1. Sioux Indians
The Lakota also known as Teton, Tetonwan ("dwellers of the prairie"), Teton Sioux) are a Native American tribe.

2. Basic Information on the Sioux Indians
Languages: Lakota, English, Dakota
Religion traditional tribal religion, Sun Dance, Native American Church, Christianity
Related ethnic groups: other members of Oceti Sakohowin (Santee, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, Yankton, Yanktonai
Primary location: The Lakota are the western-most of the three Sioux-language groups, occupying lands in both North and South Dakota

3. Where do the Sioux people live?
Lakota/Dakota homelands were in what are now Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North and South Dakota. Travel freely, Sioux presence in the modern states of Iowa, Nebraska, Montana, and northern Illinois, and in south-central Canada. Today, most Sioux people live in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Saskatchewan

4. What is the difference between the Lakota and Dakota Sioux
What is the difference between the Lakota and Dakota Sioux? What do these words mean?
No Difference between Lakota and Dakota, difference tribal names meaning “the Allies”. One language uses L other does not.

5. Sioux and how they are related to the book Montana 1948
The location the book is set in is within the Sioux Indian lands at the time. The States of Montana, North and South Dakota.
Its boundaries would be surrounded by the borders of the United States, covering thousands of square miles in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana. The proposed borders are those of the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie between the United States government and the Lakota.

6. The Problem between the Sioux Indians and the American government
After the U.S army build Fort Larmine without permission on Sioux land, The F.L treadty of 1851 was to protect traverlers. The Sioux had attacks on emigrants for resources and people who have settled on their land.
Unfortunately, the United States government did not enforce the treaty restriction against unauthorized settlement. Lakota and other bands attacked settlers and even emigrant trains, causing public pressure on the US Army to punish the hostiles. Later, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenged the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village in Nebraska, killing about 100 men, women, and children. A series of short "wars" followed, and in 1862–1864, as refugees from the "Dakota War of 1862" in Minnesota fled west to their allies in Montana and Dakota Territory.
The Black Hills are considered sacred by the Lakota, and they objected to mining. In 1868, the United States signed the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, exempting the Black Hills from all white settlement forever. Four years later gold was discovered there, and prospectors descended on the area.

7. Until they finally lost..
After a series of fights with the American army and government between , when the great Sioux war came to an end. Thus, as a result to losing to the American government they were forced to be confined onto reservations, prevented from hunting buffalo and forced to accept government food distribution.
Effects it may have on the characters in the book: Which, in turn because they lost to the American government in the past the Sioux Indians in the book of Montana 1948 may’ve been portrayed as people who are obedient and more likely scared of what the American government could do to them if they misbehave.

8. Famous chiefs and figures of the Sioux
Crazy Horse - Native American war leader of the Oglala Lakota.
Lame Deer - was a Lakota holy man, member of the Heyoka society
Billy Mills - Olympic Gold Medalist
Rain-in-the-Face - Hunkpapa war chief who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn
Red Cloud was a war leader and a chief of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux)
Sitting Bull - Hunkapapa Chief

9. By: Josh Ranudo, Vincent Liu Migel, and Jayraj