South Dakota Minority Records online include African American records, Native American Records, Japanese American Records, and more. This is a preliminary list.
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South Dakota Minority Records Online at the federal level
US – African American – Discover Freedmen, at FS (searches FS Freedmen’s Bureau records), at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images (misc, court, land, labor, medical, African American) NOT IN DISCOVER FREEDMEN DATABASE SEARCHES, at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images, at FS
US – African American – US Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867, at Anc$
US – African American – USGenWeb Project: African American Archives, at USGWA
US – African American – Great slave narratives, IA
US – African American – African American genealogy: a bibliography and guide to sources, at FS
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol I, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol II, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol III, IA
US – African American – African, Americans and the Gettysburg campaign, IA
US – African American – Before the Mayflower : a history of the Negro in America, 1619, 1964, IA
US – African American – Black courage 1775, 1783: Documentation of Black participation in the American Revolution, IA
US – African American – Black genesis : a resource book for African, American genealogy, IA
US – African American – Black Indian genealogy research, IA
US – African American – Black slavery emancipation research in the Northern States, FS
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops : 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry : pamphlet describing M1817, IA
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer Union Soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops, infantry organizations, 14th through 19th, IA
US – African American – Finding a place called home : a guide to African, American genealogy and historical identity, IA
US – African American – Forgotten patriots : African American and American Indian patriots of the Revolutionary War : a guide to service, sources, and studies, DAR
US – African American – Free Negro owners of slaves in the United States in 1830, together with Absentee ownership of slaves in the United States in 1830, GB
US – African American – Generations past : a selected list of sources for Afro, American genealogical research, at FS
US – African American – History of the American negro and his institutions, at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 1. Cases from the courts of England, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 2. Cases from the courts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 3. Cases from the courts of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 4. Cases from the Courts of New England, the Middle States, and the District of Columbia), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 5. Cases from the Courts of States North of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi Rivers, Canada and Jamaica), at FS
US – African American – List of Black servicemen compiled from the War Department collection of Revolutionary War records, at FS
US – African American – List of free black heads of families in the first census of the United States, 1790, at FS
US – African American – Memorials of Lieut. George H. Walcott, late of the 30th U.S. Colored Troops, HT
US – African American – Missing pages in American history : revealing the services of Negroes in the early wars in the United States of America, 1641, 1815, GB
US – African American – Negro population in the United States, 1790, 1915, HT
US – African American – Noted Negro women : their triumphs and activities, at FS
US – African American – Patriots of color: a peculiar beauty and merit : African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill, HT
US – African American – Progress of a race, or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro : from the bondage of slavery, ignorance, and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust, at FS
US – African American – Recollections of a colored troop, LOC
US – African American – Record of the services of the seventh regiment U.S. colored troups, at FS
US – African American – Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops, late 1st S.C. Volunteers, GB
US – African American – Report to the Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 1864 : the refugees from slavery in Canada West, HT
US – African American – Services of colored Americans in the wars of 1776 and 1812, at FS
US – African American – Slavery in the courtroom: an annotated bibliography of American cases, HT
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, GB
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans, GB
US – African American – The Forty, Third Regiment United States Colored Troops, Gutenberg
US – African American – The National cyclopedia of the colored race, GB
US – African American – The negro as a soldier in the war of the rebellion, LOC
US – African American – The Negro soldier : a select compilation, at FS
US – African American – The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c. narrating the hardships hair, breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author, HathiTrust
US – African American – The Underground railroad from slavery to freedom, Gutenberg
US – African American – Two colored women with the American Expeditionary Forces, at FS
US – African American – Who’s who in colored America : an illustrated biographical directory of nolable living persons of African descent in the United States, at FS
US – Japanese American – United States Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II, 1942-1946, index, at FS
US – Japanese American – United States, War Relocation Authority centers, final accountability rosters, 1942-1946, index & images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American Birth and Death Records, 1885-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index links to images, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index & images, at FS
South Dakota Minority Records Online at the state level
South Dakota – Minorities – The Hutterite Brethren: an annotated bibliography with special reference to South Dakota Hutterite colonies, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Indian census rolls, Crow Creek, 1886-1942 (birth, marriage, death, census, Sioux, Brulé, Yanktonai, Dakota), at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Agency records, 1872-1920, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Agency records, 1960-1970, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Annuity payrolls for the Lower Yanktonai Sioux, 1894-1933, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Annuity payrolls of the Lower Brule Sioux, 1892-1933, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Annuity payrolls, 1913-1914, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Annuity rolls, 1890-1932, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Annuity rolls, 1907-1931, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Births, marriages and deaths, 1880-1942 [Standing Rock Agency], at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Census matters, 1927-1931, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Census of the Yankton Reservation, 1931, and undated, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Census records, 1874-1932, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Census records, 1876-1939 [Standing Rock Agency], at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Census, 1926, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Court proceedings and Indian genealogies, 1910, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Economic survey of the Lower Brulé Reservation, 1937, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Estates-heirships, 1926-1934, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Family enrollment reports, 1929 and where children went to school, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Family statistics ledger, late 1800’s – early 1900’s, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Final roll certifications, 1921, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Grazing assignments, 1928-1950, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Heirship and estate records, 1908-1920, 1935-1939, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Heirship records, early 1900’s, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Historical data and tribal council records, early 1900’s, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Indian