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    Sioux Indian Courts An address delivered by Doane Robinson before the South Dakota Bar Association, at Pierre, South Dakota, January 21, 1909
    Sioux Indian Courts An address delivered by Doane Robinson before the South Dakota Bar Association, at Pierre, South Dakota, January 21, 1909
    Sioux Indian Courts An address delivered by Doane Robinson before the South Dakota Bar Association, at Pierre, South Dakota, January 21, 1909
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    Sioux Indian Courts An address delivered by Doane Robinson before the South Dakota Bar Association, at Pierre, South Dakota, January 21, 1909

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      Title: Sioux Indian Courts

      An address delivered by Doane Robinson before the South

      Dakota Bar Association, at Pierre, South Dakota, January

      21, 1909

      Author: Doane Robinson

      Release Date: July 10, 2008 [EBook #26021]

      Language: English

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      Sioux Indian Courts

      AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BY

      DOANE ROBINSON

      OF PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA

      BEFORE THE

      South Dakota Bar Association

      At Pierre, South Dakota

      JANUARY 21, 1909

      R. C. SESSIONS & SONS

      SIOUX FALLS S. D.

      SIOUX INDIAN COURTS

      In their primitive life the Sioux Indians of North America had an intelligent system of jurisprudence, varying somewhat in the different bands, as our court practice varies in the several states, but nevertheless recognizing the same general principles throughout the confederacy.¹

      It is not an easy thing to determine the laws or the practices of an unlettered people, who have abandoned the wild and primitive life to live under regulations prescribed by their conquerors, and who must depend upon tradition and recollection for the practices of the old life; but fortunately intelligent observers have from time to time, during the past two and one half centuries, noted their observations, and these, supplemented by the recollections of the older men now living, give to us a fairly clear understanding of the courts and the legal practices of these people.

      Primarily the Sioux government was by clans,—patriarchal; but within the clan it very nearly approached the representative republican form. The council was the representative body which gave expression to the will of the people. True the council was selected by the chief of the clan, but his very tenure of office depended upon his using the nicest discretion in inviting into his cabinet the men of character, valor and influence, so that the body was almost invariably entirely representative of popular views and

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