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Standing Rock Agency (see also Grand River Agency) The Grand River Agency was created in 1869, although correspondence relating to it was filed with the records of the Upper Platte Agency until 1871. In 1873 the Agency was moved 50 miles upstream on the Missouri River near present day Fort Yates, North Dakota. The name of the agency was changed to Standing Rock in 1874. Standing Rock served bands of both Upper and Lower Yanktonai, Cutheads, Hunkpapa, and Blackfeet. Influential headmen for these groups included: Yanktonai--Two Bears and Black Eyes; Cut Heads--All Over Black; Blackfeet--The Grass; Hunkpapa--Sitting Bull, Four Horn, Iron Dog, Slave, Little Knife, Gall, Rain-in-the-Face, and Red Horn. Today the Standing Rock Reservation is located in both North and South Dakota. Its 562,366-acre land base is mainly found in Corson County in South Dakota. A monument to Sitting Bull is located at his grave in the southeast corner of the reservation. Contemporary scholars Patricia Locke (educator) and Beatrice Medicine (anthropologist) are from the Standing Rock Reservation. Collections ACCESSION NO.
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H75-313 Bullhead District Indian Census, 1906-1908. Handwritten list of Indians living in Bullhead District from 1906-1908. Includes name, age, gender, and other numbers, some of which may be allotment numbers. Survey taken by Carl Gunderson of Vermillion and Mitchell.
Box 3549A
2002-030 Standing Rock Agency Correspondence, 1883, 1890 One file containing photocopies of correspondence from Standing Rock Agency regarding a buffalo hunt in 1883, and the arrest of Sitting Bull in 1890.
Box 7600D
Special Census of Indians, 1880 (M1791). Section 8 of the census act of March 3, 1879 (20 Stat. 475) authorized the Superintendent of the Census to “employ special agents or other means to make an enumeration of all Indians not taxed, within the jurisdiction of the United States, with such information as to their condition as may be obtainable.” A special enumeration therefore was taken of Indians living near military reservations. The enumerators were instructed to include all persons “who were living on the 1st day of October, 1880.” This microfilm publication contains the results of that census. The roll listed
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below was purchased by the State Archives for its relevance to South Dakota tribes. The complete publication (5 rolls) is available from the National Archives. CONTENTS NARA ROLL # MF
LOCATION Standing Rock Agency, Standing Rock Reservation - Miniconjou, Oglala, and Hunkpapa Tribes (interfiled)
4 4730
Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1939 (M595). Because Indians on reservations were not citizens until 1974, nineteenth and early twentieth century census takers did not count Indians for congressional representation. Instead, the U.S. government took special censuses in connection with Indian treaties, the last of which was in 1871. The result of many treaties was to extinguish Indian ties to land. Typically, the Indians agreed to reduce their landholdings or to move to an area less desired for white settlement. Some treaties provided for the dissolution of the tribes and the allotment of land to individual Indians. The censuses determined who was eligible for the allotments. These census rolls were usually submitted each year by agents or superintendents in charge of Indian reservations, as required by an act of July 4, 1884. The data on the rolls vary to some extent, but usually given are the English and/or Indian name of the person, roll number, age or date of birth, sex, and relationship to head of family. Beginning in 1930, the rolls also show the degree of Indian blood, marital status, ward status, place of residence, and sometimes other information. For certain years – including 1935, 1936, 1938, and 1939 – only supplemental rolls of additions and deletions were compiled. Most of the 1940 rolls have been retained by the Bureau of Indian affairs and are not included in this publication. CONTENTS NARA ROLL # MF
LOCATION Standing Rock (Sioux Indians), 1885-1899 547-549 9685 Standing Rock (Sioux Indians), 1900-1911 550-552 9686 Standing Rock (Sioux Indians), 1912-1913, 1915-1924 553-555 9687 Standing Rock (Sioux Indians), 1925-1931, 1932 (with birth and death rolls, 1924-1932)
556-558 9688
Standing Rock (Sioux Indians), 1933-1936 559-561 9689 Standing Rock (Sioux Indians), 1937-1939 562-563 9690
General Land Office, Timber Allocations, 1915-1918. CONTENTS MF LOCATION Timber Allocations, Standing Rock Reservation, 1915-1918, Vol. 1 and 2
515
Timber Allocations, Standing Rock Reservation, 1915-1918, Vol. 3 and 4
516
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Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1875-1880 (M234). The records in this microfilm publication consist of communications received by the Office of Indian Affairs from the Standing Rock Agency concerning the general situation of the Indians, their population, education, health, and medical care, and their agriculture and subsistence. The letters cover such matters of administrative concern as emigration, land allotments, annuity payments, depredations, claims, complaints, traders, buildings, supplies, employees, and accounts. Correspondence is grouped by year and thereunder arranged alphabetically by initial letter of surname or official position of the writer. Within each alphabetical section, correspondence is arranged by file number, which was assigned to each letter as they were registered. CONTENTS NARA ROLL # MF LOCATION Standing Rock Agency, 1875-1876 (B829) 846 1484 Standing Rock Agency, 1876 (B835)-1877 (H181) 847 1485 Standing Rock Agency, 1877 (H182-W1124) 848 1485 Standing Rock Agency, 1878 (A295-W42) 849 1486 Standing Rock Agency, 1878 (W116)-1879 850 1487 Standing Rock Agency, 1880 (A81-S1874) 851 1487 Standing Rock Agency, 1880 (S1885-W2575) 852 1488
