Special Topics 

The information listed here consists of general information relating to a specific area not listed in the other sections of this guide or general information that relates to more than one agency or reservation listed separately in the guide. Topics are listed alphabetically.

Bismarck School: Superintendents’ Annual Narrative and Statistical Reports from Field Jurisdictions of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, (M1011).

Inclusive dates NARA roll # SD Archives roll #
1910-1935 4 4443

 Fort Shaw School: Indian Census Rolls (M595).

Inclusive dates NARA roll # SD Archives roll #
1910 161 9656

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General Tribal Information

Collections

Access # Title Location
93-80 Constitution, By Laws & Corporate Charters of American Indian Tribes, 1935-40. box 5701
85-112 Indian Arts and Crafts Board/Plan & Environment Assesment Memo for Proposed Sioux Indian Cultural Center, 1979. box 103

 Publications

Title Location
Condition of the Indian Tribes. Report of the Joint Special Committee Appointed under Joint Resolution of March 3,1865. Washington, D.C.: GPO1867. E93. U656
Testimony and statements relating to the sale of post traderships. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1876. E98.C7 U5
The Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives, Annual Reports of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1931. E51.U56
Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletins, 1887-1967. E51.U6
Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, List of Publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1921-1976. Missing Issues. E51.U6 no. 200

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Northern Cheyennes

Title Location
Report of the Senate Select Committee on the Removal of the Northern Cheyennes. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1880. E99.C53 U5
Letter from the Secretary of War to the Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs. Information in relation to the escape of the Cheyenne Indians from Fort Robinson. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1879. E83. 875 .U5 1879

Treaties and Land Claims

Collections

Access # Title Location
89-136 Indian Land Leases, 1926-34. box 3771-3772

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Miscellaneous Microfilm Collections

Secretary of the Interior: Letter in response to Senate Resolution of December 13, 1888, regarding the opening of part of the Sioux Reservation (SD State Archives #H75.717M).

Inclusive dates NARA roll # SD Archives roll #
1884-1890 1 1640

 Selected Documents relating to American, Farm, and Niobrara islands in SD.

Inclusive dates NARA roll # SD Archives roll #
1 1809

Readjudication of certain individual Sioux Indian personal property claims act of May 3, 1928

