Hunkpapa Bands at LBH?

[ephriam]

LeMoyne:

Welcome to our discussion! Your insight in to some of these topics will be most helpful.

I agree that we often do use the terms "bands" and "camps" interchangably though they have distinct meanings. James Walker, who worked among the Oglala in the late 19th century, understood that each of the bands (tiyospaye) were made up of a number of smaller camps (wicotipi). Presumably this structure was reinforced by the Lakota's annual cycle of life that at times during the year required the people to scatter and at other times, resources were sufficient to allow people to gather back together again or a task such as a buffalo hunt required a larger number of people to work together.

I am interested in your comment that there were only three or four Hunkpapa "bands". Can you explain further? A number of us would be very interested in understanding better which bands settled where at Standing Rock.

Thank you.

ephriam

[gerard]

Dear All,
Please allow me to present a question. As curator at the Museum of Ethnology in Vienna, I came across a reference in the museum’s records about a Sioux chief. His name has been registered as Opómika, with the apparent meaning of “One Hundred.” He died in 1871, in Dakota Territory, according to the same reference. The information comes from the anthropologist Walter J. Hoffmann of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, who, as a medical officer, visited the Lakota at the Grand River Agency in 1872-1873.
The transcription of his name may not be correct or up to date. A Dakota online dictionary (http://fmdb.cla.umn.edu/dakota/FMPro) presents opawiå¥e, meaning “one hundred” or literally “the turning point.”
Could somebody help us out? Has anybody heard of this chief and has additional information about his life? Any help is very, very much appreciated. Thank you in advance for your attention and assistance!
With kind regards,
Gerard