Letters Received by the Department of War, 1824-1878. Microfilm purchased by the SD State Archives from the National Archives. Contains reports and correspondence related to Fort Rice in Dakota Territory. CONTENTS NARA ROLL # MF LOCATION Military Expedition against the Arikara, 1824 Correspondence, 1872-1878
• Standing Rock, 1872-1878 • Ft. Rice, 1872-1875 • Ft. Abraham Lincoln, 1875
Ft. Rice, Post Orders, 1876-1877 (incomplete) Ft. Rice, Endorsement Book, 1878
C337 (17) 6383B
Publications TITLE LOCATION Report of the Commission appointed by direction of the President of the United States, under instructions of the honorables, the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Interior, to meet the Sioux Indian Chief, Sitting Bull, with a view to avert hostile incursions into the territory of the United States from the Dominion of Canada. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1877.
E83.866 .U58
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TITLE LOCATION Chief Martin Charger, Pretty Bear, and certain other Indians. 59th Cong. 1st sess. Senate. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1906.
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Records, 1864-1922. These records are housed at the National Archives regional records center in Kansas City, Missouri. As part of the Indian Archives Project, the South Dakota State Archives paid to have these records microfilmed to make them more accessible to tribal members in South Dakota. The Standing Rock Indian Agency records are largely unarranged. Groups of like records were selected by the State Archives for filming. Each filmed group is preceded by a target noting the records filmed and, in some cases, including a folder title list. The target and folder title lists were prepared by the staff of the Central Plains Region. This microfilm set should not be construed as being a complete reproduction of the records of the Standing Rock Indian Agency. SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA
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Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 - The following letterpress copy books were selected from a larger series of records. The letters and reports were sent by the agent to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, commercial suppliers, schools, missionary associations, other government officials, private citizens, and others having business with the Standing Rock Indian Agency. Some of the subjects discussed are general policy, education, missions, supplies, and financial matters. Volumes were filmed in chronological order, and most have indexes.
• May 8, 1890 – Dec 31, 1883
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Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 (continued) • Jan 1, 1884 – Nov 20, 1884
2 5475
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 (continued) • Nov 21, 1884 – Apr 20, 1886
3 5476
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 (continued) • Apr 20, 1886 – Mar 26, 1887
4 5477
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 (continued) • Mar 26, 1887 – Nov 26, 1887
5 5478
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Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 (continued) • Nov 28, 1887 – Dec 3, 1888
6 5479
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 (continued) • Dec 4, 1888 – Aug 6, 1889
7 5480
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 (continued) • Aug 6, 1889 – May 5, 1890
8 5481
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 (continued) • Jun 18, 1891 – Dec 31, 1891
9 5482
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 (continued) • Jan 1, 1892 – Jun 2, 1892
10 5483
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 (continued) • Jan 2, 1892 – Dec 31, 1892
11 5484
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 (continued) • Jan 1, 1893 – Aug 11, 1893
12 5485
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 (continued) • Aug 12, 1893 – Mar 20, 1894
13 5486
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 (continued) • Mar 21, 1894 – Sep 6, 1894
14 5487
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 (continued) • Sep 7, 1894 – May 21, 1895
15 5488
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 (continued) • May 21, 1895 – Apr 6, 1896
16 5489
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Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 (continued) • Apr 7, 1896 – Nov 4, 1896
17 5490
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 (continued) • Nov 5, 1896 – Aug 4, 1896
18 5491
Allotment Cards, 1910-1920 • Reports of Unallotted Indians, after 1920 (lists of unallotted
Indians on Standing Rock, arranged by allotment number) • Allotment Index (list of names and allotment numbers
assigned to each location, arranged by land location) • Allotted Lands – Burned Lands Owned by Indians, undated
(entries include the location, allotment number, name of allottee, acreage, and totals burned)
• Allotments, 1905-1906 o This folder includes the rules used for assigning
allotments, and correspondence and reports regarding J.W. Bristow killing Albert Smuttybear, the re-leasing of Lemmon pasture, the purchase of stock cattle in lieu of irregular paid labor, the pensioning of Indian policemen involved in the Sitting Bull outbreak, and the naming of the Martin Kenel Agricultural Boarding School.
