Yankton Sioux Tribe

Yankton Sioux Tribe
of the South Dakota
Faith Spotted Eagle, Yankton tribal member, counselor, and activist
Total population
11,594 enrolled members
Regions with significant populations
 United States ( South Dakota)
Languages
Dakota, English[1]
Religion
traditional tribal religion, Sun Dance,[2]
Native American Church, Christianity[3]
Related ethnic groups
other Eastern Dakota, Western Dakota people
Nicollet's 1843 Map of the upper Mississippi basin was used to draft the Treaty Traverse des Sioux as it identified tribal lands. Drafters of the treaty assumed the Big Sioux River was a geographical boundary for the Yankton when they could walk across it to their quarry at Pipestone.
German settlers recorded Yankton land extended east into Minnesota to the Jeffers Petroglyphs
Yankton Sioux chief Struck by the Ree insisted on making the Pipestone quarry a treaty issue with the United States in 1858. The Yankton refer to the Arikara as the "Ree"
1872 Plat of Yankton Sioux Pipestone Reservation held by the National Park Serrvice
Inlaid Pipe Bowl collected at Fort Snelling 1833–1836, made from stone from the Yankton quarry.[4]

The Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota is a federally recognized tribe of Yankton Western Dakota people, located in South Dakota. Their Dakota name is Ihaƞktoƞwaƞ Dakota Oyate, meaning "People of the End Village" which comes from the period when the tribe lived at the end of Spirit Lake just north of Mille Lacs Lake.[5][6][7]

Historically, the tribe is known for being the protectors of the sacred Pipestone Quarry for the Oceti Sakowin (Dakota).

The tribe maintains a free-ranging bison herd.[6]

  1. ^ Pritzker 329
  2. ^ Pritzker 331
  3. ^ Pritzker 335
  4. ^ The Jarvis Collection of Native American Plains Art Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn New York
  5. ^ Yankton, Place Names Connected to the Chicago North Western Railway (Chicago, 1908), p. 172
  6. ^ a b "Yankton Sioux Tribe." South Dakota Department of Tourism. 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  7. ^ "Rev. secr. Trib. perm. revis". Rev. Secr. Trib. Perm. Revis. doi:10.16890/rstpr.