TheTwo Kettles orTwo Boilings are one of the seven subtribes of theLakota people who, along with theDakota, make up theOčhéthi Šakówiŋ (Seven Council Fires). They reside on theCheyenne River Indian Reservation.[1]
Together with theItazipcho (Itázipčho - 'Without Bows') andMiniconjou (Mnikȟáŋwožu orHoȟwožu - 'Plants by the Water') they are referred to asCentral Lakota[citation needed] and divided into severalbands ortiyošpaye.
TheOóhenuŋpa orTwo Kettles were first part of the Mnikȟáŋwožu thiyóšpaye calledWáŋ Nawéǧa ('Arrow broken with the feet'), split off about 1840 and became a separateoyáte ortribe.[2]
According to ethnologistJames Owen Dorsey, the Oóhenuŋpa were divided into two groups:[3]
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 theCheyenne River and theMissouri 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.
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