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The Santee Sioux Reservation (Dakota: Isáŋyathi) of the Santee Sioux (also known as the Eastern Dakota) was established in 1863 in present-day Nebraska. The tribal seat of government is located in Niobrara, Nebraska , with reservation lands in Knox County .
The Dakota War of 1862, also known as the Sioux Uprising, the Dakota Uprising, the Sioux Outbreak of 1862, the Dakota Conflict, or Little Crow's War, was an armed conflict between the United States and several eastern bands of Dakota collectively known as the Santee Sioux.
In 1864 some from the Crow Creek Reservation were sent to St. Louis and then traveled by boat up the Missouri River, ultimately to the Santee Sioux Reservation. In the 21st century, the majority of the Santee live on reservations and reserves, and many in small and larger cities in Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Canada.
The tribe are members of the Mdewakantonwan people, one of the sub-tribes of the Isanti (Santee) Dakota originally from central Minnesota. In 1934, the Tribe was recognized under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. Today the Flandreau Santee Sioux Reservation is located on 2,500 acres (10 km 2) of land in South Dakota.
The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe is the only tribe that does not have any children in state custody. ... a professor of American history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and director of the ...
By 1862, seeing thousands of children and elders die from starvation while whites broke the laws by seizing prime Sioux lands, the Sioux rebelled in what historians called the Sioux "Uprising." Nearly 30 years later in 1885, Abbie Gardner-Sharp, by then married, published her short memoir of the 1856 attack and her captivity, entitled History ...
All nine South Dakota tribes have officially endorsed the banishment of Gov. Kristi Noem from their lands. Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe's executive council voted Tuesday in favor of banishing the ...
All of South Dakota’s nine indigenous tribes have voted to ban Gov. Kristi Noem from their lands. On Tuesday, the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe executive council ruled in favor of barring the ...