than 300 Santee Sioux are found guilty of rape and murder of white settlers and are sentenced to hang.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370943359#November", "title": "1862 in the United States", "revid": 1370943359, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1867, "year_label": "1867 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 29", "text": "June 29 – Kidder massacre: A Sioux and Cheyenne war party kills U.S. Second Lieutenant Lyman Kidder, along with an Indian scout and ten enlisted men in Kansas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369622855#April–June", "title": "1867 in the United States", "revid": 1369622855, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1873, "year_label": "1873 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 4", "text": "August 4 – American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the Seventh Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashes for the first time with the Sioux, near the Tongue River (only 1 man on each side is killed).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370305657#August", "title": "1873", "revid": 1370305657, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1875, "year_label": "1875 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 9", "text": "November 9 – American Indian Wars: In Washington, D.C., Indian Inspector E.C. Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States (the Battle of the Little Bighorn is fought in Montana the next year).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371928758#November", "title": "1875", "revid": 1371928758, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1875, "year_label": "1875 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 9", "text": "November 9 – Indian Wars: In Washington, D.C., Indian Inspector E. C. Watkins issues a report stating that hundreds of Sioux and Cheyenne associated with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are hostile to the United States (the Battle of the Little Bighorn is fought in Montana the next year).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353220564#Events", "title": "1875 in the United States", "revid": 1353220564, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1876, "year_label": "1876 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Vast numbers of Indians move north to an encampment of the Sioux chief Sitting Bull in the region of the Little Bighorn River, creating the last great gathering of native peoples on the Great Plains.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363110094#Undated", "title": "1876 in the United States", "revid": 1363110094, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1876, "year_label": "1876 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March", "text": "Thousands of Plains Indians in the United States travel to an encampment of the Sioux chief Sitting Bull in the region of the Little Bighorn River, creating the last great gathering of native peoples on the Great Plains.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363589433#March", "title": "1876", "revid": 1363589433, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1876, "year_label": "1876 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 17", "text": "June 17 – American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne, led by Crazy Horse, beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363589433#June", "title": "1876", "revid": 1363589433, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1876, "year_label": "1876 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 17", "text": "June 17 – Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud – 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363110094#April–June", "title": "1876 in the United States", "revid": 1363110094, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1877, "year_label": "1877 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 5", "text": "September 5 – American Indian Wars: Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse is bayoneted by a United States soldier, after resisting confinement in a guardhouse at Fort Robinson in Nebraska.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370239819#September", "title": "1877", "revid": 1370239819, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1881, "year_label": "1881 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 20", "text": "July 20 – American Indian Wars: Sioux chief Sitting Bull leads the last of his people in surrender to United States troops at Fort Buford in Montana.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369747876#July", "title": "1881", "revid": 1369747876, "section": "Events › July"}}]}