The Hilton M. Briggs Library maintains extensive collections of materials in American Indian Studies, including history, art, literature, sociology, education, archeology, and other related disciplines.
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South Dakota State University acknowledges the land it occupies across South Dakota 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 Dakota State University, they were called home by people of American Indian Nations indigenous to this region.
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