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Memorial to the treaties in Portage des Sioux. The Treaties of Portage des Sioux were a series of treaties at Portage des Sioux, Missouri in 1815 that officially were supposed to mark the end of conflicts between the United States and Native Americans at the conclusion of the War of 1812.
The Treaty of Traverse des Sioux (10 Stat. 949) was signed on July 23, 1851, at Traverse des Sioux in Minnesota Territory between the United States government and the Upper Dakota Sioux bands. In this land cession treaty, the Sisseton and Wahpeton Dakota bands sold 21 million acres of land in present-day Iowa , Minnesota and South Dakota to the ...
Treaty of Portage des Sioux: Treaty with the Teton 7 Stat. 125: Lakota: 1815 July 19 Treaty of Portage des Sioux: Treaty with the Sioux of the Lakes 7 Stat. 126: Mdewakantonwan Dakota: 1815 July 19 Treaty of Portage des Sioux: Treaty with the Sioux of St. Peter's River 7 Stat. 127: Wahpekute Dakota, Wahpetonwan Dakota: 1815 July 19 Treaty of ...
German settlers recorded Yankton land extended east into Minnesota to the Jeffers Petroglyphs Treaty of 1858 monument in Charles Mix County, South Dakota. The Yankton Treaty was a treaty signed in 1858 between the United States Government and the Yankton Sioux Tribe (Western Dakota), that ceded most of eastern South Dakota (11 million acres) to the U.S. Government. [1]
The provisions of the treaty can be summarized as follows: [1] Article 1: The reservations for the Sisseton and Wapheton were defined as that port of the land allotted to the Indians in the treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota lying south or west of the Minnesota River and occupied by those bands. Eighty acres of reservation land were to ...
The first treaty the United States signed with the Yankton people took place at Portage des Sioux on July 18, 1815. The second took place in Washington D.C., on October 21, 1837, and is recorded as Indian Treaty 226. By the late 1850s, pressure to open up what is now southeastern South Dakota to white settlement had become very strong.
Matika Wilbur photographed members of every federally recognized Native American tribe. She named the series Project 562 for the number of recognized tribes at the time.
Smaller areas of the initial Indian territories became separate reservations, usually populated with Indians from the tribe, which held the treaty right in 1851. [29] De Smet map of the 1851 Fort Laramie Indian territories (light area) The Crow territory outlined in the treaty was split to provide land to two different reservations.