Standing Rock Agency (see also Grand River Agency)
The Grand River Agency was created in 1869, although correspondence relating to it was filed with the records of the Upper Platte Agency until 1871. In 1873 the Agency was moved 50 miles upstream on the Missouri River near present day Fort Yates, North Dakota. The name of the agency was changed to Standing Rock in 1874. Standing Rock served bands of both Upper and Lower Yanktonai, Cutheads, Hunkpapa, and Blackfeet.
Influential headmen for these groups included: Yanktonai--Two Bears and Black Eyes; Cut Heads--All Over Black; Blackfeet--The Grass; Hunkpapa--Sitting Bull, Four Horn, Iron Dog, Slave, Little Knife, Gall, Rain-in-the-Face, and Red Horn.
Today the Standing Rock Reservation is located in both North and South Dakota. Its 562,366- acre land base is mainly found in Corson County in South Dakota. A monument to Sitting Bull is located at his grave in the southeast corner of the reservation. Contemporary scholars Patricia Locke (educator) and Beatrice Medicine (anthropologist) are from the Standing Rock Reservation.
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ACCESSION TITLE AND DESCRIPTION LOCATION NO. H75-313 Bullhead District Indian Census, 1906-1908. Box 3549A Handwritten list of Indians living in Bullhead District from 1906-1908. Includes name, age, gender, and other numbers, some of which may be allotment numbers. Survey taken by Carl Gunderson of Vermillion and Mitchell. 2002-030 Standing Rock Agency Correspondence, 1883, 1890 Box 7600D One file containing photocopies of correspondence from Standing Rock Agency regarding a buffalo hunt in 1883, and the arrest of Sitting Bull in 1890.
Special Census of Indians, 1880 (M1791).
Section 8 of the census act of March 3, 1879 (20 Stat. 475) authorized the Superintendent of the Census to “employ special agents or other means to make an enumeration of all Indians not taxed, within the jurisdiction of the United States, with such information as to their condition as may be obtainable.” A special enumeration therefore was taken of Indians living near military reservations.
The enumerators were instructed to include all persons “who were living on the 1st day of October, 1880.” This microfilm publication contains the results of that census. The roll listed
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below was purchased by the State Archives for its relevance to South Dakota tribes. The complete publication (5 rolls) is available from the National Archives.
CONTENTS NARA ROLL # MF LOCATION Standing Rock Agency, Standing Rock Reservation - 4 4730 Miniconjou, Oglala, and Hunkpapa Tribes (interfiled)
Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1939 (M595).
Because Indians on reservations were not citizens until 1974, nineteenth and early twentieth century census takers did not count Indians for congressional representation. Instead, the U.S. government took special censuses in connection with Indian treaties, the last of which was in 1871. The result of many treaties was to extinguish Indian ties to land. Typically, the Indians agreed to reduce their landholdings or to move to an area less desired for white settlement. Some treaties provided for the dissolution of the tribes and the allotment of land to individual Indians. The censuses determined who was eligible for the allotments.
These census rolls were usually submitted each year by agents or superintendents in charge of Indian reservations, as required by an act of July 4, 1884. The data on the rolls vary to some extent, but usually given are the English and/or Indian name of the person, roll number, age or date of birth, sex, and relationship to head of family. Beginning in 1930, the rolls also show the degree of Indian blood, marital status, ward status, place of residence, and sometimes other information. For certain years – including 1935, 1936, 1938, and 1939 – only supplemental rolls of additions and deletions were compiled. Most of the 1940 rolls have been retained by the Bureau of Indian affairs and are not included in this publication.
CONTENTS NARA ROLL # MF LOCATION Standing Rock (Sioux Indians), 1885-1899 547-549 9685 Standing Rock (Sioux Indians), 1900-1911 550-552 9686 Standing Rock (Sioux Indians), 1912-1913, 1915-1924 553-555 9687 Standing Rock (Sioux Indians), 1925-1931, 1932 (with 556-558 9688 birth and death rolls, 1924-1932) Standing Rock (Sioux Indians), 1933-1936 559-561 9689 Standing Rock (Sioux Indians), 1937-1939 562-563 9690
General Land Office, Timber Allocations, 1915-1918.
CONTENTS MF LOCATION Timber Allocations, Standing Rock Reservation, 1915-1918, 515 Vol. 1 and 2 Timber Allocations, Standing Rock Reservation, 1915-1918, 516 Vol. 3 and 4
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Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1875-1880 (M234).
