Sioux Indian Research

Siouan Family. The most populous linguistic family North of Mexico, next to the Algonquian. The name is taken from a ‘term applied to the largest and best known tribal group or confederacy belonging to the family, the Sioux or Dakota, which, in turn, is an abbreviation of Nadowessioux, a French corruption of Nadowe-is-iw, the appellation given them by the Chippewa. It signifies ‘snake,’ ‘adder,’ and, by metaphor, ‘enemy.’

Sioux Indian 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

Bureau of Indian Affairs

A Guide to Tracing your Indian Ancestry(PDF)
Tribal Leaders Directory
Recognized Indian Entities, 10/2010 Update (PDF)

Cemeteries

Census

Federal Recognized Tribes

Minnesota Sioux Tribes
- Lower Sioux Mdewakanton Tribes, 39527 Res. Highway 1 or P.O. Box 308, Morton, MN 56270 – History
- Prairie Island Indian Community, 5636 Sturgeon Lake Road, Welch, Minnesota 55089 –
- Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux, 2330 Sioux Trail N.W., Prior Lake, MN 55372 – About Us
- Upper Sioux, P.O. Box 147, 5722 Travers Lane, Granite Falls, MN – History
Nebraska Sioux Tribes
- Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska, 425 Frazier Ave. N. Suite 2, Niobrara, Nebraska 68760
North Dakota Tribes
- Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, Lake Traverse Reservation, ND
- Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, P.O. Box D, Fort Yates, ND 59538 – History (in North and South Dakota)
South Dakota Tribes
- Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, P.O. Box 590, Eagle Butte, SD 57625 – History
- Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, P.O. Box 50, Ft. Thompson, SD 57339 – Constitution
- Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe, P.O. Box 283, Flandreau SD 57028 – History – Pipemaking
- Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, P.O. Box 187, Lower Brule, SD 57548 –
- Oglala Lakota Nation, (Oglala Sioux) Pine Ridge SD 57770 – History
- Rosebud Sioux Tribe, P.O. Box 430, Rosebud, SD 57570 – Culture
- Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, P.O. Box 509, Agency Village, SD 57262 – (in North and South Dakota)
- Yankton Sioux Tribe, P.O. Box 1153, Wagner, SD 57380

Genealogy Help Pages

History

Home Page Links

American-Tribes Great photos and information on the Plains Indians

Land, Land Allotments and Maps

Language

Legends

Sioux Legends and Traditional Stories (hosted at Native Languages of the Americas)
Index of Sioux Legends (hosted at Legend.com)
Sioux Myths and Legends (hosted at Legends of America)
Sioux Legends in Pictures (hosted at Minnesota History Magazine)

Mailing Lists

Sioux-Surnames – For anyone who is researching the surnames of the Sioux Indians.
NA-NEWBIES – A mailing list for anyone new to Native American Research, all Tribes and Nations.
NATIVEAMERICAN-BURIALGROUNDS – Discussing and sharing of information regarding remaining and lost Native American burial grounds in the United States
NATIVEAMERICAN-CHIEFS – A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in the chiefs of the Native American tribes/nations in the United States.
INDIAN TRIBES-LOCATION, One for each state. Ask questions to find the location of your ancestors
INDIAN CEMETERIES, A place to share the location or transcriptions of Indian Cemeteries

Military

Sioux Prisoners, Camp Kearney, Davenport Iowa, 1866. List of Sioux Indian Prisoners Confined at Camp Kearney, Davenport, Iowa, January 20, 1866.

Schools

Treaties

Indian Treaties, Acts and Agreements
Signers of Native American Treaties, Indian, Military and Guests
Indian Affairs, Laws & Treaties, Vol. 2
As the United States expanded westward from the original thirteen colonies, settlers often confronted the existing owners of the land. As a result the federal government often negotiated treaties with these Native Americans. This collection of official treaties was compiled by the United States and originally printed in 1904. (Subscribers Only) Free Trial – Ancestry.com US Deluxe Membership

Suggested Reading

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
At the time of Captain Carver’s travels among the North American Indians there were twelve known bands of these “Nadouwessies.” They entertained the captain most hospitably for seven months during the winter of 1766-‘7; adopted him as one of their chiefs; and when the time came for him to depart, three hundred of them accompanied him for a distance on his journey, and took leave with expressions of friendship for him, and good-will toward the Great Father, the English king, of whom he had told them.
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.

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