Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota

The Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate (formerly Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe) is a Native American Nation with a reservation located in portions of North and South Dakota. The Dakota peoples lived along the Minnesota and Wisconsin border before European settlement. Following the Minnesota Sioux War of 1862, the Federal Government placed some Dakota-speaking Sissetons and Wahpetons on a 12-million-acre parcel of land while others fled to Canada, Montana, and Minnesota. The government further limited their land holdings to the Lake Traverse and Devil’s Lake reservations in 1873. Currently, the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate have over 13,000 tribal members living both on and off the reservation. The Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate own and operate the Dakota Magic Casino and Resort located in Hankinson, North Dakota and the Dakota Sioux Casino and Hotel in Watertown, South Dakota.

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