Indigenous Governance Database

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Constitution

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Location: North and South Dakota

Population: 16,000 of which 6400 live on the reservation

Date of Constitution: 1959, as amended through 2008

Native Nations
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Resource Type
Constitutions and Constitutions Excerpts
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Constitutions
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Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
Citation

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. 1959. "Constitution of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe." Fort Yates, ND. 

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