MS 1999-24 Oglala Sioux census
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: NAA MS 1999-24
name: label: Creator
content: United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency
label: Creator
content: Brennan, John R. (John Richard), 1848-1919
place: label: Place
content: North America
label: Place
content: Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)
creator: label: Creator
content: United States. Office of Indian Affairs. Pine Ridge Agency
label: Creator
content: Brennan, John R. (John Richard), 1848-1919
culture: label: Culture
content: Oglala Lakota [Pine Ridge]
bioghist: label: Historical Note
content: The Pine Ridge Reservation was originally part of the Great Sioux Reservation established by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, which encompassed approximately 60 million acres of parts of South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming. In 1876, the U.S. government violated the treaty of 1868 by opening up 7.7 million acres of the Black Hills to homesteaders and private interests. In 1889 the government divided the remaining area of Great Sioux Reservation into seven separate reservations, including the Pine Ridge Reservation. Major John R. Brennan (d. 1919) was superintendent of Pine Ridge from 1900 to 1917.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Ledger (36 pages, 9 x 15 inches)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1904 June 30
container: label: Container
content: Box 99-24
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Richard Pohrt in 1999.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS1999-24
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Ledgers
label: Type
content: Census records
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Census records
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection is comprised of a census of the Oglala Sioux at the Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota, taken on June 30, 1904 by Indian agent Major John R. Brennan. The census consists of 938 handwritten entries on 36 leaves.  The covers of the ledger have been painted with geometric designs. The covers have been removed.

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