• Allotment Cards o People born after March 20, 1915 who had no claim
(includes name, number, and date of birth) o Patent in Fee, A-V (includes name, number,
location, acreage, date issued, patent number, and district or address)
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Allotment Cards, 1910-1920 (continued) • Allotment Cards (continued)
o Patent in Fee, W-Z o Identity Cards, A-We (includes name, number, and
occasionally a thumbprint or the name and location of the person’s bank)
20 5493
Allotment Cards, 1910-1920 (continued) • Allotment Cards (continued)
o Identity Cards (continued), Wh-Z
21 5494
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Land – Correspondence and Related Records • Correspondence – Farming Land and Timber, 1913 • Land Letterpress Volume 1 – Applications for Land Patents
and Sales, Dec 14, 1909 – Jun 14, 1910
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Land – Correspondence and Related Records • Land Letterpress Volume 1 – Applications for Land Patents
and Sales (continued), Jun 10, 1910 – Oct 4, 1910 • Land Letterpress Volume 2 – Lease Land Free from
Control, Jan 21, 1910 (no name index) • Land Letterpress Volume 3 – Applications for Land Patents
and Sales, Oct 4, 1910 – Dec 19, 1910 • Land Letterpress Volume 4 – Commissioner’s Land
Matters, Jun 15, 1910 – Aug 31, 1910
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Land – Correspondence and Related Records • Land Letterpress Volume 4 – Commissioner’s Land Matters
(continued), Aug 30, 1910 – Dec 19, 1910 • Land Letterpress Volume 5 – Miscellaneous Land, Jun 15,
1910 – Sep 1910 (majority of volume too dark to read)
23 5496
Land – Correspondence and Related Records • Land Letterpress Volume 5 – Miscellaneous Land
(continued), Sep 28, 1910 – Nov 2, 1910 • Land Letterpress Volume 6 – Miscellaneous Land, Nov 2,
1910 – Dec 19, 1910 • Correspondence - Land Sales, 1915-1916 • Correspondence – Indian Land Sales and Other
Miscellaneous Matters, 1916 (2 folders)
24 5497
Land – Correspondence and Related Records • Correspondence – Indian Land Sales and Other
Miscellaneous Matters, 1916 (2 folders, continued) • Correspondence – General Land Office, L.C. Lippert, 1946 • “Indian Land Problems and Policies” Booklet, 1934 • Patents in Fee Book 1, 1910-1912 • Patents in Fee Book 2, 1908-1916 • Record of Sales Book 1 – Petitions for Sale of Indian
Lands, 1909-1910 (information includes allotment number, allottee, name of petitioner, dates listed, dates bids opened, names of bidders and amount, grantor, grantee, date of sale, date of deed, legal land description, acreage, price per acre, payment amounts and dates, and date of approval)
25 5498
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• Record of Sales Book 2, 1910 • Record of Sales Book 3 – Petitions for Sale of Indian
Lands, 1914-1916 (information includes allotment number, name of allottee, legal description of land, acreage, appraised value, condition, date transmitted, date approved, and remarks)
25 5498
Land – Correspondence and Related Records • Record of Sales Book 3 – Petitions for Sale of Indian Lands
(continued), 1916 • Record of Sales Book 4, 1908-1910 • Record of Sales Book 5, 1910-1911 • Land Sales Cards (form 5-401a), 1910-1912 (unnumbered,
filmed in alphabetical order) • Land Sales Cards (form 5-401a), 1909-1910 (filmed in
numerical order by sale number), #1-192
26 5499
Land – Correspondence and Related Records • Land Sales Cards (form 5-401a), 1909-1910 (continued),
#193-346 • Land Sales Cards (form 5-401a), 1915-1940, #30-259
27 5500
Land – Correspondence and Related Records • Land Sales Cards (form 5-401a), 1915-1940 (continued),
#260-537
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Land – Correspondence and Related Records • Land Sales Cards (form 5-401a), 1915-1940 (continued),
#538-811
29 5502
Land – Correspondence and Related Records • Land Sales Cards (form 5-401a), 1915-1940 (continued),
#812-1182
30 5503
Land – Correspondence and Related Records • Land Sales Cards (form 5-401a), 1915-1940 (continued),
#1183-1313, #1018-1086 • Land Sales Cards (form 5-401a), 1924-1925 (unnumbered,
filmed in alphabetical order) • Sales to Allottees, 1911-1923 (index cards arranged
alphabetically by surname), A-K
31 5504
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Land – Correspondence and Related Records • Sales to Allottees, 1911-1923 (continued), L-Z • “Schedule of Lands in the Cheyenne River and Standing
Rock Indian Reservations to be Opeend on May 2, 1910,” 1910
• Schedules of Ranges, 1936 (lists of permitees that include the range number; name of permitee; acreage of tribal land, allotted land, school land, leased allotted land, competent Indian land, deeded land, total Indian land, and grand total area; grazing permit beginning and ending dates; and grazing carrying capacity of land)
• Statement Opening Standing Rock Lands, 1915 • Correspondence – Tribal Land Census, 1936-1937 • Tribal Land Restoration Program, undated (list of lands
included in program) • Correspondence – Tribal Land Status, 1937 • Land Utilization Meeting Transcript, 1940 • List of Vacant, Unreserved Lands as of September 1934
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Field Notes of Boundary Surveys, 1890-1894 • Sections 35 and 36 of T129N, R79W • The West Boundary of the Sioux Indian Reservation (South
Fork of the Cannon Ball River to the Cheyenne River), 1890
• 4th Standard Parallel North of the Black Hills Meridian from Range 17 through Range 29 East
• Supplemental Survey of the 4th Standard Parallel North of the Black Hills Meridian through Ranges 29 and 30 East
• 5th Standard Parallel North of the Black Hills Meridian from Range 17 East to the Right Bank of the Missouri River
• Supplemental Survey of the 5th Standard Parallel North of the Black Hills Meridian through Ranges 23, 24, and 31 East
• 5th Guide Meridian between Ranges 20 and 21 East through Townships 17, 18, 19, and 20 North of the Black Hills Meridian
• 6th Guide Meridian between Ranges 24 and 25 East through Townships 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21 North of the Black Hills Meridian
