Nation

Mdewakanton

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Region: Plains

In the record

The United States made 4 treaties and agreements that name Mdewakanton as a party, from Treaty of Prairie du Chien (1830), Sauk, Fox, Sioux, Omaha, Iowa, Oto, Missouri to Sioux (Mdewakanton and Wahpekuta [Wahpekute]) at Washington, DC (1858).

The atlas records 1 broken treaty promise involving Mdewakanton: Dakota 1851 treaties, 1862 war and the Act of Feb. 16, 1863.

The records group it with Dakota and Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation). Today, Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota, Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of Minnesota, Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska and Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota carry this history, as their own pages or research records say. Land has come back: Pe' Sla returned to the Oceti Sakowin.

Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.

The record over time

Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.

Names

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Self-names

BdewakantunwanDakota (Latin)

Names in treaties and records

MdewakantonwanDakota (Latin)
MdewakantunwanDakota (Latin)

Other names in English

MdewakantonEnglish/Dakota

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Working with these nations

Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Oyate) Nation government Pe' Sla (1,942 acres, Nov 30, 2012)
Owamniyomni Okhodayapi (formerly Friends of the Falls) Native-led Dakota-led restoration and return of care for sacred St. Anthony Falls (Owamniyomni) site in Minneapolis, with… Give on their site Website
Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
Lakota People's Law Project (program of Sacred Defense Fund) Native-led Legal advocacy Give on their site Website
NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
Cheyenne River Youth Project (CRYP) Native-led Youth programs Website

Native legal and land defense, nationally

Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
Honor the Earth Native-led Pipeline resistance, sovereignty, energy justice Give on their site Website
Indian Law Resource Center Native-led Legal assistance to Indigenous nations to protect lands, resources, treaty and human rights Give on their site Website

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Connections

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Present-day governments that carry this history 6

Party to 4

Part of 2

Named in 2

Sources

plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.na.107.htmlreference work
four council fires: the Mdewakantunwan, the Sisitunwan, the Wahpetunwan, and the Wahpekute
santeesiouxnation.com/unclassified
Four bands comprised the Santee division of the Sioux Nation, the Mdewakantonwan, Wahpeton, Sissetons and the Wahpekute.
prairieisland.org/who-we-are/our-historyunclassified
Our members descend from the Bdewakantunwan (Mdewakanton) Band of Eastern Dakota.

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