Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe

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The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe is located by Flandreau, near the Big Sioux River in Moody County, South Dakota. It is composed mainly of descendents of Mdewakanton Dakota, and is about 2,500 acres.

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One time I asked him why he didn’t teach us to speak the language. Beverly Wakeman \| Oral History	Theme: Growing Up Topics: Growing Up Dakota Keywords: Dakota Language, WWII, Christianity
There was not any marking to show where this was Beverly Wakeman \| Oral History	Theme: 1862 Topics: Mankato Hangings Keywords: Mankato, Commemoration
I still remember some of them Myron Taylor \| Oral History	Theme: Growing Up Topics: Growing Up Dakota Keywords: Education, Family, Medicine, Military, Language, Christianity
These people, those people, our relatives, were fighting for the same thing. Myron Taylor \| Oral History	Theme: 1862 Topics: Perspectives on 1862, Aftermath of 1862, Family in 1862, Ways of Commemorating Keywords: Discrimination, Education, School, Land, History, Christianity, Family, Mankato Hanging
They made a falsehood out of the whole thing Myron Taylor \| Oral History	Theme: Shared History Topics: Treaties, U.S. Government Keywords: Treaties, U.S. Government
I found the birch trees and I knew that was home William Beane \| Oral History	Theme: Growing Up Topics: Growing Up Dakota, Family in 1862, Language, Perspectives on 1862, Ways of Commemorating Keywords: Family, Language, Commemoration, Traders, Military, Fort Snelling
In the end they got very little money. William Beane \| Oral History	Theme: Shared History Topics: Treaties Keywords: Treaties

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