• 7th Guide Meridian between Ranges 28 and 29 East through Townships 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23 North of the Black Hills Meridian
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• Line between Ranges 25 and 26 East through Townships 17, 18, 19, and 20 North and the line between Townships 19 and 20 North through Range 25 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Line between Ranges 29 and 30 East through Townships 17, 18, 19, and 20 North; the line between Townships 18 and 19 North through Range 29 East; and the line between Townships 19 and 20 North through Ranges 29 and 30 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Line between Ranges 30 and 31 East through Township 21 North; the line between Ranges 20 and 30 East through Townships 21 and 22 North; and the line between Townships 21 and 22 North through Ranges 29 and 30 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Line between Townships 21 and 22 North through Range 24 East; and the line between Ranges 23 and 24 East through Township 27 North of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision and Meander Lines in Township 21 North, Range 24 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 20 North, Range 25 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 25 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 29 East of the Black Hills Meridian
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Field Notes of Boundary Surveys, 1899-1902 • 12th Guide Meridian West of the 5th Principal Meridian,
from the South Boundary of North Dakota to the South Fork of the Cannon Ball River within the Standing Rock Indian Reservation
• West and North Boundaries of Townships 18 and 19 North of Ranges 27 and 28 East; and the West Boundaries of Township 20 North of Ranges 27 and 28 East, and Township 18 North of Range 31 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 37 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 27 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 19 North, Range 28 East of the Black Hills Meridian
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• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 28 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 28 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 18 North, Range 29 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 19 North, Range 29 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 19 North, Range 30 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• West Boundaries of Townships 18, 19, and 20 North of Range 24 East; and the North Boundaries of Township 18 North of Ranges 24, 25, and 26, and of Township 19 North of Ranges 24 and 26 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 24 East of the Black Hills Meridian
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Field Notes of Boundary Surveys, 1899 • Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 24 East of
the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North,
Range 24 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 25 East of
the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 25 East of
the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 18 North,
Range 30 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North,
Range 26 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 19 North,
Range 26 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 18 North,
Range 26 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 27 East of
the Black Hills Meridian • North Boundaries of Townships 11 North of Range 20 East,
Townships 9, 10, and 11 North of Range 21 East, and Townships 18 and 19 North of Ranges 21, 22, and 23 East; and the East Boundaries of Townships 10, 11, and 12 North of Range 21 East, Townships 18, 19, and 20 North of Ranges 21 and 22 East of the Black Hills Meridian
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• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 23 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 23 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 23 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 22 East of the Black Hills Meridian
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Field Notes of Boundary Surveys, 1899-1902 • Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 22 East of
the Black Hills Meridian (continued) • Line between Ranges 30 and 31 East through Township 20
North; Line between Ranges 29 and 30 East through Township 23 North; Line between Townships 22 and 23 North through Ranges 29 and 30 East; and the Resurvey of the North and East Boundaries of Township 21 North of Range 30 East; and the South Boundary of Township 21 North of Range 31 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 28 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 27 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 26 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 21 North, Range 25 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• 6th Guide Meridian through Townships 22 and 23 North of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 23 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Fractional Township 23 North, Range 23 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Fractional Township 23 North, Range 24 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 24 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 30 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 31 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Meander Lines of Fractional Township 21 North of Range 31 East of the Black Hills Meridian
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• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Fractional Township 21 North, Range 30 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 29 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 22 North, Range 30 East of the Black Hills Meridian
