Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 6968—Extension of Trust Period on Allotments Made to Indians of the Crow Creek Band of Sioux, South Dakota

February 09, 1935

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by the act of June 21, 1906 (ch. 3504, 34 Stat. 325, 326), it is ordered that the period of trust on allotments made to Indians of the Crow Creek band of Sioux, under the jurisdiction of the Crow Creek Agency, South Dakota, regardless of whether the lands are on the Crow Creek Reservation or on the opened portion of the Great Sioux Reservation, upon which the period of trust expires during the calendar year 1935, be, and the same is hereby, extended for a period of 10 years from the date on which any such trust would otherwise expire.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

The White House,
February 9, 1935.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 6968—Extension of Trust Period on Allotments Made to Indians of the Crow Creek Band of Sioux, South Dakota Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/276726

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