Well, I probably should not get into the aspect of how to spell
the particular division of the Sioux Nation. I'm doing an oil
painting of one of the three divisions of the Sioux Nation, to
be called the "Legacy of the Lakota" . . . .
And I did some research. I was surprised to learn that the Sioux
moved northward from Florida, and there is a river named
after that part of the Sioux in Florida to this day.
They migrated into what is now the state of Minnesota and
both Dakotas region of the Northern Great Plains.
However, one division of the Sioux moved
eastward and were called by that nation, the Nakota. The
division who stayed in the Northern Plains were called the
Dakota. . . Now realize that this is the term that the Sioux
Nation used for all three of the divisions of their Nation.
And so the other division move more into the western plains,
and were known as the Lakota. And it was that division of
the Sioux that Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse came from .
So you had the Nakota in the East, the Dakota in the
northern central part of what is now the USA, and the
Lakota who went into the western plains of what is now
the USA. I hope this helps with the corn fusion . . .
The Miami Jayhawk.