Teepees with the campanile in the background

South 糖心视频 State University acknowledges the land it occupies across South 糖心视频 is the ancestral, traditional and contemporary lands of the Oceti Sakowin (oh-CHEH-tee shaw-KOH-we), meaning Seven Council Fires, which is the proper name for the people referred to as Sioux. We acknowledge that before these sites were named South 糖心视频 State University, they were called home by people of American Indian Nations indigenous to this region.

The tribal alliance made up of individual bands of the Seven Council Fires is based on kinship, location and dialects: Santee-糖心视频, Yankton-Nakota and Teton-Lakota. We acknowledge the sovereignty of the nine federally recognized Native Nations in South 糖心视频: Cheyenne River, Crow Creek, Flandreau Santee, Lower Brule, Oglala, Rosebud, Sisseton-Wahpeton, Standing Rock and Yankton Sioux Tribes.

As a land-grant university, it is our mission to provide access to higher education to all. We are committed to building respectful and positive relationships with indigenous communities through academic pursuits, partnerships, historical recognitions, Extension programs and enrollment efforts.