Sioux Indian Research at AccessGenealogy

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This page is the first in what we hope will provide our reader with all pages available on AccessGenealogy/Native for the Sioux Tribe of Indians, which includes the Mississippi Choctaw also. Many of the pages contain only a brief amount on the tribe, use your browser find on page for a search.

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Free Pages

Sioux Biographies
   Red Cloud
   Sitting Bull
   Esiitahumleah, Teton Chief
   Waapashaw, Sioux Chief
   Wanata, Grand Chief of the Sioux
   Little Crow, Sioux Chief
   Tokakon, Sioux Brave
   Monkaushka, Sioux Chief

Sioux Indian Chiefs and Leaders

Sioux Indian Photos

A Brief History of the Indians of Nebraska
   Santee Sioux

South Dakota Indian Reservations

Petition and Papers Relative to certain Lower Brulé Indians
Lower Brule Indians in South Dakota residing upon the Rosebud Reservation in said State and claiming to belong to the Last-Named Tribe, asking for legislation to permit them to secure allotments upon said Reservation

Sioux Prisoners, Camp Kearney, Davenport Iowa, 1866
List of Sioux Indian Prisoners Confined at Camp Kearney, Davenport, Iowa, January 20, 1866. Imprisoned after the Sioux Uprising in Minnesota, 1862.

Sioux Indian Treaties
Treaty With The Sioux, Sept. 23, 1805
Treaty with the Yankton Sioux, July 19, 1815
Treaty With The Teton, July 19, 1815
Treaty with the Sioux of St. Peter's River, July 19, 1815
Treaty with the Sioux Of The Lakes, July 19, 1815
Treaty with the Sioux, June 1, 1816
Treaty with the Teton, June 22, 1825
Treaty with the Sioune and Oglala Tribes, July 5, 1825
Treaty with the Hunkpapa Band of the Sioux Tribe, July 16, 1825
Treaty with the Sioux, August 19, 1825
Treaty With The Sauk And Foxes, Etc., July 15, 1830  Medawah-Kanton, Wahpacoota, Wahpeton, Sissetong [Sisseton], Yanckton [Yancton] and Santie Bands
Treaty With The Sioux, September 10, 1836
Treaty with the Sioux, November 30, 1836
Treaty with the Sioux, September 29, 1837
Treaty with the Yankton Sioux, October 21, 1837
Treaty of Fort Laramie with Sioux, September 17, 1851
Treaty With The Sioux—Sisseton And Wahpeton Bands, July 23, 1851
Treaty With The Sioux, Mdewakanton And Wahpakoota Bands, August 5, 1851
Treaty With The Sioux, June 19, 1858  - Mendawakanton and Wahpahoota Bands
Treaty With The Sioux, June 19, 1858  - Sisseeton and Wahpaton Bands
Treaty With The Yankton Sioux, April 19, 1858
Treaty With The Blackfeet Sioux, October 19, 1865
Treaty with the Sioux-Miniconjou Band October 10, 1865
Treaty with the Sioux-Lower Brulé Band, October 14, 1865
Treaty With The Sioux, Two-Kettle Band, October 19, 1865
Treaty With The Sioux, Sans Arcs Band, October 20, 1865
Treaty With The Sioux, Hunkpapa Band, October 20, 1865 (Also Onkpahpah)
Treaty With The Sioux, October 20, Yanktonai Band, 1865
Treaty With The Sioux, October 28, Upper Yanktonai Band, 1865
Treaty With The Sioux, Oglala Band, October 28, 1865 (Also Ogallala; O'Galla)
Treaty with the Sioux-Sisseton and Wahpeton Bands, February 19, 1867
Treaty With The Sioux Burlé, Ogalala, Miniconjou, Yanktonai, Hunkpapa, Blackfeet, Cuthead, Two Kettle, Sans Arcs, Santee and Arapaho, April 29, 1868
Agreement With The Sisseton And Wahpeton Bands Of Sioux Indians, September 20, 1872
Amended Agreement With Certain Sioux Indians, May 2, 1873
Agreement With The Sioux Of Various Tribes, October 17, 1882-January 3, 1883