The records in this microfilm publication consist of communications received by the Office of Indian Affairs from the Standing Rock Agency concerning the general situation of the Indians, their population, education, health, and medical care, and their agriculture and subsistence. The letters cover such matters of administrative concern as emigration, land allotments, annuity payments, depredations, claims, complaints, traders, buildings, supplies, employees, and accounts. Correspondence is grouped by year and thereunder arranged alphabetically by initial letter of surname or official position of the writer. Within each alphabetical section, correspondence is arranged by file number, which was assigned to each letter as they were registered.
CONTENTS NARA ROLL # MF LOCATION Standing Rock Agency, 1875-1876 (B829) 846 1484 Standing Rock Agency, 1876 (B835)-1877 (H181) 847 1485 Standing Rock Agency, 1877 (H182-W1124) 848 1485 Standing Rock Agency, 1878 (A295-W42) 849 1486 Standing Rock Agency, 1878 (W116)-1879 850 1487 Standing Rock Agency, 1880 (A81-S1874) 851 1487 Standing Rock Agency, 1880 (S1885-W2575) 852 1488
Letters Received by the Department of War, 1824-1878.
Microfilm purchased by the SD State Archives from the National Archives. Contains reports and correspondence related to Fort Rice in Dakota Territory.
CONTENTS NARA ROLL # MF LOCATION Military Expedition against the Arikara, 1824 C337 (17) 6383B Correspondence, 1872-1878 • Standing Rock, 1872-1878 • Ft. Rice, 1872-1875 • Ft. Abraham Lincoln, 1875 Ft. Rice, Post Orders, 1876-1877 (incomplete) Ft. Rice, Endorsement Book, 1878
Publications
TITLE LOCATION Report of the Commission appointed by direction of the E83.866 .U58 President of the United States, under instructions of the honorables, the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Interior, to meet the Sioux Indian Chief, Sitting Bull, with a view to avert hostile incursions into the territory of the United States from the Dominion of Canada. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1877.
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TITLE LOCATION Chief Martin Charger, Pretty Bear, and certain other E99.D1 G6 U5 Indians. 59th Cong. 1st sess. Senate. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1906.
Records, 1864-1922.
These records are housed at the National Archives regional records center in Kansas City, Missouri. As part of the Indian Archives Project, the South Dakota State Archives paid to have these records microfilmed to make them more accessible to tribal members in South Dakota.
The Standing Rock Indian Agency records are largely unarranged. Groups of like records were selected by the State Archives for filming. Each filmed group is preceded by a target noting the records filmed and, in some cases, including a folder title list. The target and folder title lists were prepared by the staff of the Central Plains Region. This microfilm set should not be construed as being a complete reproduction of the records of the Standing Rock Indian Agency.
SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 - 1 5474 The following letterpress copy books were selected from a larger series of records. The letters and reports were sent by the agent to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, commercial suppliers, schools, missionary associations, other government officials, private citizens, and others having business with the Standing Rock Indian Agency. Some of the subjects discussed are general policy, education, missions, supplies, and financial matters. Volumes were filmed in chronological order, and most have indexes. • May 8, 1890 – Dec 31, 1883
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 2 5475 (continued) • Jan 1, 1884 – Nov 20, 1884
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 3 5476 (continued) • Nov 21, 1884 – Apr 20, 1886
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 4 5477 (continued) • Apr 20, 1886 – Mar 26, 1887
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 5 5478 (continued) • Mar 26, 1887 – Nov 26, 1887
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 6 5479 (continued) • Nov 28, 1887 – Dec 3, 1888
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 7 5480 (continued) • Dec 4, 1888 – Aug 6, 1889
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 8 5481 (continued) • Aug 6, 1889 – May 5, 1890
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 9 5482 (continued) • Jun 18, 1891 – Dec 31, 1891
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 10 5483 (continued) • Jan 1, 1892 – Jun 2, 1892
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 11 5484 (continued) • Jan 2, 1892 – Dec 31, 1892
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 12 5485 (continued) • Jan 1, 1893 – Aug 11, 1893
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 13 5486 (continued) • Aug 12, 1893 – Mar 20, 1894
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 14 5487 (continued) • Mar 21, 1894 – Sep 6, 1894
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 15 5488 (continued) • Sep 7, 1894 – May 21, 1895
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 16 5489 (continued) • May 21, 1895 – Apr 6, 1896
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 17 5490 (continued) • Apr 7, 1896 – Nov 4, 1896
Letterpress Volumes (with alphabetical indexes), 1883-1897 18 5491 (continued) • Nov 5, 1896 – Aug 4, 1896
