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Media related to Cheyenne River Indian Reservation at Wikimedia Commons Official Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe website Archived 2011-08-02 at the Wayback Machine; May 10, 1868 Treaty; William Howard Taft, "Proclamation 879—Cheyenne River and Standing Rock Indian Reservations," August 19, 1909
The Cheyenne River Act of 1908 gave the Secretary of Interior power “to sell and dispose of” 1,600,000 acres (6,500 km 2) of the Cheyenne River Sioux reservation to non-Indians for settlement. The profit of the sale was to go to the United States Treasury as a “credit” for the Indians to have tribal rights on the reservation (465 U.S. 463).
The Cheyenne River (Lakota: Wakpá Wašté; "Good River" [2]), also written Chyone, [3] referring to the Cheyenne people who once lived there, [4] is a tributary of the Missouri River in the U.S. states of Wyoming and South Dakota. It is approximately 295 miles (475 km) long and drains an area of 24,240 square miles (62,800 km 2). [5]
In February, the Oglala Sioux Tribe voted to bar Noem, and earlier this month, the Cheyenne River Sioux also voted to bar her as well. In all, Noem now is legally barred from entering about 10% of ...
All of South Dakota’s nine indigenous tribes have voted to ban Gov. Kristi Noem from their lands.
Pages in category "Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Two more Indigenous Tribes have banned Gov. Kristi Noem from entering their Tribal land adjacent to South Dakota, ... The Standing Rock Sioux, Cheyenne River Sioux, Rosebud Sioux, and Oglala Sioux ...
On January 8, 2008, tribal leaders in the northern Great Plains, Rodney Bordeaux of the 25,000-member Rosebud Sioux Tribe, and Joseph Brings Plenty of the 8,500-member Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, said that Means and the group of his fellow activists would not speak for their members or for any elected Lakota tribal government. While ...