Standing Rock-Cheyenne River Reservation

One of several Reservations in the State of South Dakota, the Cheyenne River-Standing Rock Indian Reservation is one of the largest Indian Reservations in the United States. However, a strange past surrounds this large Reservation the whites forced ogima Sitting Bull to live on, after he surrendered to the whites in 1881. It was opened up to white settlement after the illicit Dawes Act did its ugly work. It does have an Arikara, Assiniboine (the Assiniboine are a mixture of Anishinabe and Dakota), Hidatsa (the Hidatsa are the Crow and are also known as the Gros Ventre which means they are partly Anishinabe) and Mandan population, along with an Anishinabe and Dakota population also. All Dakota peoples living on the Cheyenne River-Standing Rock Reservation, were once allied (subjugated) by the military of the Algonquin's or Anishinabek who are also known as the Chippewa's. That occurred during the early and mid 1700s.

Cheyenne River-Standing Rock Reservation has a total size of 7,839 sq. mi. What you don't know is whites own most of the Cheyenne River-Standing Rock Reservation. After the allotment process was utilized it stole much of the once large Reservation. Only the Cheyenne River District still owns most of the Reservation left them after the allotment process. On the Standing Rock Reservation they lost most of their Reservation after the allotment process. A map below shows the original Cheyenne River-Standing Rock Reservation before the allotment process. It is the first map below.

You'll notice two strange out of place areas on the map where the Cheyenne River-Standing Rock Reservation is. One is the obvious name of "Cheyenne Agency Indian Res" which means the Reservation is an Anishinabe Reservation and a cover-up is in place. The other is the obvious boundary which is very much unlike that on other maps. The "Cheyenne Agency Indian Res" was larger then. When the allotment process commenced, all surplus lands on the Reservation were sold to the whites. You will see what the present day Cheyenne River-Standing Rock Reservation looks like on the second map below. As mentioned, the "Cheyenne Agency Indian Res" lost very little of their Reservation after the allotment process and surplus land was stolen by the whites. In fact, you might want to consider the "Cheyenne Agency Indian Reservation" of South Dakota, to be closed.

It is on the third map below. Carefully look over the 2nd and 3rd maps below to understand. Most of the Standing Rock Reservation was lost after the allotments and surplus land was stolen. Only about 1/3 of the old Standing Rock Reservation remains. And most of the remaining land is checkerboarded with white owned land which is very different from the Cheyenne Agency Reservation where one large area covers probably near 2,000 sq. mi. That is not including the Chippewa Reservation set aside in the Iron Lighning and Thunder Butte region. You will learn more about that as you read on. Click on this link to see a map of the current Standing Rock Reservation. Of course, it is after the allotments and surplus land was stolen. The white areas on the map is where the surplus land and land allotments were lost. You will notice it is in terrible shape.

You can click here to learn that in fact this Reservation is an Anishinabe Reservation. It is the May 10, 1868 treaty. The Arapaho and Cheyenne are really the Anishinabek who forced their way to the plains of Canada and the United States, around 1700. The Cheyenne River Reservation was known as the "Cheyenne Agency Indian Reservation" during its early years. That does tell you the Cheyenne River Reservation is an Anishinabe Reservation. A map of South Dakota from 1891 clearly shows the name of "Cheyenne Agency Indian Res." It is below. You'll notice that then, 1891, the "Cheyenne Agency Indian Reservation" was much larger. It probably covered well over 5,000 sq. mi. The northern border was the Grand River.

In 1887, the United States created the filthy Dawes Act, which was created to open up Indian Reservations to white settlement. Individual Indians were to be alloted land and have the right to sell that Cheyenne Agency-Standing Rock Reservation land to non Indians after a certain period of time. All surplus Cheyenne Agency-Standing Rock Reservation land would be sold to the white invaders. It took two decades before the United States commenced their dirty work. However, in 1904 the United States supposedly ratified the infamous ten cent an acre treaty (it was really the 1887 Sweet Grass Hills Treaty) and it had an immediate confounded impact. Instead of following the promises the whites made, the whites instead commenced to stealing Reservation land. First instances occurred on the Flathead and Crow Reservations in 1904, in which Reservation land was stolen by the whites.

