Yankton Sioux 8th band

05/20/2025

Go quietly into the night. Facebook is threatening to delete this page. I no longer have the mental capacity to defend it, so my friends and relatives, please remember the Yankton Sioux Tribe has an Eight-Band sons of white men. At one time, there was a need because half breeds did not fit into either world. Happy trails to you. Good bye

03/04/2025

Saswe signed as “E-ha-we-cha-sha” (Hinhan Wicasa, “Owl man”) the Yankton Treaty. When visiting Washington in 1867 with Struck-by-the-Ree, he received government recognition as “Chief of the Yankton half-breed band”. About 1858 this band had been organized by agency leaders and was called the wasicu cinca (“white man’s sons” or “half-breed band”) or “8th band” of the Yanktons.

09/26/2022

I went to the Hiawatha Golf Club in Canton, South Dakota, between holes 4 and 5 is a small Native American Cemetery. Fools go where angels fear to tread. I went there to read the names of our 112 relatives who are buried beneath one headstone. I tried to prepare myself by bringing gifts, sage, and prayers in memory of their life, and because I didn't want to be disrespectful. After a moment of silence, we were preparing to leave when a golfer approached walk into the Cemetery picked up his ball, dropped it outside the fenced-off area, and carried on. "Guess that went a little north," he said. A perilous place to pray. To know more search Hiawatha Insane Asylum: A Haunting Legacy not for the weak of heart! If you play there remember those are the graves of our ancestors an Indian burial ground, Jeremiah Johnson 1972.

02/03/2022

01/30/2022

My great-grandfather had four wives but he was only allowed one. I know they care for each other. because I am told that some offered a finger when he died. Plural Wives: The U.S. government dismantled the institution once the Army had confined the Indians on reservations. Grandma never got the notice

08/30/2021

My friends and relatives, with all the hardships, that Indian people have to endure it’s a wonder that we have relatives at all. Blood quantum is just another way to end us and end treaty agreements. My children and grandchildren have the blood of our ancestors that should be enough. Let no man define you claim your Indian heritage and descendency. Walk the red road for you too are related with great respect. Until we are all one people again. ALL my relatives. Mitakuye Oyasin

07/17/2021

The term “Oceti Ŝakowiŋ,” translated as “the Seven Council Fires,” refers to the historic alliance of seven major divisions of the Native American groups known variously as the Sioux, the Great Sioux Nation, or Oceti Ŝakowiŋ, the Seven Council Fires. These groups can be organized as
Santee or Eastern Dakota:
Mdewakaŋtoŋwaŋ (Mdewakanton)
Wahpekhute (Wahpekute)
Wahpetoŋwaŋ (Wahpeton)
Sisitoŋwaŋ (Sisseton)
Western Dakota or Nakota:
Ihaŋktoŋwaŋ (Yankton)
Ihaŋktoŋwaŋna (Yanktonai)
Lakota:
Titoŋwaŋ (Teton)
Each group is a distinct but similar culture. Today, Dakota, Lakota and Nakota tribal governments and communities are located in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, and Montana in the United States, and Manitoba and Saskatchewan in Canada.

05/05/2021

In the United States, freedom of religion is a constitutionally protected right provided in the First Amendment's religion clauses. In 1978 Congress passed the American Indian Religious Freedom Act. Prior to that Act The Department of Interior’s 1883 Code of Indian Offenses—de facto laws that applied only to American Indians—punished Indian dances and feasts by imprisonment or withholding food (treaty rations) for up to 30 days. Any medicine man convicted of encouraging others to follow traditional practices was to be confined in the agency prison for not less than 10 days or until he could provide evidence that he had abandoned his beliefs. I think this is part of the reason Saswe, a.k.a. François Deloria, a powerful Yankton medicine man and chief of the "Half-Breed band'' accepted the Christian religion. Father and son both had major roles in two religions: Rev. Philip Joseph Deloria, an Episcopal priest, a.k.a. Tipi Sapa (Black Lodge), a leader of the Yankton/Nakota band of the Sioux Nation.Tipi Sapa is featured as one of the 98 Saints of the Ages at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., as the first Dakota Christian minister to his own people. Father and son I wonder what they talk about? I think Vine Deloria, Jr., a scholar, writer, author of Custer Died for Our Sins. Gave us a hint. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-indian/2018/11/30/native-perspectives-american-indian-religious-freedom-act/?fbclid=IwAR2spgjeNFVWz6yh573KZTHjJn4RqHIqLDGQHYJU9EOPOdurgx2ePGgKhnY

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” Forty years ago, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act finally finally extended that right to the country's Native citizens. He...

04/25/2021

Pipestone was once part of the Yankton Sioux Nation.These grounds are sacred to many people because the pipestone quarried here is carved into pipes used for prayer. Many believe that the pipe's smoke carries one's prayer to the Great Spirit. The Yankton treaty of 1858 gave it away for peace and appeasement to the United States. On July 4, 1863, in response to raids by Dakota in southern Minnesota, the state’s Adjutant-General, Oscar Malmros, issued a general order for the establishment of a mounted corps of “volunteer scouts” to patrol from Sauk Centre to the northern edge of Sibley County. The scouts provided their own arms, equipment, and provisions, were each paid two dollars a day, and were offered an additional $25 for Dakota scalps. A reward of $75 a scalp was offered to people not in military service; that amount was raised to $200 on September 22. Period newspapers described the taking of many scalps. The federal government establishes the Courts of Indian Offenses to prosecute Indians who participate in traditional ceremonies such as the Sun Dance. The U.S. seeks to replace these ancient spiritual practices with Christianity. The court is one of various methods that the U.S. employs to try to restrict the cultural identity of American Indian tribes. Many political, cultural, and spiritual leaders of that time were imprisoned.. It became impossible to pray at Pipestone

04/10/2021

Listed here are the name of the chiefs that signed the 1858 Yankton treaty. The Yankton treaty of 1858 gave away our land for peace and appeasement to the United States. Returning from Washington, Padaniapapi (Struck-by-The-Ree) told his people, "The white men are coming in like maggots. It is useless to resist them. They are many more than we are. We could not hope to stop them. Many of our brave warriors would be killed, our women and children left in sorrow, and still we would not stop them. We must accept it, get the best terms we can get and try to adopt their ways."

03/02/2021

My tribe built a casino and named it after an Indian prison. For generations, it has remained. Time for a change. Fort Randall has faded into the distant memory for most people but we are clinging on to it, even to honor it, by naming our Casino and Pow Wow after it. I suggest that we rename the Casino and Pow Wow. From a name associated with historical trauma to a name, we can all be proud of Anything, but Fort Randall Casino and Pow Wow. Fort Randall was set up to protect the white settlers crossing our land and to keep the Indians from moving off the reservation. In reality, they were prison guards. Sent there to beat the Indians into submission. I realize that there are more pressing issues than a name change and that Fort Randall Casino is a business, but if not now when? Sitting Bull and His Family at Fort Randall. Mounted on his horse is Captain Benton and his wife is next to Sitting Bull.

12/02/2020