Inclusive dates NARA roll # SD Archives roll #
1928 1915

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Publications

Title Location
33d Cong. 1st sess. rep. no. 133. Terms of treaties hereafter to be made with certain tribes of Indians. April 7, 1854. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1854. E95 .U64 1854
40th Cong. 2d sess. HR ex. doc. no. 97. Report of Indian Peace Commissioners: Message from the President of the United States transmitting report of the Indian Peace Commissioners. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1868. E83.866 U56
44th Congress, 2d sess, The Black Hills Treaty of 1876, n.p., 1877. KF8228. D11876
44th Cong. 2d sess. Senate ex. doc. no. 9. Message from the President of the United States, Communicating the Report and Journal of Proceedings of the commission Appointed to Obtain Certain Concessions from the Sioux Indians. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1876. E99. D1 G6 56
48th Cong. 1st sess. HR ex. doc. no.11. Right of way to Dakota Central Railway through Sioux Reservation, Dakota. Message from the President of the united States transmitting communication from the Secretary of the Interior relative to certain agreements with the Sioux Indians and the right of way to Dakota Central Railway through Sioux Reservation. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1883. E99. D1 G6 R53
48th Cong. 1st sess. S. Report 283. Report: The Select Committee of the Senate appointed under resolution of March 2, 1883, to examine into the condition of the sioux Indians upon their reservation, the character of the same, and the feasibility and propriety of the proposed reduction of such reservation, and such other matters concerning the welfare of said Sioux Indians as they may think necessary, and also to examine in the grievances of the Indian tribes in the territory of Montana. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1884. E99. D1 G6 D26
50th Cong. 2d sess. Senate. rep. no. 2710. Chippewa allotments of land and timber contracts, 1889. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1889. E98. L3 C48
51st Cong. 1st sess. Senate ex. doc. no. 51. Message from the President of the United States transmitting reports relative to the proposed division of the great Sioux Reservation, and recommending certain legislation. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1890. KF 5660. R46
Court of Claims of the United States, The Sioux Tribe of Indians v. the United States of America, Black Hills, No. C-531-7. S.l.: s.n., 1937-41. KF8208. D1 C531
60th Congress, 1st Sess. Senate Doc. 445. A Company for breeding horses on the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana. The survey and allotment of Indian lands within the limits of the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana. Hearings on the bill S. 2087, to incorporate a company for breeding horses....and on the bill S. 2963, for the survey and allotment of Indian lands. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1908. E99.C92 U58
Letter from the Secretary of the Interior: Transmitting, in response to Senate resolution of December 13, 1888, report relative to opening a part of the Sioux Reservation. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O., 1888. E99. D1 U78 1888 and E99. D1 G6 L37
89th Congress, 1st Sess. HR rep. no. 1044, Report of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Federal Opinion on the Need for an Indian Treaty Study, 1965. Washington, D.C.: GPO: 1965. KF 8205. I53
Committee on Indian Affairs. Terms of treaties hereafter to be made with certain tribes of Indians. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1854. E95. U64
Indian Treaties. Fort Sully. 1865. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1865. KF 8228. D1 1865.
Papers Relating to talks and councils held with the Indians in Dakota and Montana territories in the years 1866-1869. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1910. E99. D1 G6P36
Treaty between the United States of America and different tribes of Sioux Indians. Concluded April 29, et. seq., 1868. Ratification advised February 16, 1869. Proclaimed February 24, 1869. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1869. KF8228. D1 1868
Treaty between the United States of America and the Sioux Nation of Indians. Concluded September 29, 1837. Ratified June 15, 1838. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1838. KF 8228. D1 1837
United States. National Archives and Records Service. List of documents concerning the negotiation of ratified Indian treaties, 1801-1869. Washington: GPO, 1949. E95. U62
61st Congress, 2nd Sess.,. HR doc. , Investigation of Indian Contracts, Hearings before the Select Committee of the House of Representatives....Investigating Indian Contracts with the Five Civilized Tribes and the Osage Indians in Oklahoma. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1911. E93. U6 .I68 1911
62d Cong. 2d sess. HR doc. no. 486. Tabular statement showing by states and reservations property valuations and incomes of Indians for the fiscal year 1911. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1912. E98. F3 U5
Correspondence relative to hostilities of the Arickaree Indians. Washington, D.C.: s.n. 1823? E99. A8 C67
Survey of conditions of the Indians in the United States. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, Seventieth congress, second session pursuant to S Res. 79, a resolution directing the committee on Indian Affairs of the United States Senate to make a general survey of the condition of the Indians of the United States. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1929-1944. E93. U677
United States. Census Bureau. Eleventh Census: 1890. Indians taxed and Indians not taxed in the United States. v. 10. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1894. Oversize E98. T24 U53 1894
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure. Federal Protection of Indian Resources. Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, first session. Washington, D.C. : GPO, 1972-1973. KF26.J833 1971a
United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs. Special Committee on Investigations. Final Report and legislative recommendations: A Report of the Special Committee on Investigations of the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1989. E93. U645 1989

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Special Case Files (National Archives records microfilmed by SDSA)

Title MF Roll # Access #
Sacs and Foxes. Half-breed Patents, 1860.

Sale of Oto and Missouria lands in Kansas and Nebraska (Santee), 1885.

Sioux Commission, 1890:

Cheyenne River, Pine Ridge, Standing Rock, Santee and Ponca.

MF#5034

99-100

Sioux Commission, 1890:

Lower Brule, Crow Creek, Rosebud, Appendix.

Disapproved Sisseton Conveyances, 1902.

MF#5035

99-100

Manuscript: Talks and Councils with Indians in Dakota and Montana (OIA-ISP #68).

Indian Peace Commission, 1868.

MF#5036

99-100

Special Series A: Box 5

Indian Allotment Applications for lands within the Great Sioux Reservation in North Dakota and South Dakota ceded to the United States by Act of March 2, 1889.

