Sioux Nation

Ancestral homeland: upper Mississippi River area

Brief Timeline
1600's Jesuit explorers

1700's: Sioux were migrating westward to Missouri River and beyound.Pushed by the Chippewa and encroching settlers

1851: Treaty at Fort Laramie

1854-55: Grattan Affair

1862-64: Minnesota Uprising or Little Crow's War

1866-68: Bozeman Trail or Red Cloud's War

1876-77: War for the Black Hills or Sitting Bull's and Crazy Horse's War

1890: Wounded Knee

1850-1890: Sioux Wars

Bands and Groups of the Sioux Tribe and Their Reservations/Localities
The term or designation of Sioux Indians is a very broad categorization of several bands and/or federally recognized tribes within the group so named. For the most part, they have historically lived in the Northern Plains area, and have ranged from the Canadian border and even into Canada on the north to Oklahoma on the south, and from Wyoming and Montana on the west to the Mississippi River and beyond on the east. Some of the tribes, bands, or groups of Sioux, with their colonies or reservations,include:


 * Cheyenne River Sioux -- Cheyenne River Reservation (South Dakota)
 * Crow Creek Sioux -- Crow Creek Reservation (South Dakota)
 * Flandreau Santee Sioux -- (Montana)
 * Fort Peck Sioux -- Fort Peck Reservation (Montana)
 * Hunkpapa Sioux -- majority on the Standing Rock Reservation
 * Lower Brule Sioux -- Lower Brule Reservation (South Dakota)
 * Lower (Mdewakanton) Sioux Indian Community -- Lower Sioux Indian Community (Minnesota)
 * Miniconjou Sioux --
 * Oglala Sioux -- Pine Ridge Reservation (South Dakota)
 * Prairie Island (Mdewakanton Sioux) Indian Community -- Prairie Island Reservation (Minnesota)
 * Rosebud Sioux -- Rosebud Reservation (South Dakota)
 * Sans Arc Sioux --
 * Santee Sioux -- Santee Reservation (Nebraska)
 * Shakopee (Mdewakanton Sioux) Community -- (Minnesota)
 * Sihasapa Sioux --
 * Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux -- Lake Traverse Reservation (South Dakota)
 * Standing Rock Sioux -- Standing Rock Reservation (North and South Dakota)
 * Wahpekute Sioux --
 * Upper Sioux -- Upper Sioux Reservation (Minnesota)
 * Yankton Sioux -- Yankton Sioux Reservation (South Dakota)
 * Yanktonai Sioux --

Records
Agency Records

Corresponence and Census

Vital Records


 * Fort Totten Agency, M595, births and deaths 1935-36 and 1938 some marriages FHL Film: 576853
 * Fort Peck Agency, M595, births and deaths 1924-1932 FHL Film: 576847 and births and deaths 1935-1939 FHL Film: 576849
 * Rosebud Agency, M595, births and deaths 1924-1931 FHL Film: 581435 and births and deaths 1929-1936 FHL Film: 581439
 * Cheyenne River Agency, M595, births and deaths 1925-1932 FHL Film: 574198 and births and deaths 1933-1942 FHL Film: 574199
 * Crow Creek Agency, M595, births and deaths 1925-1932 FHL Film: 575776 and births and deaths and some marriages 1935-1936 FHL Film: 575777
 * Lower Burle Sioux Agency, M595, births and deaths 1929 FHL Film: 575782 and births and deaths 1924-1931 FHL Film: 575783 and births and deaths 1935-39, 1942 FHL FIlm: 575784
 * Standing Rock Agency, M595, births and deaths 1924-1932 FHL Film: 583017
 * Pine Ridge Agency, M595, births and deaths 1924-1932 FHL Film: 580758
 * Winnebago Agency, M595, births and deaths 1924-1931 FHL Film: 583126; births and deaths 1932-1933 FHL Film 583127 and births and deaths 1922-1938 FHL Film: 583129

Important Web Sites

 * The Constitution and By-Laws of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of Fort Thompson South Dakota
 * Constitution and By-Laws for the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe South Dakota
 * Constitution and Bylaws of the Lower Brulé Sioux Tribe
 * Constitution of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Pine Ridge, South Dakota
 * Constitution and By-laws of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe of South Dakota
 * Constitution and By-Laws of the Devils Lake Sioux Tribe North Dakota. Approved February 14, 1946.
 * Constitution of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
 * Sioux Nation Wikipedia
 * Constitution and By-laws of the Yankton Sioux Tribal Business and Claims Committee