  The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is the second-largest satellite galaxy of
the Milky Way and is only 60 kpc away. As a nearby, massive, and dense object
with relatively low astrophysical backgrounds, it is a natural target for dark
matter indirect detection searches. In this work, we use six years of Pass 8
data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope to search for gamma-ray signals of
dark matter annihilation in the SMC. Using data-driven fits to the gamma-ray
backgrounds, and a combination of N-body simulations and direct measurements of
rotation curves to estimate the SMC DM density profile, we found that the SMC
was well described by standard astrophysical sources, and no signal from dark
matter annihilation was detected. We set conservative upper limits on the dark
matter annihilation cross section. These constraints are in agreement with
stronger constraints set by searches in the Large Magellanic Cloud and approach
the canonical thermal relic cross section at dark matter masses lower than 10
GeV in the $b\bar{b}$ and $\tau^+\tau^-$ channels.
