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Creighton Leland Robertson (1976), Chief Judge of the Sisseton Wapheton Oyate Reservation Tribal Court Charles Abourezk (1992), current Chief Justice of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe Supreme Court , 2014–present.
He was the attorney for the Sisseton Wapheton Oyate and a tribal judge. He worked for the South Dakota Department of Labor and served on the South Dakota Human Rights Commission. In 1986, Robertson studied for the Episcopalian ministry at the University of the South and graduated with an M.Div. in 1989. [1]
The Treaty with the Sioux, 1858 was signed on June 19, 1858, between the United States government and representatives of the Sisseton and Wahpeton bands of Dakota. [1] This treaty defined the boundaries of the Lower Sioux reservation as that portion of the strip defined in the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux lying south of the Minnesota River.
These include "Wovoka" by Redbone, "The Land is Your Mother" by Floyd Red Crow Westerman (Sisseton-Wapheton Dakota) and "Oil 4 Blood" by Frank Waln (Sicangu Lakota), among many others. Since the 1980s, songs by non-Native musicians have drawn upon literature written by Native Americans to condemn the injustices committed by white people.