Yankton reservation
The Yankton Reservation is an Indian reservation in the US state of South Dakota . The reservation covers the southeastern part of Charles Mix County and is located directly on the Missouri River . The land area of the reserve is 1,772.604 km².
history
The reserve was established in 1858 under a treaty between the United States government and the Yankton tribe.
After 1887, the Dawes Act divided the reservation into individual parcels ( alottments ). Each tribe member was allocated 80 or 160 acres , depending on the use . The remaining alleged "excess" land ( surplus country ) will buy the US government in 1894 and opened the reserve for non-Indian settlers. Subsequently, 90 percent of the reservation was no longer in Indian ownership. Even today, of the approximately 1,742 square kilometers (430,405 acres) of the reserve, only 145 square kilometers (36,000 acres) are in Native American private or trust property - around eight percent.
After several years of planning and preparation without the involvement of Indian representatives, the US Congress passed the Flood Control Act in late 1944 and put into effect the Pick-Sloan Plan , which envisaged the construction of several dams along the Missouri River - including the Gavins Point Dam , whose reservoir Lewis and Clark Lake flooded large parts of the Yankton reservation and caused massive damage.
In 2011, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the reservation continued to exist within its known boundaries. One of the concerns of the legal proceedings was whether the state of South Dakota and the county had the right to build a dump on reservation against Indian opposition.
population
According to a 2010 census, 6,465 people permanently inhabit the reserve, mostly Yankton - Dakota - Sioux Indians. The Indian reservation administration - Yankton Sioux Tribal Business and Claims Committee - is located in Marty.
The largest community in the reserve area is Wagner.
economy
The reserve area is mainly used for agriculture. Large areas were leased to white farmers by the Bureau of Indian Affairs .
Fort Randall Casino is on the reservation area . Most Native Americans in the United States have the right to allow gambling on their territories. The State of South Dakota argued that this right would be due to him, as the reservation would be dissolved through payments to the tribe in 1892 and would no longer exist.
media
The reservation operates the radio station KDKO 89.5 FM
Web links
- Court proceedings (selection)
Individual evidence
- ^ Yankton Reservation ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved April 30, 2016.
- ^ A b Judith Royster: Of Surplus Lands and Landfills: The Case of the Yankton Sioux. In: 43 SDL Rev. 283, 1998
- ↑ Michael L. Lawson: Dammed Indians: The Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux, 1944-1980 . University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. ISBN 9780806126722 ( online )
- ^ Robert Kelley Schneiders: Flooding The Missouri Valley The Politics Of Dam Site Selection And Design. In: Great Plains Quarterly 17, 1997. Pages 237-491.
- ↑ Peter Capossela: Impacts of Army Corps of Engineers Pick Sloan Program on Indian Tribes. ( Full text online ) In: Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation , Volume 30, No. 1, May 2015
- ↑ Lakota County Times: Yankton Reservation not disestablished , July 6, 2011