The Upper Yanktonais, history Options

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The Upper Yanktonai (in their language called Ihanktonwana, which translates to “little end villages”) and
The Yanktonai from the Cut Head Band. The Cut Heads, whose name is literally translated, get their title from the fact that when they withdrew from the Sisseton, there was a row over secession and a fight. Their leader Red Thunder sustained a scalp wound and the name Cut Head was given.

The Yanktonais are called the Wiceyala or Middle Sioux. When the Middle Sioux moved onto the prairie, they had contact with the semisedentary riverine tribes such as the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara.

Eventually the Yanktonai displaced these tribes and forced them upstream. However, periodically the Yanktonai did engage in trade with these tribes and eventually some bands adopted the earth lodge, bullboats and horticultural techniques of these people, though buffalo remained their primary food sources.

The Yanktonai also maintained aspects of their former Woodland lifestyle. Today Yanktonai people of Standing Rock live primarily in communities on the North Dakota portion of the reservation.

[Guest_Swiftelk_*]

Greetings,
Do you have more Upper Yanktonai (Cuthead) history to share as I am a descendent from the Red Thunders of the Lake Traverse Reservation. Anything you provide will be greatly appreciated.

My e-mail address:
swiftelk@venturecomm.net