Upper Sioux Indian Reservation
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482 enrolled members | |
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United States ( Minnesota) |
The Upper Sioux Indian Reservation, or Pezihutazizi in
The Upper Sioux Indian Reservation is located in
As of the
History
This reservation was originally established for the
In 1938 the federal government returned 746 acres (3.02 km2) of land to the tribe, who were mostly landless, under the Indian Reorganization Act of the President Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. It also encouraged tribes to revive their self-government.
Termination efforts
A decade later, the federal government began to promote the Indian termination policy, to end recognition of tribes they thought could successfully assimilate to mainstream society. Such termination would allocate their communal lands among individual households and end federal benefits associated with federal recognition. This policy was followed by the US government from the 1940s to the 1960s. The Department of Interior issued a memo dated 19 January 1955 for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) indicating that terminations were being reviewed in proposed legislation for four Indian communities of southwestern Minnesota, including the Lower Sioux Community in Redwood and Scott counties, the New Upper Sioux Community in Yellow Medicine County, the Prairie Island Community in Goodhue County, and about 15 individuals living on restricted tracts in Yellow Medicine County.[5]
Discussions between the BIA and the Indians in the identified tribes had begun in 1953 and continued throughout 1954. Although the Prairie Island and Lower Sioux communities drafted agreements to divide communal lands into plots with individual land ownership, the Upper Sioux strongly opposed tribal lands being divided under fee-simple title.
On 26 January 1955, US Senator
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the reservation and associated off-reservation trust land have a combined area of 2.35 square miles (6.1 km2), of which 2.3 square miles (6.0 km2) is land and 0.05 square miles (0.13 km2) is water.[3]
Demographics
As of the
Notable members
- Waziyatawin (Angela Wilson), Dakota author,professor and activist from Pezihutazizi Otunwe (Yellow Medicine Village)
See also
- Sioux Agency Township, Minnesota
- Lower Sioux Indian Reservation
- Upper Sioux Agency State Park
- Minnesota Indian Affairs Council
Notes
- ^ Community, Upper Sioux. "History of the Upper Sioux Community". www.uppersiouxcommunity-nsn.gov. Retrieved 2016-11-05.
- ^ a b "2020 Decennial Census: Upper Sioux Community and Off-Reservation Trust Land, MN". data.census.gov. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
- ^ a b "2020 Gazetteer Files". census.gov. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 17 July 2022.
- ^ "Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota", Our Story: Minnesota; Accessed 14 September 2013
- ^ "Proposed Terminal Legislation for Indians of Southern Minnesota" (PDF). Department of the Interior. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2014. Retrieved 29 December 2014.
- ISBN 0-8032-8203-6. Retrieved 2014-12-19.
- ^ NCAI Policy Research Center (2021). "Differential Privacy and the 2020 Census: A Guide to the Data and Impacts on American Indian/Alaska Native Tribal Nations" (PDF). Washington DC: National Congress of American Indians. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
References
- Upper Sioux Reservation, Minnesota United States Census Bureau
External links
- Upper Sioux Community tribal government website
- Upper Sioux--Pezihutazizi Kapi, Minnesota Indian Affairs Council