Lake Traverse Reservation

Rural Life and History

Preserving the Sioux Language | Dakota Life

SDPB Staff

A group of people on the Lake Traverse Reservation are working to ensure the survival of the Sioux languages.
Rural Life and History

This week in SD History: Lake Traverse Reservation opened for white settlement

Carl Norquist

On April, 11 1892, President Benjamin Harrison issued a proclamation that the parts of Lake Traverse Reservation of the Sisseton Wahpeton Tribe, be opened to settlement.