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Lower Brulé Sioux - South Dakota (U.S.)

Native American

image by Donald Healy, 12 January 2008

The band
The flag

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The Band

map image by Peter Orenski based on input from Don Healy

Lower Brulé Sioux - South Dakota

The Kul Wicasa, or Lower Brul� , form part of the Sicangu Band of the Teton Sioux. Their lands were one of six reservations established by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 [see Rosebud Sioux, Standing Rock Sioux, Oglala Sioux, Crow Creek Sioux, and Cheyenne River Sioux]. The Lower Brul� reservation originally encompassed some 446,500 acres, but has been reduced to 139,000 acres (NAA, 284).

Approximately 95% of the Kul Wicasa live around the community of Lower Brul� on the southern shore of the Missouri River. The Lower Brul� became administratively distinct in 1971 when the Crow Creek Reservation separated from it. They had been a single administrative unit since 1883 (Presenting the Lower Brul� Sioux, Pierre, n.d.).

� Donald Healy 2008

The Flag

The flag of the Lower Brul� is sky-blue with the tribal seal in the center. As on most Sioux tribal flags, the tepee occupies a key place in the seal: for the Lower Brul� a black and white tepee with red trim appears on an outstretched buffalo hide of light tan. This device appears on a sky-blue background. Both symbols recall the great days of the Sioux people as the masters of the northern plains, living in tepees and following the enormous herds of buffalo. A sky-blue band, edged in red on both sides, rings the seal, with "LOWER BRUL� SIOUX TRIBE" across the top and "LOWER BRULÉ, SOUTH DAKOTA" across the bottom, all in red.

[Thanks to the staff at the United Sioux Tribes for a photo of the flag of the Lower Brul� Sioux.]

� Donald Healy 2008
information provided by Peter Orenski, 12 January 2008