Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Oyate)

What happened

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe's official website says the tribal government has one legislative body, the Tribal Council, with 24 elected positions: four officers and 20 council representatives for the Tribe's recognized communities. Its staff directory lists Kathleen Wooden Knife as President.

On land, the Tribe's Tribal Land & Historic Preservation page lists a Tribal Historic Preservation office that does cultural land surveys for new builds, a Tribal Land Enterprise, and a Sicangu Oyate Land Office. It says the Tribal Land Enterprise exists to remedy the increasing fractionation of ownership interests in allotted lands and to consolidate individual ownership in restricted land. Fractionation means that allotted parcels have passed to so many heirs that no one owner can use the land.

One documented purchase is Pe' Sla. The Associated Press, in an MPR News report of December 1, 2012, said a group of Native American tribes raised $9 million to buy a tract of South Dakota land they consider sacred, with the deal finalized on the Friday deadline. The report says Rosebud President Cyril Scott, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Chairman Charlie Vig and Crow Creek Chairman Brandon Sazue issued a joint statement, and that those three tribes were the only ones to contribute to the purchase. Leaders would not say how much each paid. Other figures give 1,942 acres; the AP report says nearly 2,000 acres.

Good to know. A tribal government. Pe' Sla was bought jointly by three tribes, not by Rosebud alone; sources give the size as about 1,940 to nearly 2,000 acres.

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