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Field Notes of Boundary Surveys, 1899-1902 • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 22 North,
Range 30 East of the Black Hills Meridian (continued) • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 29 East of
the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 23 North,
Range 30 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Fractional Township 23
North, Range 29 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 28 East of
the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Fractional Township 23 North, Range
28 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 27 East of
the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Fractional Township 23 North, Range
27 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 26 East of
the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Fractional Township 23 North, Range
26 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 25 East of
the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 23 North, Range 25 East of
the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 22 East of
the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 21 East of
the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 21 East of
the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North,
Range 21 East of the Black Hills Meridian • 5th Guide Meridian East (between Ranges 20 and 21 East)
through Townships 21, 22, and 23 North of the Black Hills Meridian
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• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 22 East of the Black Hills Meridian
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Field Notes of Boundary Surveys, 1900 • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North,
Range 22 East of the Black Hills Meridian (continued) • North Boundaries of Townships 21 and 22 North through
Ranges 21 and 22 East; and the West Boundaries of Range 22 East through Townships 21, 22 and 23 North of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 21 North, Range 23 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 22 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 22 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 23 North, Range 22 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 23 North, Range 21 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 21 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• West Boundaries of Townships 18, 19, and 20 North of Ranges 18, 19, and 20 East; and the North Boundaries of Townships 18 and 19 North of Ranges 17, 18, 19, and 20 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 20 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 20 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 20 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 19 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 18 East of the Black Hills Meridian
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Field Notes of Boundary Surveys, 1900-1904 • Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 18 East of
the Black Hills Meridian (continued) • Subdivision Lines of Fractional Township 18 North, Range
17 East of the Black Hills Meridian
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• Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 19 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 19 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 20 North, Range 18 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 21 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• East Boundaries of Townships 21, 22, and 23 North of Ranges 17, 18 and 19 East; and the North Boundaries of Townships 21 and 22 North of Ranges 17, 18, 19, and 20 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 20 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 20 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 19 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 18 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 17 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 23 North, Range 20 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 23 North, Range 19 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 19 East of the Black Hills Meridian
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Field Notes of Boundary Surveys, 1902-1907 • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 19 East of
the Black Hills Meridian (continued) • Subdivision Lines of Township 23 North, Range 18 East of
the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 18 East of
the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 17 East of
the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 23 North, Range 17 East of
the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 18 East of
the Black Hills Meridian
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• East Boundaries of Township 19 North of Ranges 17 and 18 East, and Township 20 North of Range 17 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 17 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision Lines of Township 20 North, Range 17 East of the Black Hills Meridian
• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Townships 129 and 130 North of Ranges 84 and 85 West of the 5th Principal Meridian
• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Townships 129 and 130 North of Ranges 86 and 87 West of the 5th Principal Meridian
• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Townships 129 and 130 North of Ranges 88 and 89 West of the 5th Principal Meridian
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Field Notes of Boundary Surveys, 1907 • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Townships 129 and 130
North of Ranges 88 and 89 West of the 5th Principal Meridian (continued)
• Subdivision and Meander Lines of Townships 129 and 130 North of Ranges 90 and 91 West of the 5th Principal Meridian
Plats – Maps, Land Tract Descriptions, and Timber Allotments, 1907-1936
• Plat Maps,1913 - “Opened Portion” of Standing Rock, plats are arranged by township and range numbers and show location of allotments.
