Standing Rock Indian Reservation

The Standing Rock Indian Reservation is located in Sioux County in south central North Dakota and in Corson County in north central South Dakota.


 * Established -- 29 April 1868
 * Agency (BIA) -- Standing Rock Agency
 * Principal tribes -- Hunkpapa, Lower and Upper Yanktonai Sioux, Blackfeet (Sihasapa)
 * Population -- 8250 (2000 census)

History
The Standing Rock Reservation was established by Treaty of Apr. 29, 1868 (XV, 635) and by executive orders and other agreements.

Records
Records of many of the Indians who have lived on the Standing Rock Reservation are among the records of the Standing Rock Agency records, some of which are available at the Central Plains Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in Kansas City.

Annual Indian Census Rolls were taken at this agency for 1885 thru 1939. These rolls have been microfilmed by the National Archives as part of their Microcopy Number M595, rolls 461-470. Copies of these records are also available at the National Archives, their Regional Archives, and at the Family History Library and its family history centers (their ). These census rolls are also available online at Ancestry.com's subscription web site.

Vital Records part of Indian Census Rolls above

Birth and Death records 1924-1932 FHL film 583017

The 1900 federal census included population schedules for the Standing Rock Reservation. The census includes the non-Indian employees of the Standing Rock Agency, as well as many pages of Indian Population Schedules for the native population of the Reservation. They are recorded as District 260, Standing Rock Reservation, in Morton County, North Dakota and in District 48 in South Dakota where it is listed in the Bureau of the Census records as a separate locality of the state.

Web Sites

 * Constitution of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe