Category Archives: Wolfchild vs. U.S.

Sioux (Dakota) Annuity and Census Rolls, 1843-1935

Posted on September 28, 2006 by Griff Wigley

I got another email from Tamara St. John Tordsen this week, asking if I’d post the large PDFs of the Sioux Annuity and Census Rolls as it’s evidently been difficult to find an inexpensive web server to host them. Michael … Continue reading →

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Judge Lettow grants motions of all potential intervenors

Posted on August 22, 2006 by Griff Wigley

In an opinion and order dated today, August 22, 2006, (pdf of a fax on the Mohrman & Karadal site), Judge Charles Lettow has evidently granted the motions of all potential intervenors in the Wolfchild vs. U.S case (No. 03-2684L) … Continue reading →

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The White Report on eligibility

Posted on August 21, 2006 by Griff Wigley

Historian Bruce White sent me this report (21 page PDF) he wrote for the Organization of Mendota Dakota (OMD) earlier this year. On the cover it reads: Eligibility under the 1888, 1889, and 1890 Federal Appropriations for the Mdewakanton Sioux … Continue reading →

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Background on our interest in Wolfchild vs. U.S.

Posted on August 12, 2006 by Griff Wigley

A few weeks ago, I got a phone call from Bruce White (left), a historian (his company: Turnstone Historical Research) I’d met back in 2002 at a ceremony dedicating the Minnesota Historical Society’s opening of the restored Hypolite Dupuis House … Continue reading →

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