South Dakota Reservations

History Snapshot

Tribal

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Cheyenne River

Reservation

Moved 4 times due to US gov. acts

Final move to Eagle Butte - Oahe Dam flooded tribal lands

Executive Officers:

• Harold C. Frazier: Tribal Chairman
• Bob Chasing Hawk: Tribal Vice-Chairman
• Ev Ann White Feather: Tribal Secretary
• Kimberly Rave: Assistant Tribal Secretary
• Benita Clark: Tribal Treasurer
• Sylvia Picotte: Assistant Tribal Treasurer
• Kenneth Little Thunder: Administrative Officer

Traditional Language:

Cheyenne River

Lakota

4 Tiospaye & meanings

Location of reservation headquarters:

1st

towns:

Current Event: 2018 launched wakpawaste to spread their messages; truth about history, treaties, pipelines, and much more

Evarts & LeBeau

Eagle Butte

Mnicoujou: Planters By The Water

Oohenumpa: Two Kettle

Itazipco:Without Bows

Siha Sapa:Black Foot

Now under Mississippi River

Executive Officials:

Crow Creek

Lester Thompson Jr. , Chairman

Patrick F. Duffy, Superintendent

Reservation

In the News:

History Snapshot:

Headquarters location:

Fort Thompson

Crow Creek

"Patrick F. Duffy, the superintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) on the Crow Creek Indian Reservation was attacked and stabbed at the BIA headquarters in Fort Thompson, South Dakota." - nativenewsonline.net

Big Bend Dam flooded lands and forced them to move to Fort Thompson

Tiospaye

Dakota War of 1862 - Little Crow leads them to take back land that was promised to them in treaties

Mdewakanton (People of Spirit Lake),

Ihanktonwan (People of the End)

Current Event:

In 2018, they went to court against Trump administration to protect the bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Traditional Language: Dakota

Flandreau Santee Reservation

Executive

Officer:

Traditional Language:

Dakota

Anthony Reider,

President

Tribal Headquarters:

Flandreau

Santee

Flandreau, SD

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In 2018, Flandreau Santee tribe won court case against South Dakota for trying to tax their Royal River Casino and Hotel.

History Snapshot:

Originally lived on land that is now called Minnesota and Wisconsin. Once Europeans came , the Flandreau Santee spent many years trying to keep their land but eventually gave up their land and went to a reservation by 1851 because the white settlers pressured them too much.

Yankton Sioux

Executive Officers:

Headquarters Location:

Reservation

Robert Flying Hawk, Chairman

Dakota

is their

traditional language

Wagner, SD

Larry Wright Jr., Chairperson

Adelita Guerue, Superintendent

Yankton

History Snapshot:

Tribal Flag

Europeans came rushing into their souteastern territory in SD in the 1850s. Struck-by-the-Ree went to Washington to work on a treaty with the US Gov. The Treaty of Washington was signed April 19, 1858.

Current Event

In 2019, they took down their flag from the State Capitol to protest the Governors. The Governor hid 2 bills she was working on that would make it illegal to protest a company in canada. She was more unified with Canadian government than Natives who live in her same state.

Reservation

Lower Brule

Lost their lands due to several treaties from 1825 to 1962

Originally lived between Rocky Mts. & Great Lakes

Traditional

Language:

Boyd Gourneau, Chairman

Executive Officials:

Lower Brule

Tribal

Headquarters:

Lower Brule, SD

James Two Bulls, Superintendent

Lakota

Current

Events:

Tiospaye

Chairman Boyd Gourneau is pushing SD lawmakers to make health coverage programs that work with tribes to tackle drug and alcohol abuse. (2018)

Sicangu: Burnt Thigh

Rosebud Sioux

Reservation

History:

Tiospaye:

Sicangu

(Burnt Thigh or Brule)

Traditional Language: Lakota

In the case, United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians, Rosebud was part of the group that sued the US gov. for taking the Black Hills. In 1980, the US Supreme Court agreed with them that the US was in the wrong back in 1877. The US gov. tried to give money as compensation but they refused. They want their land back.

Rosebud

Current Event:

Tribal Headquarters Location:

Rosebud, SD

In 2016, the Rosebud tribe sued the US gov. for closing the only emergency room on the reservation. The ER got closed down for 7 months because of very poor conditions The people who live on this reservation had nowhere to go when they had an emergency. They won the case and the ER got reopened on July 15, 2016.

Executive Officials:

Rodney Bordeaux, President

Lee Ann Beardt, Superintendent

Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate

AKA Lake Traverse Reservation

Tiospaye:

Sisseton (Fish Dwellers)

Wahpeton (Forest Dwellers)

Traditional

Language:

Dakota

Executive officers:

Donovan White -

Chairman

Russell Hawkins -

Superintendent

Headquarters Location:

Agency Village, SD

Sisseton Wahpeton

Current Event:

History Snapshot:

This reservation was established by the Lake Traverse Treaty of 1867 and that's how it got it's first name. From 1964 to 2002, they were able to switch their name to the Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe. In 2002, they got approved to change their name to Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate (people).

Ella Robertson was elected as the second woman ever to lead the tribe, (2018)

Oglala Sioux Tribe

Pine Ridge Reservation

Current Event

History

Executive Officials:

Julian Bear Runner, President

Pine Ridge

John M. Long, Acting Superintendent

After settlers started invading the Black Hills, they participated in the battle of Greasy Grass ( Little Big Horn) and killed over 250 US soldiers.

March 2019, Pine Ridge Reservation was engulfed by the flooding that happened this spring. They didn't recieve US. Gov. help until weeks later.

Tiospaye: Oglala (Scatter Their Own)

Traditional Language: Lakota

Tribal Headquarters: Pine Ridge, SD

Standing Rock Reservation

Sheila White Mountain, Superintendent

Executive Officials:

Traditional

Language:

Dakota &

Lakota

Mike Faith, Chairman

Tribal Headquarters: Fort Yates, ND

Standing Rock

Tiospaye:

Hunkpapa (Campers at the Horn)

Siha Sapa (Blackfoot)

Ihantonwanna (Little Dwellers at the End of the Village)

Ihanktonwan (Dwellers at the End of the Village)

Current Event

In Feb. of 2017,

people of

Standing Rock Tribe

protest against

Dakota Access pipeline

during the last raid

of the

Standing Rock

prayer camp

History:

The Act of 1889 (Dawes Act) had a big impact on the population of Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. This act allowed white settlers into reservations. It really broke up the land of the reservation and what the people of standing rock owned.

Resources:

• http://www.sdtribalrelations.com/tribes/StandingRock.aspx
• https://www.stjo.org/native-american-culture/oceti-sakowin-seven-council-fires/south-dakota-reservations/
• https://www.bia.gov/regional-offices/great-plains/north-dakota/standing-rock-agency

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