A
cooperative project between the Moody County Historical
Society and the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe - established
to chronicle the settling of Moody County and the positive
interaction between the two cultures.
In 1869,
many Dakota families left the Santee Sioux Reservation in
Nebraska to take homesteads on the wapaopaksan (bend
in the river) of the Big Sioux near the abandoned town site
of Flandreau in southeastern Dakota Territory. During
the summer of 1869, the Moody County was surveyed by Richard
F. Pettigrew and the Dakota traveled to Vermillion to
perfect their land titles. White settlers arrived in
1870, and soon the county was populated with Dakota and
White settlers. The Dakota and White men and women who
settled on the rich farmland along the Big Sioux River have
left a legacy of cooperation and respect between the two
cultures.
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| Pete Hales Donated His Pipestone Collections | Beaded artifacts from the Santee Sioux | Carved Pipestone are a large part of the display |
| * Develop research library and archives | * Record history of early Dakota & White settlers |
| * Locate homestead records and maps | * Collect family histories and genealogies |
| * Collect photographs | * Create exhibit of the settling of Moody County |
| * Create Dakota Archives website | * Provide a secure environment for all collections |
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* Promote Dakota Archives, Moody County Historical Society, Moody County Museum and the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe |
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Copyright © 2009, Moody County Historical Society