Two Kettles

The Two Kettles or Two Boilings are one of the seven subtribes of the Lakota people who, along with the Dakota, make up the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Seven Council Fires). They reside on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.^[1]

Together with the Itazipcho (Itázipčho - 'Without Bows') and Miniconjou (Mnikȟáŋwožu or Hoȟwožu - 'Plants by the Water') they are referred to as Central Lakota^{[citation needed]} and divided into several bands or tiyošpaye.

Historic Oóhenuŋpa thiyóšpaye or bands

Wanúŋwaktenula (Wah-nee-wack-ata-o-ne-lar, aka Waniwacteonila - 'Killed Accidentally')
Šúŋka Yúte šni ('Eat No Dogs')
Mnišála ('Red Water', a splinter group from the Itázipčho tiyošpaye, also called Mnišála- 'Red Water')
Oíglapta ('Take All That Is Left')

The Oóhenuŋpa or Two Kettles were first part of the Mnikȟáŋwožu thiyóšpaye called Wáŋ Nawéǧa ('Arrow broken with the feet'), split off about 1840 and became a separate oyáte or tribe.^[2]

According to ethnologist James Owen Dorsey, the Oóhenuŋpa were divided into two groups:^[3]

Oohe noⁿpa (Oóhenuŋpa proper)
Ma waqota (Há waȟóta - 'Skin streaked grayish')^[4]

History

Before 1843 explorers give no reference to this subdivision. The band appeared to number 800 people. At the usual average of seven people per lodge, that would make about 115 lodges (tepees when unoccupied), equating to 230 warriors at the norm of two per lodge. They were varyingly claimed to live among other herds of buffalo, or to live separate from other bands by the Cheyenne River and the Missouri River. They respected white traders and visitors and hunted skillfully. Early on they rarely engaged in warfare but later did so. Later still they signed a treaty agreeing not to attack others except in self-defense.

Notable Two Kettle Lakota people

Miwátani Háŋska (Tall or Long Mandan), Two Kettles chief
Waŋblí Ayútepiwiŋ (Eagle Woman) (1820–1888), Two Kettle and Hunkpapa diplomat, trader, and peace activist

References

^ Johnson, Michael (2000). The Tribes of the Sioux Nation. Osprey Publishing Oxford. ISBN 1-85532-878-X.
^ Bray, Kingsley M. (8 September 2008). "Two Kettles". American-Tribes.com. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
^ James Owen Dorsey: Siouan Sociology, Echo Lib, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4068-2595-4
^ Cf. DeMallie, Raymond J., "Sioux until 1850"; in Raymond J. DeMallie (ed.), Handbook of North American Indians: Plains (Vol. 13, Part 2, p. 718–760), William C. Sturtevant (Gen. Ed.), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 2001, p. 749, ISBN 0-16-050400-7.

External links

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Archived 2011-08-02 at the Wayback Machine

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[Sioux_nation-1] Johnson, Michael (2000). The Tribes of the Sioux Nation. Osprey Publishing Oxford. ISBN 1-85532-878-X.

[2] Bray, Kingsley M. (8 September 2008). "Two Kettles". American-Tribes.com. Retrieved 24 August 2022.

[3] James Owen Dorsey: Siouan Sociology, Echo Lib, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4068-2595-4

[4] Cf. DeMallie, Raymond J., "Sioux until 1850"; in Raymond J. DeMallie (ed.), Handbook of North American Indians: Plains (Vol. 13, Part 2, p. 718–760), William C. Sturtevant (Gen. Ed.), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 2001, p. 749, ISBN 0-16-050400-7.

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