Allotment Cards, 1910-1920 19 5492 • Reports of Unallotted Indians, after 1920 (lists of unallotted Indians on Standing Rock, arranged by allotment number) • Allotment Index (list of names and allotment numbers assigned to each location, arranged by land location) • Allotted Lands – Burned Lands Owned by Indians, undated (entries include the location, allotment number, name of allottee, acreage, and totals burned) • Allotments, 1905-1906 o This folder includes the rules used for assigning allotments, and correspondence and reports regarding J.W. Bristow killing Albert Smuttybear, the re-leasing of Lemmon pasture, the purchase of stock cattle in lieu of irregular paid labor, the pensioning of Indian policemen involved in the Sitting Bull outbreak, and the naming of the Martin Kenel Agricultural Boarding School. • Allotment Cards o People born after March 20, 1915 who had no claim (includes name, number, and date of birth) o Patent in Fee, A-V (includes name, number, location, acreage, date issued, patent number, and district or address)
Allotment Cards, 1910-1920 (continued) 20 5493 • Allotment Cards (continued) o Patent in Fee, W-Z o Identity Cards, A-We (includes name, number, and occasionally a thumbprint or the name and location of the person’s bank)
Allotment Cards, 1910-1920 (continued) 21 5494 • Allotment Cards (continued) o Identity Cards (continued), Wh-Z
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION Land – Correspondence and Related Records 21 5494 • Correspondence – Farming Land and Timber, 1913 • Land Letterpress Volume 1 – Applications for Land Patents and Sales, Dec 14, 1909 – Jun 14, 1910
Land – Correspondence and Related Records 22 5495 • Land Letterpress Volume 1 – Applications for Land Patents and Sales (continued), Jun 10, 1910 – Oct 4, 1910 • Land Letterpress Volume 2 – Lease Land Free from Control, Jan 21, 1910 (no name index) • Land Letterpress Volume 3 – Applications for Land Patents and Sales, Oct 4, 1910 – Dec 19, 1910 • Land Letterpress Volume 4 – Commissioner’s Land Matters, Jun 15, 1910 – Aug 31, 1910
Land – Correspondence and Related Records 23 5496 • Land Letterpress Volume 4 – Commissioner’s Land Matters (continued), Aug 30, 1910 – Dec 19, 1910 • Land Letterpress Volume 5 – Miscellaneous Land, Jun 15, 1910 – Sep 1910 (majority of volume too dark to read)
Land – Correspondence and Related Records 24 5497 • Land Letterpress Volume 5 – Miscellaneous Land (continued), Sep 28, 1910 – Nov 2, 1910 • Land Letterpress Volume 6 – Miscellaneous Land, Nov 2, 1910 – Dec 19, 1910 • Correspondence - Land Sales, 1915-1916 • Correspondence – Indian Land Sales and Other Miscellaneous Matters, 1916 (2 folders)
Land – Correspondence and Related Records 25 5498 • Correspondence – Indian Land Sales and Other Miscellaneous Matters, 1916 (2 folders, continued) • Correspondence – General Land Office, L.C. Lippert, 1946 • “Indian Land Problems and Policies” Booklet, 1934 • Patents in Fee Book 1, 1910-1912 • Patents in Fee Book 2, 1908-1916 • Record of Sales Book 1 – Petitions for Sale of Indian Lands, 1909-1910 (information includes allotment number, allottee, name of petitioner, dates listed, dates bids opened, names of bidders and amount, grantor, grantee, date of sale, date of deed, legal land description, acreage, price per acre, payment amounts and dates, and date of approval)
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION • Record of Sales Book 2, 1910 25 5498 • Record of Sales Book 3 – Petitions for Sale of Indian Lands, 1914-1916 (information includes allotment number, name of allottee, legal description of land, acreage, appraised value, condition, date transmitted, date approved, and remarks)
Land – Correspondence and Related Records 26 5499 • Record of Sales Book 3 – Petitions for Sale of Indian Lands (continued), 1916 • Record of Sales Book 4, 1908-1910 • Record of Sales Book 5, 1910-1911 • Land Sales Cards (form 5-401a), 1910-1912 (unnumbered, filmed in alphabetical order) • Land Sales Cards (form 5-401a), 1909-1910 (filmed in numerical order by sale number), #1-192
Land – Correspondence and Related Records 27 5500 • Land Sales Cards (form 5-401a), 1909-1910 (continued), #193-346 • Land Sales Cards (form 5-401a), 1915-1940, #30-259
Land – Correspondence and Related Records 28 5501 • Land Sales Cards (form 5-401a), 1915-1940 (continued), #260-537
Land – Correspondence and Related Records 29 5502 • Land Sales Cards (form 5-401a), 1915-1940 (continued), #538-811
Land – Correspondence and Related Records 30 5503 • Land Sales Cards (form 5-401a), 1915-1940 (continued), #812-1182
Land – Correspondence and Related Records 31 5504 • Land Sales Cards (form 5-401a), 1915-1940 (continued), #1183-1313, #1018-1086 • Land Sales Cards (form 5-401a), 1924-1925 (unnumbered, filmed in alphabetical order) • Sales to Allottees, 1911-1923 (index cards arranged alphabetically by surname), A-K
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION Land – Correspondence and Related Records 32 5505 • Sales to Allottees, 1911-1923 (continued), L-Z • “Schedule of Lands in the Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian Reservations to be Opeend on May 2, 1910,” 1910 • Schedules of Ranges, 1936 (lists of permitees that include the range number; name of permitee; acreage of tribal land, allotted land, school land, leased allotted land, competent Indian land, deeded land, total Indian land, and grand total area; grazing permit beginning and ending dates; and grazing carrying capacity of land) • Statement Opening Standing Rock Lands, 1915 • Correspondence – Tribal Land Census, 1936-1937 • Tribal Land Restoration Program, undated (list of lands included in program) • Correspondence – Tribal Land Status, 1937 • Land Utilization Meeting Transcript, 1940 • List of Vacant, Unreserved Lands as of September 1934
