Indian Reservation Hunting

Right after you crossed the Missouri, in South Dakota Central South Dakota, there is a huge Indian reservation. It looks like it might be decent pheasant hunting?
 
Right after you crossed the Missouri, in South Dakota Central South Dakota, there is a huge Indian reservation. It looks like it might be decent pheasant hunting. That highway eventually ends up in Belle fourche South Dakota, after about 200 mi of nothing.
 
Is that a thing? Can you hunt one? I genuinely don’t understand reservations and how they work. Have a huge one 20 min from me and don’t even know what it looks like. Worked on one out in ND years ago and were instructed not to talk to the locals.
 
Springer22 said:
Is that a thing? Can you hunt one? I genuinely don’t understand reservations and how they work. Have a huge one 20 min from me and don’t even know what it looks like. Worked on one out in ND years ago and were instructed not to talk to the locals.
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As in all things involving Indian reservations, it's a gray area, but most Indian reservations will sell you a hunting license.
 
The Yankton reservation requires a license from their offices as well if I recall correctly.
 
As far as I know the one Goose is talking about allows hunting with their license. Some require you to use an Indian guide also but don’t know which do or don’t. I have never hunted on them.
 
Springer22 said:
Is that a thing? Can you hunt one? I genuinely don’t understand reservations and how they work. Have a huge one 20 min from me and don’t even know what it looks like. Worked on one out in ND years ago and were instructed not to talk to the locals.
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We did a prairie chicken/grouse hunt on one and it was good, but no better than some of the state and grasslands. Deal is that’s it’s a stand alone license, all your state stuff is separate.. if I lived there u bet I would, for a week trip once a year I’ll do one or the other.
 
Quailnerd said:
We did a prairie chicken/grouse hunt on one and it was good, but no better than some of the state and grasslands. Deal is that’s it’s a stand alone license, all your state stuff is separate.. if I lived there u bet I would, for a week trip once a year I’ll do one or the other.
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Guys get any push back from the res or do they pay no mind?
 
Where did you cross the Missouri? Over Big Bend? If so, the Lower Brule reservation is on the west. License is $500 for the season. And an additional $50 per day if you want to hunt the GrassRope area. On the East side of the river is the Crow Creek reservation..I dont know much about their wildlife department..
 
Matt D said:
As far as I know the one Goose is talking about allows hunting with their license. Some require you to use an Indian guide also but don’t know which do or don’t. I have never hunted on them.
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I was on a reservation one time and didn't even know it
 
Every native reservation is different in their approach to interactions with "outside" people, the state, the federal government, trespass, hunting and fishing ...

Many reservations are not a continuous unit but a patchwork of blocks of reservation land, private land, and possible government land interspersed.

Regarding hunting and fishing, some are wide open, some sell licenses, some tolerate no intrusion and confiscate trespassers gear. Many reservations have websites outlining their hunting and fishing regulations.

Most Reservation licenses are for land owned or in recognized tribal control. The reservation licenses allow you to hunt that property, but you cannot hunt nontribal land without proper state licenses.

SD waterfowl hunting (very limited license draw) is an example where you can skirt the state quotas, but must only be on tribal land.

Red Lake reservation up in NW MN is an example of zero tolerance for intrusion ... Upper Red Lake is only partially open to outsiders and Lower Red is off limits. Cross into tribal territory and your boat maybe confiscated. It is one of the more desperately poor reservations. They could likely drive very strong revenue by allowing outsiders to fish their lakes with a tribal license. Not my decision of course, just an observation.
 
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91reddog said:
Where did you cross the Missouri? Over Big Bend? If so, the Lower Brule reservation is on the west. License is $500 for the season. And an additional $50 per day if you want to hunt the GrassRope area. On the East side of the river is the Crow Creek reservation..I dont know much about their wildlife department..
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$250 for non residents on the crow creek side.
 
BRITTMAN said:
Every native reservation is different in their approach to interactions with "outside" people, the state, the federal government, trespass, hunting and fishing ...

Many reservations are not a continuous unit but a patchwork of blocks of reservation land, private land, and possible government land interspersed.

Regarding hunting and fishing, some are wide open, some sell licenses, some tolerate no intrusion and confiscate trespassers gear. Many reservations have websites outlining their hunting and fishing regulations.

Most Reservation licenses are for land owned or in recognized tribal control. The reservation licenses allow you to hunt that property, but you cannot hunt nontribal land without proper state licenses.

SD waterfowl hunting (very limited license draw) is an example where you can skirt the state quotas, but must only be on tribal land.

Red Lake reservation up in NW MN is an example of zero tolerance for intrusion ... Upper Red Lake is only partially open to outsiders and Lower Red is off limits. Cross into tribal territory and your boat maybe confiscated. It is one of the more desperately poor reservations. They could likely drive very strong revenue by allowing outsiders to fish their lakes with a tribal license. Not my decision of course, just an observation.
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I always wondered about the black feet.
 
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