The+Dakotas+today

=The Dakotas today=

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====Despite the wars and the “slaughters” of the Dakotas, they have managed to stay alive. In 1990, they counted 103 255 members of the big tribe Sioux (Dakota, Lakota, Yankton and Yanktonai). The most of them live in reserves in North- and South-Dakota, Montana, Nebraska and Minnesota. Some of them live of handicrafts and small industries, and at some reserves it has been opened casinos and bingo halls. The politic activity shows that the will for freedom still is alive.==== ====The Wounded Knee raising in 1973 is a good example of that. That was the final battle between the Lakota & Dakotas and the US army. The Native Americans had no weapons, but the army used guns which shot 50 shots per minute. The army had 500 men to fight while the Native Americans had 120 men and 230 women and children. At the end, about 150 Native Americans lied dead in the snow.====

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