Field Notes of Boundary Surveys, 1890-1894 33 5506 • Sections 35 and 36 of T129N, R79W • The West Boundary of the Sioux Indian Reservation (South Fork of the Cannon Ball River to the Cheyenne River), 1890 • 4th Standard Parallel North of the Black Hills Meridian from Range 17 through Range 29 East • Supplemental Survey of the 4th Standard Parallel North of the Black Hills Meridian through Ranges 29 and 30 East • 5th Standard Parallel North of the Black Hills Meridian from Range 17 East to the Right Bank of the Missouri River • Supplemental Survey of the 5th Standard Parallel North of the Black Hills Meridian through Ranges 23, 24, and 31 East • 5th Guide Meridian between Ranges 20 and 21 East through Townships 17, 18, 19, and 20 North of the Black Hills Meridian • 6th Guide Meridian between Ranges 24 and 25 East through Townships 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21 North of the Black Hills Meridian • 7th Guide Meridian between Ranges 28 and 29 East through Townships 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23 North of the Black Hills Meridian
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION • Line between Ranges 25 and 26 East through Townships 33 5506 17, 18, 19, and 20 North and the line between Townships 19 and 20 North through Range 25 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Line between Ranges 29 and 30 East through Townships 17, 18, 19, and 20 North; the line between Townships 18 and 19 North through Range 29 East; and the line between Townships 19 and 20 North through Ranges 29 and 30 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Line between Ranges 30 and 31 East through Township 21 North; the line between Ranges 20 and 30 East through Townships 21 and 22 North; and the line between Townships 21 and 22 North through Ranges 29 and 30 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Line between Townships 21 and 22 North through Range 24 East; and the line between Ranges 23 and 24 East through Township 27 North of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines in Township 21 North, Range 24 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 20 North, Range 25 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 25 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 29 East of the Black Hills Meridian
Field Notes of Boundary Surveys, 1899-1902 34 5507 • 12th Guide Meridian West of the 5th Principal Meridian, from the South Boundary of North Dakota to the South Fork of the Cannon Ball River within the Standing Rock Indian Reservation • West and North Boundaries of Townships 18 and 19 North of Ranges 27 and 28 East; and the West Boundaries of Township 20 North of Ranges 27 and 28 East, and Township 18 North of Range 31 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 37 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 27 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 19 North, Range 28 East of the Black Hills Meridian
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, 34 5507 Range 28 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 28 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 18 North, Range 29 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 19 North, Range 29 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 19 North, Range 30 East of the Black Hills Meridian • West Boundaries of Townships 18, 19, and 20 North of Range 24 East; and the North Boundaries of Township 18 North of Ranges 24, 25, and 26, and of Township 19 North of Ranges 24 and 26 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 24 East of the Black Hills Meridian
Field Notes of Boundary Surveys, 1899 35 5508 • Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 24 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 24 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 25 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 25 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 18 North, Range 30 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 26 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 19 North, Range 26 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 18 North, Range 26 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 27 East of the Black Hills Meridian • North Boundaries of Townships 11 North of Range 20 East, Townships 9, 10, and 11 North of Range 21 East, and Townships 18 and 19 North of Ranges 21, 22, and 23 East; and the East Boundaries of Townships 10, 11, and 12 North of Range 21 East, Townships 18, 19, and 20 North of Ranges 21 and 22 East of the Black Hills Meridian
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, 35 5508 Range 23 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 23 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 23 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 22 East of the Black Hills Meridian