The 1906 Ute Exodus

Anishinabe people must be very cautious when dealing with the fabricated 1906 Ute Exodus, from Utah to South Dakota. Read the Seven Fires Prophecy. What really occurred in 1906 was either of several scenarios. One is the recorded Ute Exodus off the Uintah-Ouray Reservation to go to South Dakota. And there was an Indian Exodus off the Uintah-Ouray Reservation but it mainly went towards the west. Another is an Indian Exodus off the Cheyenne Agency-Standing Rock Reservation towards the west, as told to do in the Seven Fires Prophecy. Then the events which occurred in Montana between 1906-1909, must be carefully researched because an event occurred there which greatly alarmed the government of the United States, and is related to the 1906 Ute Exodus.

Indian Agent Frank Churchill requested from the government of the United States that all of Valley County, Montana be withdrawn from white settlement. That occurred in 1908. He claimed the request was to determine how many Indian allotments were to be handed out and other needs. His request was granted. It was granted to prevent an Anishinabe uprising. Allotments being handed out had nothing to do with Valley County, Montana being withdrawn from white settlement. The real Ute Exodus occurred in Montana. In 1904, after the United States ratified the infamous ten cent an acre treaty, they commenced to eradicating the Chippewa Reservations they set aside for the Chippewa's after the ten cent an acre treaty was signed in 1891.

Those Chippewa Reservations included the Fort Buford Chippewa Reservation (the real Turtle Mountain Chippewa Reservation of Montana and North Dakota), Fort Keogh Chippewa Reservation, Fort Maginnis Chippewa Reservation, Fort Meade Chippewa Reservation of South Dakota, Fort Peck Chippewa Reservation, Fort Yellowstone Chippewa Reservation, the northern part of the Crow-Northern Cheyenne Reservation which occurred in 1904, and the 10 to 16 million acre Chippewa Reservation the United States set aside for the Chippewa's in northern Montana, after the 21.5 million acre Blackfeet Reservation was eradicated. The 10 to 16 million acre Chippewa Reservation was not set aside before 1887.

In 1904, the United States not only ratified the ten cent an acre treaty, they commenced to creating allotment acts including the Flathead Reservation Allotment Act of 1904, Rosebud Reservation Allotment Acts of 1904, 1907, 1910 which stole the entire Rosebud Reservation, Blackfeet Reservation Allotment Act of 1907, Cheyenne Agency-Standing Rock Reservation Allotment Act of 1908, and Fort Peck Reservation Allotment Act of 1908, and so on. Anishinabe leaders took action. Many become enraged. Thus, the United States sent Frank Churchill to Montana to negotiate with ogima Rocky Boy about the predicament. An Anishinabe Exodus off the Cheyenne Agency-Standing Rock Reservation, and also the Pine Ridge-Rosebud Reservation, and most western Reservations in the western United States, did occur. We will focus our attention on the Ute Exodus because it is the only one i know of that definitely involves South Dakota.

After the Anishinabe people of most Reservations in the western United States, learned about the ratification of the 1904 infamous ten cent an acre treaty and that the whites were conspiring to open up Reservations to white settlement, many Anishinabe leaders took action. They called for a great council at some northern (possibly the Northern Cheyenne Reservation) Reservation. In 1906, a large group of Utes from Utah, supposedly commenced an exodus off their Uintah-Ouray Reservation. White historians claim they went towards the east to Wyoming. They also claim they planned to move to the Cheyenne Agency Reservation. Among them were some 150 soldiers which means they numbered close to 1,000. Read between the lines. I assume a few of the Chippewa's and Utes from the Uintah-Ouray Reservation fled eastwards. One of the main Anishinabe leaders, if not the main Anishinabe leader, was ogima Yellowstone. Read between the lines. Ogima Yellowstone represented the Chippewa's who were hiding out in the Yellowstone National Park Region.

White soldiers from Fort Keogh, Montana, Fort Robinson, Nebraska, Fort Meade, South Dakota, and a Wyoming Fort caught the Utes about 40 miles north of Gillette, Wyoming. They were camped between the Powder River and Tongue River, just south of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. They were obviously leaving the Northern Cheyenne Reservation area. Not all of the Anishinabek were caught. Many continued the exodus to the south towards South Dakota but most fled towards the north where the Fort Peck Reservation is.

This group of 100s of Indians, were really Anishinabek who fled from their Reservations in Montana, especially eastern Montana. They be the Crow Reservation, Fort Buford Chippewa Reservation, Fort Keogh Chippewa Reservation, Fort Maginnis Chippewa Reservation, Fort Peck Chippewa Reservation, Fort Shaw Chippewa Reservation, Fort Yellowstone Chippewa Reservation, and the 10 to 16 million acre Chippewa Reservation of northern Montana. They may have been attempting to go to Mexico. Many of the Anishinabe ogimak (leaders) were in their 60s and 70s at the time, and could well remember the days when they fought in wars as far south as northern Mexico.

