* For the Oglala Lakota Indians, the Snowy Owl represents the North and the north wind.

Crazy Horse and his band of Indians ( Oglala Lakota ) on their way from Camp Sheridan to surrender to General Crook at Red Cloud Agency ( near Camp Robinson, Nebraska ), May 6, 1877 / Berghavy ; from sketches by Mr. Hottes.

* Charles Trimble, member of Oglala Lakota Nation and former Executive Director of the National Congress of American Indians.

The Oglala Sioux Tribe maintains legal jurisdiction over all crimes committed on the reservation by tribal members, non-reservation Indians, and those willing to relinquish authority to the tribal courts.

According to Frederick Hoxie's Encyclopedia of North American Indians ( 1996 ), Crazy Horse was the third in his male line to bear the name of Crazy Horse, which in Oglala is Tasunke Witko.

* Song for Dead Warriors ( 1974 )-A documentary about the Wounded Knee occupation in the spring of 1973 by Oglala Sioux Indians and members of the American Indian Movement ( AIM ).

Although some reports suggested the presence of thousands of warriors in the hills preparing to attack, and most of the expedition thought that a fight would occur soon, Bloody Knife discovered a group of only twenty-seven Oglala Sioux, who had been cutting lodgepoles and hunting in the Black Hills and intended return to the Red Cloud Agency, one hundred miles south of their location.

January 17, 1891: Young Man Afraid of his Horses at Camp of Oglala tribe of Lakota at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, 3 weeks after Wounded Knee Massacre, when 150 scattered as 153 Lakota Sioux and 25 U. S. soldiers died.

Today, the Lakota are found mostly in the five reservations of western South Dakota: Rosebud Indian Reservation ( home of the Upper Sičangu or Brulé ), Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ( home of the Oglala ), Lower Brule Indian Reservation ( home of the Lower Sicangu ), Cheyenne River Indian Reservation ( home of several other of the seven Lakota bands, including the Mnikoju, Itazipco, Sihasapa and Oohenumpa ), and Standing Rock Indian Reservation ( home of the Hunkpapa ), also home to people from many bands.

* Oglala ( Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota and Nebraska )

* J. R. Walker. The Sun Dance and Other Ceremonies of the Oglala Division of The Teton Dakota.

Young Oglala Lakota girl in front of tipi with puppy beside her, probably on or near Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota.

Raymond Yellow Thunder ( 1921 – 1972 ) was an Oglala Sioux, born in Kyle, South Dakota.

Oglala is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Shannon County, South Dakota, United States.

es: Oglala ( Dakota del Sur )

* Native American Natural Foods, an Oglala Lakota business in Kyle, South Dakota manufactures and distributes the Tanka Bar – based upon traditional wasna ( pemmican ).

Paha Ska, of Keystone, South Dakota | Keystone, SD, an Elder of the Oglala Sioux tribe holds an authentic Presidential Peace & Friendship Medallion from President Thomas Jefferson, 2001

In February 1973, AIM leaders Russell Means and Dennis Banks worked with Oglala Lakota people and AIM activists to occupy the small Indian community of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

Since 2002, News From Indian Country has broken stories related to the investigation of murders during the 1970s at the Oglala Sioux Tribe Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ( Wazí Aháŋhaŋ Oyáŋke in Lakota, also called Pine Ridge Agency ) is an Oglala Sioux Native American reservation located in the U. S. state of South Dakota.

* Theresa Two Bulls, first American Indian woman elected to the South Dakota legislature ; state senator ( 2004 – 2008 ) and president of Oglala Sioux Tribe ( 2008 – 2010 )

Among its courses has been " Aboriginal Restorative Justice ", taught by Harley and Sue Eagle ( Saulteaux and Dakota ), program coordinators of the Oglala Lakota Nation Mennonite Central Committee Voluntary Service Unit.

The Treaty of Fort Laramie ( also called the Sioux Treaty of 1868 ) was an agreement between the United States and the Oglala, Miniconjou, and Brulé bands of Lakota people, Yanktonai Dakota, and Arapaho Nation signed in 1868 at Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory, guaranteeing to the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills, and further land and hunting rights in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana.

In 1997, Chief Long Wolf was finally moved to a new plot in the Wolf Creek Community Cemetery ( ancestral burial ground of the Oglala Sioux tribe ) at Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

William Mervin Mills was born in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, and was raised on the impoverished Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for Oglala Sioux people.

Later, he traveled to South Dakota where, at the base of Mount Rushmore, he publicly presented an Oglala Lakota leader with bales of hemp after the tribe's crop was confiscated by officers from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration.

* Oglala, South Dakota, a town

Ola Mildred Rexroat, an Oglala Sioux woman from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, was the only Native American woman in the WASP.

* Ola Mildred Rexroat, An Oglala Sioux from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota, was the only Native American woman in the WASP.

