Miniconjou

thumb|Touch the Clouds, by James H. Hamilton, taken at the Spotted Tail Agency, Nebraska, in the fall of 1877, Miniconjou chief The Miniconjou (Lakota: Mnikowoju, Hokwoju – ‘Plants by the Water’) are a Native American people constituting a subdivision of the Lakota people, who formerly inhabited an area in western present-day South Dakota from the Black Hills in to the Platte River. The contemporary population lives mostly in west-central South Dakota. Perhaps the most famous Miniconjou chief was Touch the Clouds.

== Historic Miniconjou thiyóšpaye or bands == Together with the Sans Arc (Itázipčho, Itazipcola, Hazipco – ‘Those who hunt without bows’) and Two Kettles (Oóhe Núŋpa, Oóhenuŋpa, Oohenonpa – ‘Two Boiling’ or ‘Two Kettles’) they were often referred to as Central Lakota and divided into several bands or thiyóšpaye: Unkche yuta (‘Dung Eaters’) Glaglaheca (‘Untidy’, ‘Slovenly’, ‘Shiftless’) Shunka Yute Shni (‘Eat No Dogs’, split off from the Wanhin Wega) Nige Tanka (‘Big Belly’) Wakpokinyan (‘Flies Along the River’) Inyan ha oin (‘Musselshell Earring’) Siksicela or Shikshichela (‘Bad Ones’, ‘Bad ones of different kinds’) Wagleza-oin (‘Gartersnake Earring’) Wanhin Wega (‘Broken Arrow’, the Shunka Yute Shni and Oóhenuŋpa split off about 1840) Tall Bear