Crow Creek Sioux Tribe
| Crow Creek Indian Reservation | ||
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| Reservation | ||
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 Location of Crow Creek Indian Reservation, South Dakota |
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| Country | United States | |
| State | South Dakota | |
| Counties | Buffalo / Hughes / Hyde | |
| Government | ||
| • Governing body | Crow Creek Sioux Tribal Council | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 196.235 sq mi (508.248 km2) | |
| Population (2004) | ||
| • Total | 1,230 | |
| Time zone | CST (UTC-6) | |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) | |
| Website | South Dakota Tribal Government Relations: Crow Creek Sioux Tribe | |
The Crow Creek Indian Reservation (Lakota: 'Kȟaŋğí Wakpá Oyáŋke') is located in parts of Buffalo, Hughes, and Hyde counties on the east bank of the Missouri River in central South Dakota in the United States. It has a land area of 421.658 square miles (1,092.09 km2) and a 2000 census population of 2,225 persons. The major town and capital of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe is Fort Thompson.
The town is located adjacent to the Big Bend Dam, which holds back Big Bend Reservoir (also known as Lake Sharpe), one of the four Missouri Mainstem reservoirs constructed by the US Army Corps of Engineers in the Pick-Sloan Plan. Authorized in 1944 for flood control and hydropower, the dam and lake were completed in the 1960s.
The people of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe are mostly descendants of the Mdewakanton Dakota Tribe of south and central Minnesota, who settled on the reservation after escape or exile from Minnesota following the Dakota War of 1862 in Minnesota. Some Yankton and lower Yanktonai Dakota also reside on the reservation. Although considered to be a part of the Great Sioux Reservation by some writers, the Crow Creek Reservation, established in 1862, has always been separate.
The reservation originally included bottom lands along the Missouri, which had been farmed previously by Mandan and Arikara, and others prior to these tribes. The peoples were decimated in smallpox and other epidemics in the 18th century. Today several former Mandan and Arikara villages are archaeological sites located within the Crow Creek Reservation.
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