Mailing Lists, Queries and Message Boards

Indian Mailing Lists
A great place to start your research.  There are many lists specific to a tribe and there is one for each state and Canada. You will meet people who have been searching for years, know all the tricks and rocks to look under, places they hid, and how to make your search worthwhile. If you are new to Indian Genealogy, I recommend NA-NEWBIES, you will find others like yourself who are just starting on the search of a lifetime.
  NA-Sioux

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Census, Rolls and Land Patents

US Indian Census Schedules 1885-1940

1889 Mdewakanton Sioux Census

1910 Sioux Census - New Jersey

Nebraska Sioux Land Patents
Nebraska, Santee Sioux Land Patents
North Dakota Devils Lake Sioux Land Patents
North Dakota Standing Rock Sioux Land Patents: A-B
North Dakota Standing Rock Sioux Land Patents: B-C
North Dakota Standing Rock Sioux Land Patents: C

Books

Story of the Sioux Indians
This is quoted, not from the chronicles of Swiss Family Robinson, but from a much nearer source, the journal of the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804-6; and it sums up the impression left by the first meeting of the party with the Teton Sioux, one of the three great branches of that numerous tribe

The Siouan Indians
The Indians of the Siouan stock occupied the central portion of the continent. They were preeminently plains Indians, ranging from Lake Michigan to the Rocky mountains, and from the Arkansas to the Saskatchewan

Dahcotah, Or Life and Legends of the Sioux around Fort Snelling, by Mary H. Eastman
The materials for the following pages were gathered during a residence of seven years in the immediate neighborhood nay in the very midst of the once powerful but now nearly extinct tribe of Sioux or Dahcotah Indians.

A Century of Dishonor
The great difficulty with the Indian problem is not with the Indian, but with the Government and people of the United States. Instead of a liberal and far-sighted policy looking to the education and civilization and possible citizenship of the Indian tribes, we have suffered these people to remain as savages, for whose future we have had no adequate care, and to the consideration of whose present state the Government has only been moved when pressed by some present danger.
   Sioux Indian Tribe

Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, by Frederick W. Hodge
During the early exploration and settlement of North America, a multitude of Indian tribes were encountered, having diverse customs and languages. Lack of knowledge of the aborigines and of their languages led to many curious errors on the part of the early explorers and settlers

Indian Tribes of North America, by John R. Swanton
From the date of its first appearance in 1891 the Powell map of "Linguistic Families of American Indians North of Mexico" has proved of the widest utility. It has been reissued several times and copied into numerous publications. There has, however, been almost equal need of a map giving the location of the tribes under the several families.
   Minnesota Indian Tribes

Indian Races of North and South America, by Charles DeWolf Brownell
An Account of the Principal Aboriginal Races; A Description of their National Customs, Mythology, and Religious Ceremonies; The History of their most Powerful Tribes, and of their Most Celebrated Chiefs and Warriors; Their Intercourse and Wars with the European Settlers.
   Sioux or Dahocota and other Tribes of the same Race

The Sioux Massacre
The massacre of the whites in Minnesota by the Sioux Indians, in August, 1862, is one of the bloodiest that has ever occurred in the history of the Indian races in North America.

Indian Linguistic Families of America North of Mexico, by John Wesley Powell
The terms “family” and “stock” are here applied interchangeably to a group of languages that are supposed to be cognate.
   Siouan Family

Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi, by David Bushnell
David Bushnell, provides a vivid picture of the traditional homes, hunting camps, and travels of our ancestors. Even without the photos and drawings included here, he paints a picture of there life with his words.
   Siouan Tribes

North American Indians of the Plains, Clark Wissler
This little book is not merely a guide to museum collections from the Plains Indians, but a summary of the facts and interpretations making up the anthropology of those Indians.

Sign Language Among North American Indians
As the few publications on the general subject, possessing more than historic interest, are meager in details and vague in expression, original investigation has been necessary.

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