Field Notes of Boundary Surveys, 1899-1902 36 5509 • Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 22 East of the Black Hills Meridian (continued) • Line between Ranges 30 and 31 East through Township 20 North; Line between Ranges 29 and 30 East through Township 23 North; Line between Townships 22 and 23 North through Ranges 29 and 30 East; and the Resurvey of the North and East Boundaries of Township 21 North of Range 30 East; and the South Boundary of Township 21 North of Range 31 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 28 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 27 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 26 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 21 North, Range 25 East of the Black Hills Meridian • 6th Guide Meridian through Townships 22 and 23 North of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 23 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Fractional Township 23 North, Range 23 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Fractional Township 23 North, Range 24 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 24 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 30 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 31 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Meander Lines of Fractional Township 21 North of Range 31 East of the Black Hills Meridian
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Fractional Township 21 36 5509 North, Range 30 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 29 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 22 North, Range 30 East of the Black Hills Meridian
Field Notes of Boundary Surveys, 1899-1902 37 5510 • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 22 North, Range 30 East of the Black Hills Meridian (continued) • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 29 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 23 North, Range 30 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Fractional Township 23 North, Range 29 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 28 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Fractional Township 23 North, Range 28 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 27 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Fractional Township 23 North, Range 27 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 26 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Fractional Township 23 North, Range 26 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 25 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 23 North, Range 25 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 22 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 21 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 21 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 21 East of the Black Hills Meridian • 5th Guide Meridian East (between Ranges 20 and 21 East) through Townships 21, 22, and 23 North of the Black Hills Meridian
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, 37 5510 Range 22 East of the Black Hills Meridian
Field Notes of Boundary Surveys, 1900 38 5511 • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 22 East of the Black Hills Meridian (continued) • North Boundaries of Townships 21 and 22 North through Ranges 21 and 22 East; and the West Boundaries of Range 22 East through Townships 21, 22 and 23 North of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 21 North, Range 23 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 22 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 22 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 23 North, Range 22 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 23 North, Range 21 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 21 East of the Black Hills Meridian • West Boundaries of Townships 18, 19, and 20 North of Ranges 18, 19, and 20 East; and the North Boundaries of Townships 18 and 19 North of Ranges 17, 18, 19, and 20 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 20 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 20 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 20 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 19 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 18 East of the Black Hills Meridian
Field Notes of Boundary Surveys, 1900-1904 39 5512 • Subdivision Lines of Township 18 North, Range 18 East of the Black Hills Meridian (continued) • Subdivision Lines of Fractional Township 18 North, Range 17 East of the Black Hills Meridian
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION • Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 19 East of 39 5512 the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Township 20 North, Range 19 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 20 North, Range 18 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 21 East of the Black Hills Meridian • East Boundaries of Townships 21, 22, and 23 North of Ranges 17, 18 and 19 East; and the North Boundaries of Townships 21 and 22 North of Ranges 17, 18, 19, and 20 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 20 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 20 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 19 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 18 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 21 North, Range 17 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 23 North, Range 20 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 23 North, Range 19 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 19 East of the Black Hills Meridian
Field Notes of Boundary Surveys, 1902-1907 40 5513 • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 19 East of the Black Hills Meridian (continued) • Subdivision Lines of Township 23 North, Range 18 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 18 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 22 North, Range 17 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 23 North, Range 17 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 18 East of the Black Hills Meridian