MF#5038

99-100

Case No. 20: Railroad Right of Way-Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway Company, 1879-1890. MF#5040

99-100

Special Case 63: Sioux Reservation Wagon Road Route No. 3. MF#5041

99-100

Sioux land cession to Poncas, 1881.

Case No. 96: To set aside certain lands in Nebraska as an addition to Sioux Reservation, 1880.

Case No. 101: Dakota Central Railway Company agreement with Sioux, 1880.

Case No. 104: Reduction of Great Sioux Reservation.

MF#5042

99-100

Case No. 203: Docket 74: The Black Hills Land Claim. Sioux Nation original papers, 1950-1965. MF#5072

99-100

Docket 74: The Black Hills Land Claim. Sioux Nation original papers, 1970s. MF#5073

99-100

Docket 74: The Black Hills Land Claim. Sioux Nation original papers, 1950s-1970s. MF#5074

99-100

Docket 74: The Black Hills Land Claim. Sioux Nation original papers, 1950s-1970s; land appraisals of Sioux Nation lands, 1969. MF#5075

99-100

Docket 74: The Black Hills Land Claim. Sioux Nation original papers, 1950s-1970s. Appraisal of the mineral resources in the lands of the Sioux Nation, Appraisal of lands of the Sioux Nation acquired by the United States under the Treaty of 1868; Appraisal of the lands of the Sioux Indian Tribe in ND, SD, NE, WY, and MT in 1869. MF#5076

99-100

Docket 74: The Black Hills Land Claim. Sioux Nation original papers, 1972-1976. MF#5077

99-100

Docket 74: The Black Hills Land Claim. Sioux Nation original papers, [1977-1981]. MF#5078

99-100

Docket 74: The Black Hills Land Claim. Sioux Nation original papers, [1983-1987]. MF#5079

99-100

Docket 74: The Black Hills Land Claim. Sioux Nation original papers, [1987-1989. Defendants appendix, Sioux Tribe letter file, vita. MF#5080

99-100

Docket 74: The Black Hills Land Claim. Sioux Nation original papers, 1960s. MF#5081

99-100

Docket 74: The Black Hills Land Claim. Sioux Nation original papers, 1960s. Sioux Nations and Yankton Sioux v. the United States MF#5082

99-100

Docket 74: The Black Hills Land Claim. Sioux Nation original papers, 1970-1971, 1982. MF#5083

99-100

Docket 74: The Black Hills Land Claim. Sioux Nation original papers: Yankton Sioux Tribe, 1970s, Sioux Tribes v U.S.A, 1987. MF#5084

99-100

Docket 74: The Black Hills Land Claim. Sioux Nation original papers: Plaintiff’s exhibits. MF#5085

99-100

Docket 74: The Black Hills Land Claim. Sioux Nation original papers: Plaintiff’s exhibits. MF#5086

99-100

Docket 74: The Black Hills Land Claim. Sioux Nation original papers: Plaintiff’s exhibits. MF#5087

99-100

Docket 74: The Black Hills Land Claim. Sioux Nation original papers: Plaintiff’s exhibits. MF#5088

99-100

Docket 74: The Black Hills Land Claim. Sioux Nation original papers: Plaintiff’s exhibits. MF#5089

99-100

Docket 115 - 119: The Sioux Tribes v. the U. S. A. MF#5095

99-100

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Wounded Knee

Special Case No. 188- The Ghost Dance, 1890-1898 (NNFN).

Dates NARA roll # SD Archives roll #
1890-91 1 4728
1891-98 2 4729

Papers

Access # Title Location
H76-24 Wounded Knee Compensation Records, 1891-1976. box 3564

Publications

Title Location
Wounded Knee Massacre: Hearings before the Committee Congress, Second Session, on S. 1147 and S. 2900 to liquidate the liability of the United States for the massacre of Sioux Indian men, women, and children at wounded Knee on December 29, 1890, February 5 and 6, 1976. Washington D.C.: GPO, 1976. KF26.J8 1976a
Reports and correspondence relating to the Army investigations of the Battle at Wounded Knee and to the Sioux campaign of 1890-1891. Washington: National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1975. E89.89. U54 1975

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SD State Archives,  605-773-3804, fax 605-773-6041; email archref@state.sd.us