• Lists of allotments by location and date deeded, 1923-1936 • Timber Allotment Plats
o Agency District, undated o Cannon Ball District, undated o Kenel District, 1936 o Little Eagle District, undated o Wakpala District, 1936
Pony Payment Rolls, 1892-1896 – lists of Indians who received payment as compensation for ponies lost; information includes the individual’s name, age, sex, amount paid, names of witnesses, and date of payment. Survey of Individuals, 1922-1923 – includes individual’s name, age, degree, legal status, allottee number, date surveyed, location of home, description of family, stock and crops owned, and other remarks by the surveyor; listed in alphabetical order by last name. (A – Eagle)
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Survey of Individuals, 1922-1923 – (Eagle – Zahn)
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Marriages, Registers and Licenses, 1890-1922 • Record of Marriages of Indians by the Indian Agent at
Standing Rock Agency, N.D., 1890-1901 • Marriage Register, 1896-1902 • Marriage Licenses, 1901-1905
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Marriages, Registers and Licenses, 1890-1922 (continued) • Marriage Licenses, 1905-1916
44 5517
Marriages, Registers and Licenses, 1890-1922 (continued) • Marriage Licenses, 1916-1922
Heirship, 1909-1927 • Cards, Inherited Interest in Estates, 1909-1917 (lists name
of deceased, date of death, year born, names of heirs, dates of hearings and/or probate, and value of estate), arranged by allotment number, #1-1085, #3309-3578, #1098-1282
45 5518
Heirship, 1909-1927 (continued) • Cards, Inherited Interest in Estates, 1909-1917, #1438-3247
46 5519
Heirship, 1909-1927 (continued) • Cards, Inherited Interest in Estates, 1909-1917, #3249-
3300, #3581-4760 • Cards, Inherited Interest in Estates, arranged alphabetically
by surname, A-Bad Moccasin
47 5520
Heirship, 1909-1927 (continued) • Cards, Inherited Interest in Estates, arranged alphabetically
by surname, Bad Woman-Chasing Hawk
48 5521
Heirship, 1909-1927 (continued) • Cards, Inherited Interest in Estates, arranged alphabetically
by surname, Chasing Hawk-Higheagle
49 5522
Heirship, 1909-1927 (continued) • Cards, Inherited Interest in Estates, arranged alphabetically
by surname, High Eagle-Shoots the Enemy
50 5523
Heirship, 1909-1927 (continued) • Cards, Inherited Interest in Estates, arranged alphabetically
by surname, Shoots the Enemy-Z
51 5524
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA ROLL #
MF LOCATION
• Coffin Sales, 1921-1923 • Copy of Decisions in Heirship Cases, 1911-1927
51 5524
Heirship, 1909-1927 (continued) • Departmental Findings Determining the Heirs of Deceased
Indians, 1911-1916 • Inherited or Non-Competent Indian Lands, 1908-1912 –
Sales Materials Relating to Sitting Bull – contains information about Sitting Bull, a memorial to Sitting Bull, Indian War pensions, and related materials selected from Annual Reports and the Decimal Correspondence Files.
• 1883 Annual Report [Rough Draft] • Decimal Correspondence 044 – Monuments and Memorials,
1919-1934 (Sitting Bull, Custer, Armistice Day, Memorial Day)
• Decimal Correspondence 053.0 - Genealogy/Family History Inquiries (focused on Sitting Bull, Gall, Brave Bear, Iron Cedar, Frosted), 1906-1938
• Decimal Correspondence 053 – Historical Inquiries, 1919-1937
• Decimal Correspondence 600.1 - Removal of Bodies of Sitting Bull, Gall, and Rain-in-the-Face, 1908-1928
• Decimal Correspondence 600.1 - Indian Wars, 1926 • Decimal Correspondence 727.0 - Survivors of Sitting Bull
Battle, 1928
52 5525
Materials Relating to Sitting Bull (continued) • Decimal Correspondence 727.0 - Survivors of Sitting Bull
Battle (continued), 1928-1938
Historical Events, Letters and Telegrams, 1864-1898 – These files contain correspondence and telegrams received by the Standing Rock Agency. The files are mostly unarranged, although they appear to be roughly in chronological order with significant overlap between files. Correspondence documents the administration of the agency, including payment records, employee lists, school and student records, policies and procedures, and other business.
