The Lower Sioux Indian Community is a federally recognized Indian tribe located in south central Minnesota in Redwood County, approximately two miles south of Morton. While “Lower Sioux” was the name given to the band and their homeland after treaties with the United States in 1851, members of the Lower Sioux Indian Community are part of the Mdewakanton Band of Dakota. The Dakota, which translates closely to “friend” or “ally” in the Dakota language, referred to the traditional Minnesota River Valley homeland as Cansa’yapi (where they marked the trees red).
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