SCOUTING YESTERDAY | Review of 1880s law broadens Indian voting rights in South Dakota

This week in South Dakota history: March 27-April 2

Thomas Nast, 1871 (Library of Congress)

Approximately 2,500 more Indian residents of South Dakota were entitled to vote, the South Dakota Attorney General's Office announced a century ago.

According to a March 1924 article in The Miller Press, a review of the Dawes Act of 1887 by South Dakota Attorney General Buell F. Jones found that Indians who had received or were waiting to receive land allotments from the federal government under the terms of the legislation should be entitled to participate in South Dakota elections.

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