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION • East Boundaries of Township 19 North of Ranges 17 and 18 40 5513 East, and Township 20 North of Range 17 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 19 North, Range 17 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision Lines of Township 20 North, Range 17 East of the Black Hills Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Townships 129 and 130 North of Ranges 84 and 85 West of the 5th Principal Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Townships 129 and 130 North of Ranges 86 and 87 West of the 5th Principal Meridian • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Townships 129 and 130 North of Ranges 88 and 89 West of the 5th Principal Meridian Field Notes of Boundary Surveys, 1907 41 5514 • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Townships 129 and 130 North of Ranges 88 and 89 West of the 5th Principal Meridian (continued) • Subdivision and Meander Lines of Townships 129 and 130 North of Ranges 90 and 91 West of the 5th Principal Meridian Plats – Maps, Land Tract Descriptions, and Timber Allotments, 1907-1936 • Plat Maps,1913 - “Opened Portion” of Standing Rock, plats are arranged by township and range numbers and show location of allotments. • Lists of allotments by location and date deeded, 1923-1936 • Timber Allotment Plats o Agency District, undated o Cannon Ball District, undated o Kenel District, 1936 o Little Eagle District, undated o Wakpala District, 1936 Pony Payment Rolls, 1892-1896 – lists of Indians who received payment as compensation for ponies lost; information includes the individual’s name, age, sex, amount paid, names of witnesses, and date of payment. Survey of Individuals, 1922-1923 – includes individual’s name, age, degree, legal status, allottee number, date surveyed, location of home, description of family, stock and crops owned, and other remarks by the surveyor; listed in alphabetical order by last name. (A – Eagle)
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION Survey of Individuals, 1922-1923 – (Eagle – Zahn) 42 5515
Marriages, Registers and Licenses, 1890-1922 43 5516 • Record of Marriages of Indians by the Indian Agent at Standing Rock Agency, N.D., 1890-1901 • Marriage Register, 1896-1902 • Marriage Licenses, 1901-1905
Marriages, Registers and Licenses, 1890-1922 (continued) 44 5517 • Marriage Licenses, 1905-1916
Marriages, Registers and Licenses, 1890-1922 (continued) 45 5518 • Marriage Licenses, 1916-1922 Heirship, 1909-1927 • Cards, Inherited Interest in Estates, 1909-1917 (lists name of deceased, date of death, year born, names of heirs, dates of hearings and/or probate, and value of estate), arranged by allotment number, #1-1085, #3309-3578, #1098-1282
Heirship, 1909-1927 (continued) 46 5519 • Cards, Inherited Interest in Estates, 1909-1917, #1438-3247
Heirship, 1909-1927 (continued) 47 5520 • Cards, Inherited Interest in Estates, 1909-1917, #3249- 3300, #3581-4760 • Cards, Inherited Interest in Estates, arranged alphabetically by surname, A-Bad Moccasin
Heirship, 1909-1927 (continued) 48 5521 • Cards, Inherited Interest in Estates, arranged alphabetically by surname, Bad Woman-Chasing Hawk
Heirship, 1909-1927 (continued) 49 5522 • Cards, Inherited Interest in Estates, arranged alphabetically by surname, Chasing Hawk-Higheagle
Heirship, 1909-1927 (continued) 50 5523 • Cards, Inherited Interest in Estates, arranged alphabetically by surname, High Eagle-Shoots the Enemy
Heirship, 1909-1927 (continued) 51 5524 • Cards, Inherited Interest in Estates, arranged alphabetically by surname, Shoots the Enemy-Z
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION • Coffin Sales, 1921-1923 51 5524 • Copy of Decisions in Heirship Cases, 1911-1927
Heirship, 1909-1927 (continued) 52 5525 • Departmental Findings Determining the Heirs of Deceased Indians, 1911-1916 • Inherited or Non-Competent Indian Lands, 1908-1912 – Sales Materials Relating to Sitting Bull – contains information about Sitting Bull, a memorial to Sitting Bull, Indian War pensions, and related materials selected from Annual Reports and the Decimal Correspondence Files. • 1883 Annual Report [Rough Draft] • Decimal Correspondence 044 – Monuments and Memorials, 1919-1934 (Sitting Bull, Custer, Armistice Day, Memorial Day) • Decimal Correspondence 053.0 - Genealogy/Family History Inquiries (focused on Sitting Bull, Gall, Brave Bear, Iron Cedar, Frosted), 1906-1938 • Decimal Correspondence 053 – Historical Inquiries, 1919- 1937 • Decimal Correspondence 600.1 - Removal of Bodies of Sitting Bull, Gall, and Rain-in-the-Face, 1908-1928 • Decimal Correspondence 600.1 - Indian Wars, 1926 • Decimal Correspondence 727.0 - Survivors of Sitting Bull Battle, 1928
Materials Relating to Sitting Bull (continued) 53 5526 • Decimal Correspondence 727.0 - Survivors of Sitting Bull Battle (continued), 1928-1938
Historical Events, Letters and Telegrams, 1864-1898 – These files contain correspondence and telegrams received by the Standing Rock Agency. The files are mostly unarranged, although they appear to be roughly in chronological order with significant overlap between files. Correspondence documents the administration of the agency, including payment records, employee lists, school and student records, policies and procedures, and other business.
