The Hunt for Ducks is Expanded
Tribal Issues
In the late 1950s, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota became the first tribal government to require the purchase of stamps before hunting waterfowl on an Indian Reservation. The stamps were intended to be placed on a tribal hunting license (see Figure 11). Occasionally, hunters affixed the stamps to their state hunting license in error ( see figure 12).
Figure 11. In 1959 the Rosebud Sioux became the first tribal government to require the purchase of stamps prior to hunting for waterfowl on their reservation.
Figure 12. Rosebud Tribal Game Bird stamp issued in 1961. The stamp has been used on a South Dakota license with a state small game stamp.
Stamps have been issued and required of hunters on the Rosebud Reservation in every decade since the 1950s. In the early 1960s additional Indian tribes began requiring hunters to purchase stamps (see Figures 13 and 14).
Figure 13. The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe issued their first waterfowl stamps in 1962.
Figure 14. The Crow Creek Sioux Tribe started issuing stamps required to hunt waterfowl in 1961. For 1963, remainders from 1962 were reused by changing the date with a ball point pen.