Standing Rock Agency (See Also Grand River Agency)
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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. Collections 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 Standing Rock Agency - 1 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 Standing Rock Agency - 2 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. Standing Rock Agency - 3 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 Standing Rock Agency - 4 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