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Badlands in the northern portion of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Located in southwest South Dakota, the reservation takes 3,400 square miles (8,800 km 2) of space. The nearest urban center, Rapid City, South Dakota, is 120 miles (190 km) from the center of the reservation. [101]
A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to federally recognized tribes ... Cheyenne River Reservation: Lakota: South Dakota: 8,090: 4,265.95 ...
Later acts of the U.S. Congress in 1877 and 1889 reduced Lakota territory to five reservations in western South Dakota, all remnants of the 1868 reservation. The Sioux nation successfully sued the United States for these encroachments, but the tribes have refused monetary compensation for illegally taken reservation lands.
The reservation covers almost all of Dewey and Ziebach counties in South Dakota. In addition, many small parcels of off-reservation trust land are located in Stanley, Haakon, and Meade counties. The total land area is 4,266.987 sq mi (11,051.447 km 2), making it the fourth-largest Indian reservation in land area in the United States.
The Rosebud Indian Reservation is located in south central South Dakota. It includes within its recognized border all of Todd County , an unincorporated county of South Dakota. The Oyate also have communities and extensive lands and populations in the four adjacent counties, which were once within the Rosebud Sioux Tribe (RST) boundaries: Tripp ...
The Lake Traverse Indian Reservation is the homeland of the federally recognized Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, a branch of the Santee Dakota group of Native Americans.Most of the reservation covers parts of five counties in northeastern South Dakota, while smaller parts are in two counties in southeastern North Dakota, United States.
Pages in category "American Indian reservations in South Dakota" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.