page_title: Standing Rock Indian Reservation
section_title: Governance and districts
hierarchical_section_title: Standing Rock Indian Reservation / Governance and districts
caption_attribution_description: Administrative building for Standing Rock Indian Reservation, North Dakota, US
context_page_description: The Standing Rock Reservation is located in North Dakota and South Dakota in the United States, and is inhabited by ethnic "Hunkpapa and Sihasapa bands of Lakota Oyate and the Ihunktuwona and Pabaksa bands of the Dakota Oyate," as well as the Hunkpatina Dakota. The Ihanktonwana Dakota are the Upper Yanktonai, part of the collective of Wiciyena. The sixth-largest Native American reservation in land area in the US, Standing Rock includes all of Sioux County, North Dakota, and all of Corson County, South Dakota, plus slivers of northern Dewey and Ziebach counties in South Dakota, along their northern county lines at Highway 20.
  The reservation has a land area of 9,251.2 square kilometers and a population of 8,217 as of the 2010 census. There are 15,568 enrolled members of the tribe. The largest communities on the reservation are Fort Yates, Cannon Ball and McLaughlin.
context_section_description: According to its constitution, Standing Rock's governing body is the elected 17-member Tribal Council, including the Tribal Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary, and 14 representatives. As of 2018, the current chairman is Mike Faith.
  They serve terms of four years, with elections providing for staggered replacement of members. Six members are elected at-large and eight from the regional single-member districts: 
  Fort Yates  (Long Soldier)
  Porcupine
  Kenel
  Wakpala
  Running Antelope (Little Eagle)
  Bear Soldier (McLaughlin)
  Rock Creek (Bullhead)
  Cannonball
caption: Standing Rock Administrative Service building, Fort Yates
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