LOWER SIOUX IN MINNESOTA

THE TRIBE IS FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED INDIAN TRIBE IN SOUTH CAROLINA AND MINNESOTA. ABOUT 45 FAMILIES ARE LIVE ON 1743 ACRES. A TOTAL OF 982 RESIDE ABOUT 10 MILES FROM THE SERVICE AREA.

LOWER SIOUX WAS THE NAME GIVEN TO OUR BAND AFTER TREATIES IN THE LOWEER SIOUXBECAME PART OF MIDEWAKANTON BAND OF DAKOTA. DAKOTAS TRANSLATES TO FRIEND. THEIR TRADITIONAL HOME WAS (CANSA-YAPI. OR 'WHERE THEY MARKED THE TREES RED). THEY HAVE PRIDE IN THEIR CULTURAL HISTORY.

THEIR HISTORY IS IN MINNESOTA OR A PLACE WHERE WATER REFLECTS THE SKY. THE DAKOTA HAVE TRAINED HERE SINCE PREHISTORIC TIMES. PRIOR TO 1862 THE MINNESOTA DAKOTA KNOWN BY THE FREWNCH TERM "SIOUX" CONSISTED OF FOUR BAND WHO LIVED ALONG THE MINNESOTA RIVER.

IN 1862 THEY FOUGHT A WAR AGAINST THE US FOR NOT FUFILLING TREATIES, FOR NOT PROVIDING MONIES FOR LANDS, HEALTH CARE AND FOOD. THE U.S. KILLED SO MANY SIOUX AND NULLIFIED THE TREATIES AND REMOVED ALL DAKOTAS FROM MINNISOTA. IN 1863 THE U.S. GAVE UP TO 80 ACRES TO EACH EACH LOYALIST INDIAN WHO KEPT UP THE LAND. IN 2006 THEY CREATED A TRIBAL HISTORICAL PRESERVATION OFFICE TO PROTECT AND PRESERVE CULTURAL RESOURCES. THEY STILL HAVE LOOTING OF SOME SITES.

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