census rolls, Canton Asylum, 1910-1911, 1921 and 1924, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Indian census rolls, Cheyenne River, 1886-1942, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Indian census rolls, Crow Creek, 1886-1942, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Indian census rolls, Flandreau, 1892-1939, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Indian census rolls, Santee, 1885-1917, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Indian census rolls, Yankton, 1885-1931, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Indians of the Dakotas, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Indians transferred from Standing Rock Agency to Rosebud Agency, 1881-1882, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Indians with Jordan’s, Buffalo Bill’s and Pawnee Bill’s shows, 1894, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Inherited interests in estates in other agencies, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Inherited interests in estates of the Crow Creek Reservation, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Inherited interests in estates of the Lower Brulé Reservation, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Land allotment records, 1904-1944, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Land patents, 1912-1920, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Land records, 1887-1936, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Land records, 1904-1914, 1920-1922, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Land transactions, 1914-1939, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – The last days of the Sioux Nation, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Lessor-lessee index, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Letters sent to the Office of Indian Affairs by the agents or superintendents at the Pine Ridge Agency, 1875-1914, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – List of deaths reported between June 30 and Oct. 1, 1904, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – List of Indian names, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – List of Indians drawing beef on the hoof and Indians to whom heifers were issued, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – List of males over 18, undated, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Lists of males over 18 years of age, 1889, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Marriage licenses, 1906-1917, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Marriage records, 1888-1936, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Marriage register, 1847-1878, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Military records, 1944-1945, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Miscellaneous listings, early 1900’s, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Notes on the life of Crazy Horse (Oglala Sioux), at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Probate records, 1902-1942, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Proceedings of Indian council, 1889, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Ration books, 1892-1906, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Record of births and deaths–Lower Yanktonai Sioux, 1881-1918, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Record of employees, 1938-1940, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Record of marriage licenses–Crow Creek Agency, 1888-1922, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Record of rations issued, 1877-1908, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Records of employees, 1879-1914, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Records of the Central Superintendency of Indian Affairs, 1813-1878, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Register of Lower Yanktoniai Sioux families–Crow Creek Agency, ca. 1901, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Registers of Indian families, 1894-1902, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Reports and correspondence relating to the Army investigations of the battle at Wounded Knee and to the Sioux campaign of 1890-1891, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – School census, 1892, 1895, 1910-1912, 1915-1916, 1918-1919, 1926, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – School census, 1924-1936, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – School records, 1886-1941, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – School records, 1904-1933, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – School records, 1906-1937, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – School records, 1922-1939, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – School records, 1925-1958, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – School records, 1930-1936, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Special census of Indians, 1880, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Special census of Indians; Ihanktonwan Sioux, Crow Creek Agency, 1880, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Special census of Indians; Rosebud Agency, 1880, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Supplemental census, all births and deaths, 1946-1948, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Supplies & stores transported from the Mo. River by Indian train & freighters, 1878-1881, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Three years among the Indians in Dakota, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Tribal adoptions, 1905-1923, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Tribal census of the Lower Brule Reservation, 1919-1940, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Tribal census of the Lower Yanktonai Sioux, 1895-1940, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Tribal census, 1877-1942, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Tribal relations, 1898-1936, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Wotanin Waste : Good news, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Yankton Reservation school census of Indian children 1927, 1930-1931, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Blue Cloud quarterly, 1966, 1968-1973, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – FIS newsletter, 1967-1973, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Flandreau spirit, 1971-1973, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – News report and bulletin, 1955-1973, at FS
South Dakota – Native American – Red Cloud country : the home of the Oglala Sioux Indians, 1963-1973, at FS
South Dakota Minority Records Online at the local level
Flandreau – Indian census rolls, Flandreau, 1892-1939 (Sioux, birth ,death, census, Santee, Dakota), at FS
Rosebud Agency – List of deaths reported between June 30 and Oct. 1, 1904, at FS
Rosebud Agency – Marriage licenses, 1906-1917, at FS
Pine Ridge Agency – Marriage records, 1888-1936, at FS
Spotted Tail Agency – Marriage register, 1847-1878 (brands, property, marriage), at FS
Dakota Territory – Mortality records : persons who died in the year ending 31 May, 1880, Dakota Territory (death), at FS
Crow Creek Agency – Record of births and deaths–Lower Yanktonai Sioux, 1881-1918 (birth, death, Yanktonai), at FS
Crow Creek Agency – Record of marriage licenses–Crow Creek Agency, 1888-1922 (marriage, Dakota Indians), at FS
Pine Ridge Agency – Supplemental census, all births and deaths, 1946-1948 (census, Oglala, Dakota), at FS
Rosebud Agency – Tribal census, 1877-1942 (Dakota Indians), at FS
Spotted Trail Agency – Tribal census, 1877-1942 (Dakota Indians), at FS
Pine Ridge Agency – Agency pension records, 1926-1930 (death dates, pensions, Oglala, Dakota), at FS
Cheyenne River Agency – Agency records, 1869-1951 (birth, death, marriage, divorce, census, school, employment, land, pension, Sioux, Cheyenne), at FS
Pine Ridge Agency – Birth and death records, 1895-1950 (birth, death), at FS
Rosebud Agency – Birth and death records, 1900-1946 (Dakota), at FS
Crow Creek Agency – Birth and death records, 1919-1939 (Dakota, Brulé), at FS
Sisseton Agency – Birth and death records, 1928-1945 (Sisseton, Wahpeton), at FS
Standing Rock Agency – Births, marriages and deaths, 1880-1942 [Standing Rock Agency] (Dakota), at FS
Pine Ridge Agency – Family statistics ledger, late 1800’s – early 1900’s (birth, marriage, death, Oglala, Dakota), at FS
Cheyenne River Agency – Indian census rolls, Cheyenne River, 1886-1942 (birth, marriage, death, census, Sioux, Dakota), at FS
Clay County – Minorities – History of the Swedes Who Settled in Clay County, South Dakota, and Their Biographies, at FS
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