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The Spirit Lake Tribe (in Santee Dakota: MniwakaĆ Oyate, [2] also spelt as Mni Wakan Oyate, formerly known as Devils Lake Sioux Tribe) is a federally recognized tribe based on the Spirit Lake Dakota Reservation located in east-central North Dakota on the southern shores of Devils Lake.
Tokio is an unincorporated community in southeastern Benson County, North Dakota, United States, on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation. It lies southeast of the city of Minnewaukan, the county seat of Benson County. [2] It has a post office with the ZIP code 58379. [3]
English: A series of United States Indian reservation locator maps, constructed mostly with Tiger/LINE and BIA open data, with supplements from the Canadian and Mexican censuses. Generated on July 24, 2019.
Fort Totten is a census-designated place (CDP) in Benson County, North Dakota, United States.The population was 1,243 at the 2010 census. [4] Fort Totten is located within the Spirit Lake Reservation and is the site of tribal headquarters.
Spirit Lake Reservation: North Dakota: 4,238: 389.63 (1,009.15) ... A state designated American Indian reservation is the land area designated by a state for state ...
Additionally, the Spirit Lake Tribe had long since become self-sufficient. Indeed, as historian Heather Mulliner writes, "the army’s presence at Totten had become more a nuisance than a source of support." [3]: 325 The Spirit Lake Tribe had established their own government and police force, who often clashed with the soldiers at Fort Totten ...
Minnewaukan is a Sioux language word meaning "Spirit Water". [6] The town shares this name with the traditional Dakota language of the adjacent Spirit Lake Tribe , MniwakaĆ Oyate . Geography
The present site of Devils Lake was, historically, a territory of the Dakota people. However, the Sisseton, Wahpeton, and Cut-Head bands of the Dakotas were relocated to the Spirit Lake Reservation as a result of the 1867 treaty between the United States and the Dakota that established a reservation for those who had not been forcibly relocated to Crow Creek Reservation in what is now South ...