This historical stone has a name closely associated with its intense color. Its name was derived from the Latin word 'lapis' meaning 'stone', and from the Arabic and Persian word 'lazaward'. 'Lazaward was the Persian name for lapis stone, as well as the name of its mining location.
History. The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation is situated in North and South Dakota. The people of Standing Rock, often called Sioux, are members of the Dakota and Lakota nations. Dakota and Lakota mean friends or allies.. The people of these nations are often called Sioux, a term that dates back to the seventeenth century when the people were living in the Great Lakes area.
The Black Hills were considered sacred by the Lakota, and they objected to mining. Between 1866 and 1868 the U. S. Army fought the Lakota and their allies along the Bozeman Trail over U. S. Forts built to protect miners traveling along the trail.Oglala Chief Red Cloud led his people to victory in Red Cloud's War.hey were agriculturalists and may have been part of the Mound Builder civilization during the 9thâ12th centuries CE. In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Dakota-Lakota-Nakota speakers lived in the upper Mississippi Region in present-day Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and the Dakotas.