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION • Administration of Grand River & Standing Rock, 1864- 53 5526 1898 • Correspondence Received, 1864-1873
Historical Events, Letters and Telegrams, 1864-1898 54 5527 (continued) • Correspondence Received, 1873-1876
Historical Events, Letters and Telegrams, 1864-1898 55 5528 (continued) • Correspondence Received, 1875-1877
Historical Events, Letters and Telegrams, 1864-1898 56 5529 (continued) • Correspondence Received, 1877-1878 • Indian Office and Personal Letters, 1879-1882 • Miscellaneous Letters – Dept. of the Interior to Indian Agents, 1880
Historical Events, Letters and Telegrams, 1864-1898 57 5530 (continued) • Miscellaneous Letters – Dept. of the Interior to Indian Agents, 1880-1881, 1877-1882 • Miscellaneous Correspondence from Dept. of the Interior to Standing Rock Agency, 1879-1881 • Personal and Business Letters, U.S. Indian Agent (Standing Rock), 1878-1881
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 58 5531 (continued) • Personal and Business Letters, U.S. Indian Agent (Standing Rock), 1879-1881 • Indian Agent Letters – James McLaughlin, 1880-1881 • Miscellaneous Correspondence – James McLaughlin, 1878- 1884
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 59 5532 (continued) • Miscellaneous Correspondence – James McLaughlin, 1880- 1882 • Indian Office and Miscellaneous Letters (James McLaughlin) and Telegrams (J.A. Stephan), 1880-1882
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 60 5533 (continued) • Indian Office and Miscellaneous Letters (James McLaughlin) and Telegrams (J.A. Stephan), 1881-1883 • Indian Office Letters – James McLaughlin, 1881-1882 • Correspondence to James McLaughlin Concerning Claim to Child, 1883 • Indian Office and Miscellaneous Letters, 1881-1883
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 61 5534 (continued) • Indian Office and Miscellaneous Letters, 1883-1884
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 62 5535 (continued) • Indian Office and Miscellaneous Letters, 1883-1884 • Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1884
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 63 5536 (continued) • Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1884 • Indian Office and Miscellaneous Letters – James McLaughlin, U.S. Indian Agent, 1884 • Miscellaneous Correspondence – James McLaughlin, 1885
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 64 5537 (continued) • Miscellaneous Correspondence – James McLaughlin, 1885 (continued) • Dept. of Interior Correspondence to Indian Agent, 1886
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 65 5538 (continued) • Dept. of Interior Correspondence to Standing Rock, 1886 • Correspondence Received, 1886
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 66 5539 (continued) • Correspondence Received, 1886 (some 1885 at end of folder) • Personal Letters and Telegrams of Agent McLaughlin, 1886-1887
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 67 5540 (continued) • Personal Letters and Telegrams of Agent McLaughlin, 1887
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 68 5541 (continued) • Personal Letters and Telegrams of Agent McLaughlin, 1886-1887 • Personnel Letters, 1888 • Letters Received by James McLaughlin, 1888-1889
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 69 5542 (continued) • Letters Received by James McLaughlin, 1888 • Correspondence Received, 1888
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 70 5543 (continued) • Correspondence Received, 1888-1889 • Miscellaneous Correspondence – James McLaughlin, 1888- 1889
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 71 5544 (continued) • Miscellaneous Correspondence – James McLaughlin, Nov- Dec 1889 • Correspondence, 1883, 1888-1890, 1892, 1895, 1908 • Correspondence, 1883, 1888-1891
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 72 5545 (continued) • Correspondence, 1891-1892, 1901-1902 • Letters, 1890 (school reports), 1883, 1890
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 73 5546 (continued) • Correspondence Received by Agent McLaughlin, 1890 • Correspondence Received by Agent McLaughlin, 1889- 1890 (teachers, employment letters, school reports)
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 74 5547 (continued) • Correspondence Received by Agent McLaughlin, 1890
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION • Personal Letters – James McLaughlin, 1891 74 5547 • Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1890-1891
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 75 5548 (continued) • Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1891, 1884 (school reports and student lists, trading licenses) • Miscellaneous Correspondence, James McLaughlin – USI Agent, 1891 • Indian Office Letters, 1891 • Commissioner’s and Private Correspondence (McLaughlin), 1890-1891 (includes 1890 Standing Rock census, and student/employee lists)
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 76 5549 (continued) • Commissioner’s and Private Correspondence (McLaughlin), 1891, 1895 (includes student lists) • Correspondence Received by James McLaughlin, 1892 (includes student lists) • Letters and Telegrams Received, 1892
