Native American Genealogy

"A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass" -- Lakota (Teton) saying

About the Native Americans in SD-- in progress!

• Bureau of Indian Affairs Records
  • Cheyenne River Agency
  • Crow Creek and Lower Brule Reservations
  • Pine Ridge Reservation
    • List of Oneida Indians listed on the rolls of the Pine Ridge Agency
    
    
  • Rosebud Reservation
    • Marriage Licenses 1906-1909, 1915, Alphabetical by Grooms (11 Kb)
    • Marriage Licenses 1906-1909, 1915, Alphabetical by Brides (11 Kb)
      Work in progress -- when completed, 1906 - 1917 --- 1910 - 1914 records missing
    • Index to the Undated Family Records on Roll 32 (circa 1901)(29 Kb)
  • Sisseton Agency Records
  • Standing Rock Agency
  • Yankton and Santee Agency Records

• South Dakota WPA Cemetery Records - collected during the 1940's. Not strictly Native American, but a significant number of records are about Native Americans!
  • Pine Ridge Reservation
    • Washabaugh County
    • Washington County
  • Yankton Reservation
    • Charles Mix County

• South Dakota Land Records
  • Charles Mix County Search engine for index of ALL Chas. Mix Landowners (1906), including many members of the Yankton tribe. View the Index (670 Kb -- a very large file!!)

• The Catholic Archives at Marquette University has the Catholic Mission records for the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations.

• Guide to the Great Sioux Nation - SD Dept. of Tourism's web pages - very touristy, but has information about the different tribes and reservations, including names and addresses of tribal councils.

• Lakota Sioux web pages - also contains addresses for the tribal offices.

• South Dakota Oral History Center Contains oral histories of almost 1500 Native Americans - most collected between 1967 and 1973.

• Lakota Link --- Cheyenne River Lakota web page

• Learn to speak Lakota!

• Source for Native American Languages - Language Courses and Dictionaries

• Lakota Wowapi Oti Kin -- Lakota Information Home Page

• List of Native American Links maintained by Lisa Mitten at the University of Pittsburgh

• Red Cloud School, Pine Ridge, SD

• Sisseton-Wahpeton Web Pages

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