They commenced the exodus off the Reservations probably during the summer of 1906, and traveled eastwards and southwards to northeastern Wyoming. As mentioned, just north of Gillette, Wyoming where the whites soldiers caught them on October 22, 1906. The white soldiers forced the close to 1,000 Anishinabek to South Dakota (Fort Meade) where they stayed until an agreement was reached between these Anishinabek and the United States. The agreement provided that the Anishinabek would be granted a new Reservation in the Cheyenne Agency Reservation. It covers 4 townships or 92,160 acres or 144 sq. mi. It might be a bit larger as you will see in the second map below. In South Dakota, they merged with the Anishinabe people native there which increased their numbers. They settled in the northwestern part of the Cheyenne Agency Reservation. Many probably settled on the Pine Ridge-Rosebud Reservation as well. In fact, they may have saved the Rosebud Reservation from being eradicated.

Once Anishinabe ogimak were certain the United States would keep their promise they traveled to South Dakota. The Rosebud Reservation may have been eradicated after the 1907 Allotment Act. On important and reliable United States maps of South Dakota, the Rosebud Reservation does not show up after 1907. In 1911, a map shows an entirely different Rosebud Reservation which covers all of Mellette County and Todd County. That is the present day Rosebud Reservation. You can see it on the third map below.

The Children Issue and Nationality

By June 11, 1907, the Anishinabek had settled on their new closed Reservation near the Moreau River and Thunder Butte Creek region of the Cheyenne Reservation of South Dakota. That be northern Ziebach County. Now to another conspiracy which was created to rob these Anishinabe people of their nationality. Supposedly after the Anishinabek settled down to live on their new closed Reservation, trouble started between them and the United States. It was supposedly over Anishinabe children going to school and to farm the land. What set off this Anishinabe Exodus was the whites opening up their Reservations to white settlement and forcing Anishinabe children to attend school where they were forced to lose their nationality. We can read between the lines and know that information is a direct lie. The United States did not want further trouble and left these Anishinabe people alone, excepting the children issue. That is what led to the near war in 1907 on the Cheyenne Reservation of South Dakota.

The children issue (it was about going to white operated schools) was an issue Anishinabe ogimak were determined to fight. They knew the whites would force the Anishinabe children to stop speaking in their own language and rob them of their Anishinabe Nationality. They told the whites their children would die (lose their nationality) if they were forced to go to the white operated schools. About the main reason for the Anishinabe Exodus, was the whites forcing Anishinabe children to lose their Anishinabe Nationality. The main issue was the loss of Reservations. In late October of 1907, many of the Dakotas started to request from the whites that their children be allowed to go to other schools where no Anishinabe children attended. They were expecting a possible war between the Anishinabe people and the United States and feared for their lives. On October 21, 1907, ogima Red Cap and two other Anishinabe ogimak, went to Walter Bakers home and asked him why were 15 policemen at their village (Thunder Butte).

After Baker told them they were sent there to build a barn (it was really a school), the Anishinabe ogimak disagreed and replied that they were there to force their children to attend school. They threatened Baker with talk of stopping the policemen from forcing their children to attend school. Many of the Dakotas around the Iron Lightning and Thunder Butte region, commenced to leaving for safer locations. Colonel Thomas Downs met with the enraged Anishinabe leaders on October 21, 1907 and negotiated with them. Anishinabe leaders told Colonel Downs they wanted their children left alone. On October 24, 1907 Colonel Downs telephoned for as many armed men including Dakotas, and that Fort Meade be telegraphed requesting for three troops of cavalry be sent to the Thunder Butte region.

Some 50 armed men from Forest City, South Dakota arrived within 4 miles of Thunder Butte but Colonel Downs ordered them to turn back because he thought a battle would be fought. A large number of Anishinabe soldiers had learned that the 50 armed white men were approaching their village of Thunder Butte and commenced to take up defensive positions along a bend of the Moreau River. Large numbers of white and black soldiers (near 1,000) from Fort Meade, Fort Des Moines, and Fort Robinson were quickly approaching the Thunder Butte region. When they arrived there Anishinabe leaders knew they had to allow their children to go to the white schools to be forced to stop speaking in their Anishinabe language and lose their Nationality. Their fear that their children would die (lose their nationality) eventually occurred. They could not win the battle over the education of the Anishinabe children. Of the near 1,000 white and black soldiers sent to the new Chippewa Reservation, 100s stayed there through the winter of 1907-1908, to make certain the Anishinabe children would be brainwashed.