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 77 5550 (continued) • Letters and Telegrams Received, 1892 • Personal and Miscellaneous Letters, 1892-1893
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 78 5551 (continued) • Personal and Miscellaneous Letters, 1892 • Department of the Interior Correspondence (McLaughlin), 1892 • Petitions to Participate in Columbian Exhibition of the World’s Fair, 1892 • Department of the Interior Correspondence, 1892
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 79 5552 (continued) • Department of the Interior Correspondence, 1891-1892 • Miscellaneous Letters, 1892, 1894 • Correspondence – Dept. Of Interior to Standing Rock, 1893 • Business Letters to James McLaughlin, 1893
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 80 5553 (continued) • Business Letters to James McLaughlin, 1893 • Miscellaneous Correspondence and Telegrams to James McLaughlin, 1893 • Personal and Business Correspondence to James McLaughlin, 1893
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 81 (continued) 5554 • Personal and Business Correspondence to James McLaughlin, 1893
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 82 5555 (continued) • Personal and Business Correspondence to James McLaughlin, 1893-1897, 1890-1894
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 83 5556 (continued) • Personal and Business Correspondence to James McLaughlin, 1894 • Business and Personal Correspondence, 1894 • Personal and Business Letters to James McLaughlin, 1894
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 84 5557 (continued) • Personal and Business Letters to James McLaughlin, 1894 • Business and Personal Correspondence to Standing Rock, 1894
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 85 5558 (continued) • Business and Personal Correspondence to Standing Rock, 1894 • Business and Personal Correspondence, 1894-1895 • Business and Personal Correspondence, 1897 • Business Letters to James McLaughlin, 1894 (Office of Indian Affairs)
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SERIES DESCRIPTION NARA MF ROLL # LOCATION Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 86 5559 (continued) • Business Letters to James McLaughlin, 1894 (Office of Indian Affairs) • Miscellaneous Papers and Correspondence from and to Standing Rock, 1895-1896 • Miscellaneous Letters, 1895
Historical Events, Letters, and Telegrams, 1864-1898 87 5560 (continued) • Miscellaneous Letters, 1895-1896 • Financial Correspondence, 1895 (Commissioner) • Personal and Business Letters to Standing Rock, 1895
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Special Case Files, 1882-1970.
These files were selected from the Bureau of Indian Affair’s Special Case files for their pertinence to the Indian nations of South Dakota. They were microfilmed at the request of the SD State Archives. The originals are available in Washington, D.C. at the National Archives. The files listed here pertain to the Standing Rock Agency. For a complete list of Special Case files at the State Archives, see the “Special Topics” section of this guide.
The Special Case files bring related documents together from different places in the general incoming correspondence. Subjects mostly deal with land and property matters.
DESCRIPTION MF LOCATION Investigation of Standing Rock Agency, 1911-1912. 5039 Case #180 - Sale of lands in Redwood Co, Minnesota “for 5041 the relief of the Mdewakanton band of Sioux Indians” (H.R. 10869), 1889-1906. Case #63 – Sioux Reservation, Wagon Road Route No. 3, 1882-1884 Case #83 – Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Right of Ways, Sisseton Agency, 1880-1890 Case #88 – Standing Rock Agency, Restoration of Lands East of the Missouri River (“Executive Addition to Sioux Reserve”) to Public Domain, 1881-1882. Case #92 – Cheyenne River Agency relative to Ponca Agreement, 1882 Case #91 – Crow Dog Case - Murder of Spotted Tail, 1881- 1883
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Case #191, continued – Farming and Grazing Leases, 5045 1896-1907 (Rosebud, Lower Brule, Standing Rock) Dockets 114-119 – The Sioux Tribe vs. the United States, 5090 1951-1982 Dockets 114-119 – The Sioux Tribe vs. the United States, 5091 1974-1976 Dockets 114-119 – The Sioux Tribe vs. the United States, 5092 1951-1976 Dockets 114-119 – The Sioux Tribe vs. the United States, 5093 1975 (Defendant’s Exhibits, index at start of roll) Docket 119 – The Sioux Tribe vs. the United States, 1975 5094 (Defendant’s Exhibits, indexes at start and middle of roll)
Standing Rock Agency: Superintendent’s Annual Narrative and Statistical Reports from Field Jurisdictions of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1911-1935 (M1011).
CONTENTS NARA ROLL # MF LOCATION Springfield School, 1910-1918 144 4465 Standing Rock, 1911-1931 Standing Rock, 1932-1935 145 4466 Tacoma Hospital, 1930-1938 Taholah School, 1915-1922
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