Tamara St. John

Rep. Tamara St. John

Rep. Tamara St. John is a Tribal Archivist in the Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe of the Lake Traverse Reservation of SD. She has served in that position for nine years and works with the Tribal Historic Preservation Office on cultural preservation issues. Tamara, a Native American genealogist, has done extensive research in the history of the Dakota/Lakota/Nakota or Oceti Sakowin. She worked with the Minnesota Historical Society along with other Dakota Tribes to collaborate on the Commemorating Controversy: The Dakota–U.S. War of 1862 exhibition. Tamara also serves as a Republican member of the South Dakota House of Representatives serving District 1.

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