That is what led Anishinabe ogimak to allow their children to be brainwashed by the whites. However, they succeeded in establishing their new Reservation. Supposedly the Anishinabek requested from the United States to be allowed to return to the Unitah-Ouray Reservation in 1908. Maybe some Utes made the request but not the Anishinabek. They stayed. They had made it clear to the whites that they would fight. This near war was over Anishinabe children. If it had been the new Reservation, a war would have been fought.

The Anishinabe people who settled down to live on their new closed Reservation, eventually became content with their predicament. Above the Moreau River, the loss of land was a burden. There are at least 6 predominantly white settlements north of the Moreau River. At least 3 others north of the Moreau River have white populations which are near 40% of the total population of those 3 settlements. South of the Moreau River none of the settlements have a white majority population. Only Dupree has a significant white population. Whites make up 26% of Dupree's population. The settlements south of the Moreau River are very poor economically.

In 1868, the United States reached a treaty agreement with Anishinabe ogimak (leaders) about setting aside a vast area of land in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming for the Anishinabe Nation. White historians in their determination to rob Anishinabe people of their great history, recorded that the Dakotas were set aside the entire land area just mentioned. They named the vast land area the Great Sioux Reservation. Both Anishinabe leaders and white leaders, knew that the whites lied and would eventually steal that land. That is what occurred. In 1889, the United States eradicated what was left of the so called Great Sioux Reservation and carved three much smaller Reservations out of it, which each had two separate Reservations. They are the Lower Brule-Crow Creek Reservation, Pine Ridge-Rosebud Reservation, and the Cheyenne Agency-Standing Rock Reservation.

Then to continue their downward spiral into deception, the United States commenced to utilizing the filthy Dawes Act. They created the Cheyenne Agency-Standing Rock Reservation Allotment Act of 1908. That is what eradicated this once large Reservation. As mentioned, Anishinabe ogimak knew well before 1908 that the United States was going to open up Reservations to white settlement. And they did take action. Anishinabe ogimak wanted a closed Reservation. If white leaders had left the Anishinabe Reservations alone (stayed closed to white settlement) a great deal of trouble would have been avoided.

It is the Chippewa's (the Anishinabek or Ojibwa's) who are the famous Sioux Indians of the Great Plains. When the French commenced contact with the Lake Superior Anishinabek in the 17th century, they supposedly named them the Sault-teaux. However, that information was very likely corrupted by the whites. The French really named the Chippewa's who lived along Lake Superiors eastern Shores, the Sault, after the name of a French trading post located along Lake Superiors eastern shores. The name of that French trading post was Sault Ste. Marie. Sault is pronounced identically to Sioux. The English adopted the French name for the Chippewa's but used it to identify the plains Chippewa's. In Canada, the Sault was eventually changed to Saulteaux which is pronounced like "soe-toe." After the Reservation was established and Indian children were forced to go to white Christian schools, the whites eventually forced the Chippewa's living on the Cheyenne Agency-Standing Rock Reservation, to lose their Chippewa Tribal identity.

Whites make up around 20% of the Reservation's population. Most live north of the Moreau River. Whites also own (around 3,000,000 acres of the Reservation) most of the Reservation's land. Below are the demographics of this Reservation. The largest settlement in the Standing Rock District is Fort Yates. There is a bit of disturbing stats about Fort Yates. Supposedly Fort Yates has a population of 293. If you research the population of Fort Yates, North Dakota, you will constantly come across information telling you that the population is less than 300. Visit the Standing Rock Reservation website. They have Fort Yates population at over 1,900. It is very similar to that of Poplar, Montana's population. Nearly all websites claim Poplar has a population of 911. Poplar has a population of over 2,800. It is the largest city on the Fort Peck Reservation. The largest settlement in the Cheyenne Agency District is Eagle Butte. The population of Eagle Butte is 3,272. However, Eagle Butte is off the Reservation or on the Surplus land stolen by the whites. Average household size for the Cheyenne Agency-Standing Rock Reservation is 3.6. There is a total of 5,766 housing units on the Reservation, with renter occupied units the majority, while owner occupied are slightly lower.