53 5526
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA ROLL #
MF LOCATION
• Administration of Grand River & Standing Rock, 1864-1898
• Correspondence Received, 1864-1873
53 5526
Historical Events, Letters and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued)
• Correspondence Received, 1873-1876
54 5527
Historical Events, Letters and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued)
• Correspondence Received, 1875-1877
55 5528
Historical Events, Letters and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued)
• Correspondence Received, 1877-1878 • Indian Office and Personal Letters, 1879-1882 • Miscellaneous Letters – Dept. of the Interior to Indian
Agents, 1880
56 5529
Historical Events, Letters and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued)
• Miscellaneous Letters – Dept. of the Interior to Indian Agents, 1880-1881, 1877-1882
• Miscellaneous Correspondence from Dept. of the Interior to Standing Rock Agency, 1879-1881
• Personal and Business Letters, U.S. Indian Agent (Standing Rock), 1878-1881
57 5530
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Personal and Business Letters, U.S. Indian Agent (Standing
Rock), 1879-1881 • Indian Agent Letters – James McLaughlin, 1880-1881 • Miscellaneous Correspondence – James McLaughlin, 1878-
1884
58 5531
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Miscellaneous Correspondence – James McLaughlin, 1880-
1882 • Indian Office and Miscellaneous Letters (James
McLaughlin) and Telegrams (J.A. Stephan), 1880-1882
59 5532
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA ROLL #
MF LOCATION
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Indian Office and Miscellaneous Letters (James
McLaughlin) and Telegrams (J.A. Stephan), 1881-1883 • Indian Office Letters – James McLaughlin, 1881-1882 • Correspondence to James McLaughlin Concerning Claim to
Child, 1883 • Indian Office and Miscellaneous Letters, 1881-1883
60 5533
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Indian Office and Miscellaneous Letters, 1883-1884
61 5534
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Indian Office and Miscellaneous Letters, 1883-1884 • Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1884
62 5535
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1884 • Indian Office and Miscellaneous Letters – James
McLaughlin, U.S. Indian Agent, 1884 • Miscellaneous Correspondence – James McLaughlin, 1885
63 5536
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Miscellaneous Correspondence – James McLaughlin, 1885
(continued) • Dept. of Interior Correspondence to Indian Agent, 1886
64 5537
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Dept. of Interior Correspondence to Standing Rock, 1886 • Correspondence Received, 1886
65 5538
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Correspondence Received, 1886 (some 1885 at end of
folder) • Personal Letters and Telegrams of Agent McLaughlin,
1886-1887
66 5539
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA ROLL #
MF LOCATION
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Personal Letters and Telegrams of Agent McLaughlin, 1887
67 5540
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Personal Letters and Telegrams of Agent McLaughlin,
1886-1887 • Personnel Letters, 1888 • Letters Received by James McLaughlin, 1888-1889
68 5541
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Letters Received by James McLaughlin, 1888 • Correspondence Received, 1888
69 5542
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Correspondence Received, 1888-1889 • Miscellaneous Correspondence – James McLaughlin, 1888-
1889
70 5543
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Miscellaneous Correspondence – James McLaughlin, Nov-
Dec 1889 • Correspondence, 1883, 1888-1890, 1892, 1895, 1908 • Correspondence, 1883, 1888-1891
71 5544
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Correspondence, 1891-1892, 1901-1902 • Letters, 1890 (school reports), 1883, 1890
72 5545
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Correspondence Received by Agent McLaughlin, 1890 • Correspondence Received by Agent McLaughlin, 1889-
1890 (teachers, employment letters, school reports)
73 5546
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Correspondence Received by Agent McLaughlin, 1890
74 5547
Standing Rock Agency - 22
SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA ROLL #
MF LOCATION
• Personal Letters – James McLaughlin, 1891 • Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1890-1891
74 5547
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1891, 1884 (school reports
and student lists, trading licenses) • Miscellaneous Correspondence, James McLaughlin – USI
Agent, 1891 • Indian Office Letters, 1891 • Commissioner’s and Private Correspondence (McLaughlin),
1890-1891 (includes 1890 Standing Rock census, and student/employee lists)
75 5548
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Commissioner’s and Private Correspondence (McLaughlin),
