“Yankton, Sioux, Dakota, Ihanktunwan”

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(Note: any text in italics has been taken from the official SDSHS records.)

Marker Text

To commemorate the treaty between the United States of America and the Yankton Tribe of Sioux of Dakota Indians, concluded at Washington D.C. April 19, 1858, ratified by the Senate February 18, 1859.

Yankton

In memory of the Yankton chiefs, who made the treaty of 1858. Struck by the Ree, Black Bear, Medicine Cow, White Swan, Pretty Boy, Feather in the Ear, Crazy Bull, Frank Deloria.

Sioux

Delegates who signed the Treaty of 1858

Charles Picotte, Jumping Thunder, Mazahetun, Numkalipa, Running Bull, Walking Elk, Standing Elk, Bad Voice Elk, Ceyanwokape, Hinhanwicasa.

Ihanktunwas

Illegible Dakota”

Location

Charles Mix County, SD 50 1/4 mile north of Greenwood (1988)