Great Sioux Reservation
The Great Sioux Reservation was the original area encompassing what are today the various Indian reservations in South Dakota and Nebraska.
The reservation was established in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, and includes all of modern western South Dakota (commonly known as "West River" South Dakota) and modern Boyd County, Nebraska. This area was established by the United States as a reservation for the Teton Sioux, also known as the Lakota: the seven western bands of the "Seven Council Fires" (the Great Sioux Nation).
Read more about Great Sioux Reservation: Reservation, General Allotment Act, Dawes Allotment Act
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“Music is so much a part of their daily lives that if an Indian visits another reservation one of the first questions asked on his return is: “What new songs did you learn?””
—Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)