1891, 1895 (includes student lists) • Correspondence Received by James McLaughlin, 1892
(includes student lists) • Letters and Telegrams Received, 1892
76 5549
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Letters and Telegrams Received, 1892 • Personal and Miscellaneous Letters, 1892-1893
77 5550
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Personal and Miscellaneous Letters, 1892 • Department of the Interior Correspondence (McLaughlin),
1892 • Petitions to Participate in Columbian Exhibition of the
World’s Fair, 1892 • Department of the Interior Correspondence, 1892
78 5551
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Department of the Interior Correspondence, 1891-1892 • Miscellaneous Letters, 1892, 1894 • Correspondence – Dept. Of Interior to Standing Rock, 1893 • Business Letters to James McLaughlin, 1893
79 5552
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA ROLL #
MF LOCATION
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Business Letters to James McLaughlin, 1893 • Miscellaneous Correspondence and Telegrams to James
McLaughlin, 1893 • Personal and Business Correspondence to James
McLaughlin, 1893
80 5553
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Personal and Business Correspondence to James
McLaughlin, 1893
81 5554
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Personal and Business Correspondence to James
McLaughlin, 1893-1897, 1890-1894
82 5555
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Personal and Business Correspondence to James
McLaughlin, 1894 • Business and Personal Correspondence, 1894 • Personal and Business Letters to James McLaughlin, 1894
83 5556
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Personal and Business Letters to James McLaughlin, 1894 • Business and Personal Correspondence to Standing Rock,
1894
84 5557
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Business and Personal Correspondence to Standing Rock,
1894 • Business and Personal Correspondence, 1894-1895 • Business and Personal Correspondence, 1897 • Business Letters to James McLaughlin, 1894 (Office of
Indian Affairs)
85 5558
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA ROLL #
MF LOCATION
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Business Letters to James McLaughlin, 1894 (Office of
Indian Affairs) • Miscellaneous Papers and Correspondence from and to
Standing Rock, 1895-1896 • Miscellaneous Letters, 1895
86 5559
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 (continued) • Miscellaneous Letters, 1895-1896 • Financial Correspondence, 1895 (Commissioner) • Personal and Business Letters to Standing Rock, 1895
87 5560
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Special Case Files, 1882-1970. These files were selected from the Bureau of Indian Affair’s Special Case files for their pertinence to the Indian nations of South Dakota. They were microfilmed at the request of the SD State Archives. The originals are available in Washington, D.C. at the National Archives. The files listed here pertain to the Standing Rock Agency. For a complete list of Special Case files at the State Archives, see the “Special Topics” section of this guide. The Special Case files bring related documents together from different places in the general incoming correspondence. Subjects mostly deal with land and property matters. DESCRIPTION MF LOCATION Investigation of Standing Rock Agency, 1911-1912. 5039 Case #180 - Sale of lands in Redwood Co, Minnesota “for
the relief of the Mdewakanton band of Sioux Indians” (H.R. 10869), 1889-1906.
Case #63 – Sioux Reservation, Wagon Road Route No. 3, 1882-1884
Case #83 – Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Right of Ways, Sisseton Agency, 1880-1890
Case #88 – Standing Rock Agency, Restoration of Lands East of the Missouri River (“Executive Addition to Sioux Reserve”) to Public Domain, 1881-1882.
Case #92 – Cheyenne River Agency relative to Ponca Agreement, 1882
Case #91 – Crow Dog Case - Murder of Spotted Tail, 1881-1883
5041
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Case #191, continued – Farming and Grazing Leases, 1896-1907 (Rosebud, Lower Brule, Standing Rock)
5045
Dockets 114-119 – The Sioux Tribe vs. the United States, 1951-1982
5090
Dockets 114-119 – The Sioux Tribe vs. the United States, 1974-1976
5091
Dockets 114-119 – The Sioux Tribe vs. the United States, 1951-1976
5092
Dockets 114-119 – The Sioux Tribe vs. the United States, 1975 (Defendant’s Exhibits, index at start of roll)
5093
Docket 119 – The Sioux Tribe vs. the United States, 1975 (Defendant’s Exhibits, indexes at start and middle of roll)
5094
Standing Rock Agency: Superintendent’s Annual Narrative and Statistical Reports from Field Jurisdictions of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1911-1935 (M1011). CONTENTS NARA ROLL # MF LOCATION Springfield School, 1910-1918 Standing Rock, 1911-1931
144 4465
Standing Rock, 1932-1935 Tacoma Hospital, 1930-1938 Taholah School, 1915-1922
145 4466