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Titles
Ratified Indian Treaty 259: Sioux (Mdewakanton and Wahpahkoota) - Mendota, Minnesota Territory, August 5, 1851
Other Titles
RIT #259
RIT 259
Ratified Indian Treaty #259
National Archives Identifier
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/176246554
Level of description
File Unit
Creation date
Aug. 5, 1851
Contains
Small Cover Sheet: "Original. 1851. Treaty with the Sioux – Med-ay-wakan-toan & Wah-pay-koo-tay Bands. Dated August 5, 1851. Ratified February 24, 1853."
Treaty Between the United States and the Mdewakanton and Wahpahkoota Bands of the Dakota or Sioux Indians Signed at Mendota, Minnesota Territory
Senate's Advice and Consent to Treaty Ratification, with Amendments
Assent of the Mdewakanton and Wahpahkoota Bands of the Sioux Indians to Treaty Amendments
Instrument of Ratification Signed by President Millard Fillmore and Secretary of State Edward Everett
Named Native nations
Sioux
Present-day Nations
Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River Reservation, Wyoming
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River Reservation, South Dakota
Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes, Oklahoma
Crow Creek Sioux Tribe of the Crow Creek Reservation, South Dakota
Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota
Lower Brule Sioux Tribe of the Lower Brule Reservation, South Dakota
Lower Sioux Indian Community in the State of Minnesota
Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
Prairie Island Indian Community in the State of Minnesota
Rosebud Sioux Tribe of the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota
Santee Sioux Nation, Nebraska
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota
Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota
Spirit Lake Tribe, North Dakota
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota
Upper Sioux Community, Minnesota
Yankton Sioux Tribe of South Dakota
Cessions with shared date(s)
289
414
440
Signatory
United States of America