Yankton Indian Reservation
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The Yankton Indian Reservation is the homeland of the Yankton subgroup of the Dakota tribe of Native Americans.
The reservation occupies the easternmost 60 percent of Charles Mix County in southeastern South Dakota, United States. It has a land area of 665.712 sq mi (1,724.186 km²) and a total area (land and water) of 684.406 sq mi (1,772.604 km²), and a resident population of 6,500 persons as of the 2000 census. The population as of the 2010 census was 6,465 inhabitants. It is the second-largest (to the Osage Indian Reservation) Indian reservation that is located entirely within one county. The largest community on the reservation is the city of Wagner, while Marty is the location of the tribal headquarters. The blues-rock group Indigenous is originally from this community.