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
Corresponence and Census

Treaties


 * 1805 September 23, unratified
 * 1815 June 19, with the Sioux of The Lakes
 * 1815 July 19, with the Sioux of St. Peter's River
 * 1815 July 19, with the Yakton Sioux
 * 1816 June 1, at St. Louis
 * 1825, with the Huknpapa Band of Sioux
 * 1825 June 22, at Fort Look out, with the Teton, Yancton, and Yanctonies bands of Sioux.
 * 1830 July 15, at Prairie du Chien
 * 1836 September 10, land ceded to the United States
 * 1836 October 15, at Bellevue
 * 1836 November 30, at St. Peters, with Wahpaakootah, Susseton, and Upper Medawakanton tribes of Sioux
 * 1837 September 29, at Washington,
 * 1837 October 21, at Washington
 * 1851 July 23,
 * 1851 August 5, at Mendota
 * 1851 September 17, at Fort Laramie
 * 1858 June 19, with Mendawakanton and Wahpahoota bands of Sioux
 * 1858 June 19, Sisseeton and Wahpaton Bands of the Dakota or Sioux
 * 1858 April 19, with the Yankton Sioux
 * 1865 October 10, at Fort Sully
 * 1865 October 14, at Fort Sully
 * 1865 October 19, at Fort Sully
 * 1865 October 20, at Fort Sully
 * 1865 October 20, with the Hunkpapa Band
 * 1865 October 20, at Fort Sully
 * 1865 October 28,
 * 1865 October 28, at Fort Sully
 * 1867 February 19,
 * 1868 April 29, at Fort Lariamie
 * 1872 September 20, Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands - unratified
 * 1873 May 2, Lac Traverse Agency, Dakota Territory
 * 1882-83 October 17 1882-January 3, 1883 - unratified

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