Vine, Jr. was born in Martin, South Dakota, near the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Located within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of the Oglala Lakota, it is one of two settlements which are closest to the North American continental pole of inaccessibility.

Changes accumulated in the last quarter of the 20th century ; in 1971 the Oglala Sioux Tribe ( OST ) started Oglala Lakota College, a tribal college, which offers 4-year degrees.

He was criticized for favoring family and friends with jobs and benefits, not consulting with the tribal council, and creating a private militia, Guardians of the Oglala Nation ( GOONs ), to suppress political opponents, which he paid from tribal funds.

The suit, Oglala Sioux Tribe v. Jason Schwarting, Licensee of Arrowhead Inn, Inc. et al, is seeking $ 500 million in damages for the " cost of health care, social services and child rehabilitation caused by chronic alcoholism on the reservation, which encompasses some of the nation's most impoverished counties.

* Pat Cuny ; an Oglala soldier in the 83rd Infantry Division, which fought in the Battle of the Bulge and liberated Langenstein concentration camp ;

The town of Whiteclay, Nebraska ( just over the South Dakota-Nebraska border ) has approximately 12 residents and four liquor stores, which sold over 4. 9 million 12-ounce cans of beer in 2010 ( 13, 000 cans per day ), almost exclusively to Oglala Lakota from the reservation.

The BIA was implicated in supporting controversial tribal presidents, notably Dick Wilson, who was charged with being authoritarian ; using tribal funds for a private paramilitary force, the Guardians of the Oglala Nation ( or " GOON squad "), which he employed against opponents ; intimidation of voters in the 1974 election ; misappropriation of funds, and other misdeeds.

Encouraging Bear, an Oglala medicine man and spiritual adviser to the Oglala war leader, reported that Crazy Horse was born " in the year in which the band to which he belonged, the Oglala, stole One Hundred Horses, and in the fall of the year ", a reference to the annual Lakota calendar or winter count.

Black Elk also shared some of the Oglala rituals which he had performed as a healer.

By the 1860s, He Dog and his brothers had formed a small Oglala Lakota band known as the Cankahuhan or Soreback Band which was closely associated with Red Cloud's Bad Face band of Oglala.

Notable persons include Tataŋka Iyotake ( Sitting Bull ) from the Hunkpapa band ; Touch the Clouds from the Miniconjou band ; and, Tašuŋke Witko ( Crazy Horse ), Maȟpiya Luta ( Red Cloud ), Heȟaka Sapa ( Black Elk ), Siŋte Gleška ( Spotted Tail ), and Billy Mills from the Oglala band.

A contrasting version of Custer's death is suggested by the testimony of an Oglala named Joseph White Cow Bull, according to novelist and Custer biographer Evan Connell, who relates that Joseph White Bull stated he had shot a rider at the riverside wearing a buckskin jacket and big hat when the soldiers first approached the village from the east.

The town's name comes from the Oglala Sioux tribe.

In 1972, Raymond Yellow Thunder, a 51-year-old Oglala Lakota from Pine Ridge Reservation, was murdered in Gordon, Nebraska, by two brothers, Leslie and Melvin Hare, younger white men.

The Oglala Lakota demanded a revival of treaty negotiations to begin to correct relations with the federal government, the respect of their sovereignty, and the removal of Wilson from office.

In 1991, some self-appointed leaders of the Oglala Lakota, Cheyenne and other nations declare independence from the United States.

McGillycuddy lobbied for the buffer zone to prevent white peddlers from engaging in the illegal sale of " knives, guns, and alcohol " to the Oglala Lakota inhabitants of Pine Ridge.

The town of Whiteclay in Sheridan County, Nebraska, just over the border from the reservation, was established in the former " Extension " zone and quickly started selling alcohol to the Oglala Sioux.

The Cherokee Frank Clearwater, from North Carolina, and Buddy Lamont, a local Oglala Lakota, both died from gunfire in April.

* John Yellow Bird Steele, elected president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe six times from 1992-2010.

Oglala are becoming involved in modern technologies in start-up companies, such as Lakota Solar Enterprises ( LSE ), started on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 2006 by Henry Red Cloud ( a fifth-generation descendent of Chief Red Cloud ) with help from the non-profit Trees, Water and People.

** Oglala Lakota Nation Pow Wow, an annual Pow wow featuring dancers from various parts of the U. S.

* Akim D. Reinhardt ( 2007 ), Ruling Pine Ridge: Oglala Lakota Politics from the IRA to Wounded Knee, Texas Tech University Press, ISBN 978-0-89672-601-7, awarded Great Plains Book Prize, 2008.

Some Oglala Sioux have appealed to the federal government for another executive order to withdraw the buffer from public domain.

John Yellow Bird King, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, says that tribal members bring alcohol illegally back from Whiteclay and " 90 percent of criminal cases in the court system " at the reservation are alcohol-related.