Executive Order 1916: Extension of Trust Period on Allotments to the Sisseton and Wahpeton Band of Sioux Indians of the Lake Traverse Reservation

Executive Order 1916: Extension of Trust Period on Allotments to the Sisseton and Wahpeton Band of Sioux Indians of the Lake Traverse Reservation

April 16, 1914

White House

It is hereby ordered, under authority contained in section 5 of the act of February 8, 1887 (24 Stats. L., 388), and the act of June 21, 1906 (34 Stats. L., 325–326), that the twenty-five-year trust period on all allotments of the Sisseton and Wahpeton Band of Sioux Indians of the Lake Traverse Reservation, North and South Dakota, the title to which has not passed out of the United States, be, and the same is hereby, extended for a further period of ten years.

Woodrow Wilson

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