http://www.allblackhills.com/area_info/lakota_sioux.php
Currently approximately 60,000 Native Americans call South Dakota home. There are a total of nine (9) Tribal Governments. The most prominent of the various tribes in the area are the Lakota Sioux. North and South Dakota were named after these indigenous people. continue
How did Lakota become Dakota? (real question)
Indigenous, my a*s! The Lakota were driven west by the Chippewa in the 17th and 18th century from Minnesota [the Santee Sioux stayed]. They didn’t reach the “Sacred Black Hills” ‘til around 1775 - when they promptly drove the Kiowas, who were living there, out.