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On the recordFebruary 9, 1890
That it is therein provided that if any land in said Great Sioux Reservation is occupied and used by any religious society at the date of said act for the purpose of missionary or educational work among the Indians, whether situate outside of or within the limits of any of the separate reservations, the same, not exceeding 160 acres in any one tract, shall be granted to said society for the purposes and upon the terms and conditions therein named.
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Ben Harrison
Republican · Indiana

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Proclamation 295—Sioux Nation of Indians

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