The Sioux before 1500
The ancestors of the Sioux people lived on the west
side of the Great Lakes (modern Minnesota), as early as the Paleo-Indian
period, about 10,000 BC. They did not
call themselves the Sioux (that's a French-Canadian insult for them meaning
"snakes"), but Lakota or Dakota.
Sioux people were hunters and gatherers. The Sioux (pronounced SOO) ate mainly
wild rice, like their neighbors the Cree. They also hunted deer and
small animals like rabbits, and they gathered berries and bird eggs and wild plants, in addition
to gathering wild rice.
By the Woodland period, about 1000 BC, Sioux
people built burial mounds near their villages, like the Hopewell
people to their east.
The Sioux after 1500 AD
The Cree
The Blackfoot
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