The
Miniconjou (
Lakota:
Mnikȟówožu,
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.