State
South Dakota
In the record
Royce’s schedule records 25 cessions that lie at least partly in South Dakota, from 1851 to 1894, under 7 treaties, agreements and acts. The peoples named most often are Sioux (as named in treaty records), Sisseton, Wahpeton, Yankton, Arapaho and 6 more.
The atlas records 5 broken treaty promises here, including Lake Traverse Reservation (Sisseton-Wahpeton) and DeCoteau v. District County Court (1975), Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip (1977): the 1904 Act diminishes the Rosebud Reservation and Oahe Dam and Pick-Sloan: Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, Lower Brule and Crow Creek. Land has come back here: Black Hills (He Sapa) claim and LANDBACK Mount Rushmore campaign, Pe' Sla returned to the Oceti Sakowin and Cheyenne River Youth Project buys land beside Bear Butte.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources.
Everything here is linked at state level only. The atlas does not look up addresses or parcels, and a cession touching a state does not tell you whose land a particular place is.
Who is doing the work
Land return and Native-led work nearby
- Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Oyate) Nation government Pe' Sla (1,942 acres, Nov 30, 2012)
- Cheyenne River Youth Project (CRYP) Native-led Youth programs Website
- Native Governance Center Native-led Strengthening Native nation governance and capacity to exercise sovereignty Give on their site Website
- Siċaŋġu Co (Sicangu Community Development Corporation; Wolakota Buffalo Range) Native-led Sicangu Lakota economic engine incl. Wolakota Buffalo Range, food sovereignty initiative, local foods Give on their site 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
- 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
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.
Connections
Links marked “suggested” were matched automatically by name or date and have not yet been reviewed by a person.
Contains 33
- Land of the Sioux (Sisseton, Wahpeton, Medewakanton, and Wahpekute bands) in Minnesota and South Dakota, ceded 1863 (area 440)1851
- Land of the Sioux (Wahpeton and Sisseton Bands) in Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota, ceded 1851 (area 289)1851
- Land of the Pawnee (four confederated bands) in Nebraska and South Dakota, ceded 1857 (area 408)1857
- Land of the Ponka in South Dakota, ceded 1858 (area 409)1858
- Land of the Yankton Sioux in South Dakota, ceded 1858 (area 410)1858
- Land of the Yankton Sioux in South Dakota, ceded 1894 (area 411)1858
- Land of the Winnebago in South Dakota, ceded 1865 (area 468)1863
- Reservation of the Sioux of the Mississippi in South Dakota (area 443)1863
- Land of the Santee Sioux in South Dakota, ceded 1869 (area 523)1867
- Land of the Sioux (Wahpeton and Sisseton Bands) in North Dakota and South Dakota, ceded 1891 (area 496)1867
- Land of the Sioux, Sisseton in North Dakota and South Dakota, ceded 1872 (area 538)1867
- Land of the Arapaho, Northern Cheyenne and others in several states, ceded 1876 (area 597)1868
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- Fort Laramie 1868 and the Black Hills: abrogation by the Act of Feb. 28, 18771874suggested
- Land of the Sioux in North Dakota and South Dakota, ceded 1879 (area 614)1875
- Land of the Arapaho, Northern Cheyenne and others in South Dakota, ceded 1876 (area 598)1876
- Black Hills (He Sapa) claim and LANDBACK Mount Rushmore campaign1877suggested
- Land of the Sioux (Drifting Goose's band) in South Dakota, ceded 1880 (area 613)1879
- Claims that failed: Cheyenne River (Solem v. Bartlett, 1984) and Omaha (Nebraska v. Parker, 2016) were not diminished1882suggested
- Land of the Sioux in South Dakota, recorded 1882 (area 632)1882
- Land of the Sioux in North Dakota and South Dakota, taken 1884 (area 653)1884
- Lake Traverse Reservation (Sisseton-Wahpeton) and DeCoteau v. District County Court (1975)1889suggested
- Land of the Sioux in North Dakota and South Dakota, taken 1889 (area 699)1889
- Reservation of the Sioux, Cheyenne River in South Dakota (area 703)1889
- Reservation of the Sioux, Crow Creek in South Dakota (area 705)1889
- Reservation of the Sioux, Lower Brulé in South Dakota (area 704)1889
- Reservation of the Sioux, Pine Ridge in South Dakota (area 700)1889
- Reservation of the Sioux, Rosebud in South Dakota (area 701)1889
- Reservation of the Sioux, Standing Rock in North Dakota and South Dakota (area 702)1889
- Reservation of the Cheyenne River Sioux in South Dakota (area 711)1890
- Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip (1977): the 1904 Act diminishes the Rosebud Reservation1904suggested
- Oahe Dam and Pick-Sloan: Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, Lower Brule and Crow Creek1944suggested
- Pe' Sla returned to the Oceti Sakowin2012suggested
- Cheyenne River Youth Project buys land beside Bear Butte2024suggested
Organizations working here 7
- Cheyenne River Youth Project (CRYP)suggested
- Native Governance Centersuggested
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign)suggested
- Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Sicangu Oyate)suggested
- Siċaŋġu Co (Sicangu Community Development Corporation; Wolakota Buffalo Range)suggested
- Tanka Fundsuggested
- Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation (Lakota Land Systems)suggested
Sources
No source is linked to this record yet. That is a gap we are working to close.
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