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Supporting the repeal of the Sioux-Dakota Removal Act.

This Senate Resolution expresses South Dakota's support for repealing the 1863 federal law that removed the Dakota, Anishinaabe, and Ho-Chunk tribes from Minnesota by annulling their treaties and forcing their relocation. The resolution acknowledges the historical injustices leading up to the removal, including broken treaty promises, starvation on reservations, and the largest mass execution in U.S. history. South Dakota is formally calling on Congress to repeal this act that stripped these tribes of their ancestral lands.

Urging the Trump-Vance administration and Office of Management and Budget to uphold the Reagan administration policy of government-to-government relations with tribal nations.

This concurrent resolution doesn't change any state law; instead, it's a formal message from South Dakota's legislature to the Trump-Vance administration urging them to maintain the Reagan-era policy of treating tribal nations as separate governments with whom the federal government negotiates directly. The resolution emphasizes that federal treaties with tribes are binding legal obligations that should be honored in the federal budget, particularly regarding healthcare, law enforcement, and economic support.

Incorporate the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings in public school curriculum.

This bill requires South Dakota school districts to display posters in every classroom showing the Woope Sakowin—seven Lakota values including generosity, compassion, respect, patience, humility, courage, and wisdom—along with explanatory statements about their historical and cultural significance. Schools must post these materials on posters or documents at least eight by fourteen inches with large, readable fonts, making the Oceti Sakowin teachings a visible part of the school environment.