Lakota (AMPU)

Lakota is one of the Prairie States of the United States. It is bordered by Montana to the north, Yankton to the east, Pawnee to the south, and Idaho to the West.

History
Lakota peoples were first contacted by the United States in 1804 via the Lewis and Clark expedition. Fiercely independent, the US and the Lakota tribes saw several disputes and even armed skirmishes for over 40 years before a tenuous truce was concluded at the First Treaty of Fort Laramie which declared an official end to the hostilities among several tribes in the region. Chief Black Bear, one of the principal signatories of the treaty, spent the remainder of his life trying to unite the tribes of the Lakota to form a coherent government with which they could eventually use to govern themselves as a state, a feat that would be achieved by his son, Lone Horn (Hewáŋžiča) in 1868 with the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie which established the Lakota territory.