Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The tribe's reservation is the Yankton Indian Reservation, established in 1853 in Charles Mix County, South Dakota. The tribe has a land base of 36,741 acres (148.69 km 2 ). [ 9 ] Most of the tribe moved onto the reservation in the 1860s.
The reservation occupies the easternmost 60 percent of Charles Mix County in southeastern South Dakota, United States and abuts the Missouri River along its southwest border. It has a land area of 665.712 sq mi (1,724.186 km 2 ) and a total area (land and water) of 684.406 sq mi (1,772.604 km 2 ), and a resident population of 6,500 persons as ...
There are approximately 326 federally recognized Indian Reservations in the United States. [1] Most of the tribal land base in the United States was set aside by the federal government as Native American Reservations. In California, about half of its reservations are called rancherías. In New Mexico, most reservations are called Pueblos.
Map of states with US federally recognized tribes marked in yellow. States with no federally recognized tribes are marked in gray. Federally recognized tribes are those Native American tribes recognized by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs as holding a government-to-government relationship with the US federal government. [1]
The easternmost approximately 60% of the county comprises the Yankton Indian Reservation. The Papineau Trading Post, whose building is now in Geddes, South Dakota, was an early county seat. [5] Geddes tried to wrest the county seat from Wheeler in 1900, 1904, and 1908. [6] The Charles Mix County Courthouse in Lake Andes was built in 1918. [6]
Lake Andes is located within the Yankton Sioux Tribe's reservation. [8] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.82 square miles (2.12 km 2), of which 0.80 square miles (2.07 km 2) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km 2) is water. [9]
Two more Indigenous Tribes have banned Gov. Kristi Noem from entering their Tribal land adjacent to South Dakota, marking the latest escalation in an ongoing clash between Noem and Tribal leaders ...
Indiana's code is 18, which when combined with any county code would be written as 18XXX. The FIPS code for each county links to census data for that county. [5] In Indiana, the most commonly seen number associated with counties is the state county code, which is a sequential number based on the alphabetical order of the county.