Almost all students were Native American, mostly Sicangu Lakota.

Rosalie Little Thunder, an elder of the Sicangu Lakota, offers a vivid description of the many species that depended upon these massive herds: "The buffalo broke up the soil so grasses would grow.

Cheryl Crazy Bull, of the Sicangu Lakota Nation and president of Northwest Indian College, says the new public role of Indian women leaders isn't purely an outgrowth of the traditional women's tribal role.

The "Sicangu Lakota Oyate" or "Burnt Thigh People" roamed and hunted the Great Plains for centuries, but since the 1880s they've resided on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in south central South Dakota, according to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Web site.

Some are white, some are black, and one is American Indian of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Sicangu Lakota.

(1) The term "homeland" which connotes a place of safety, wellbeing, and sovereignty is preferred by the Sicangu Oyate (Rosebud Sioux Tribe) over the term "reservation" to describe the land allocations established by treaty with the U.S.

In the culture and tradition of the Sicangu Lakota people of South Dakota, honor and strength are paramount.

There were a good number of jokes about the Sicangu Lakota and their Kuukuus, their hog farm, but they do not seem so relevant any more.

The Rosebud Sioux are descendants of the Sicangu ("Burned Thighs") tribe of the Titunwan ("Prairie Dweller") Lakota people.

MARY BLACK BONNET is a full-blooded member of the Sicangu Lakota tribe from the Rosebud Reservation.

The Lakota Sioux received a check of $5,000 to be directed toward the Sicangu Enterprise Center, which promotes regional economic self-sufficiency and provides credit counseling training and support to tribal members.

Meanwhile, a Native-owned Rosebud, South Dakota newspaper, The Sicangu Sun Times, reprinted a pamphlet on Oct 15 that appeared to be issued by the state's Game, Fish and Parks Department .

The Rosebud Sioux Reservation encompasses 5,300 square miles in south central South Dakota, and is home to some 13,000 members of the Sicangu Lakota.

In addition to which, in 1854 the Sicangu Lakotas under Little Thunder had experienced a massacre similar to those at Sand Creek and the Washita at Ash Hollow following the Gratlan affair at Fort Laramie.