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by year. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="First_people">First people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_South_Dakota&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: First people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bear%27s_Belly_by_Edward_Curtis,_1908.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Bear%27s_Belly_by_Edward_Curtis%2C_1908.jpg/220px-Bear%27s_Belly_by_Edward_Curtis%2C_1908.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="296" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Bear%27s_Belly_by_Edward_Curtis%2C_1908.jpg/330px-Bear%27s_Belly_by_Edward_Curtis%2C_1908.jpg 1.5x, 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tradition">Folsom tradition</a></li> <li><b>Circa 5000 BCE</b>: <a href="/wiki/Archaic_period_(North_America)" title="Archaic period (North America)">Plains Archaic period</a> begins with drier climate.</li> <li><b>Beginning 35th century BCE</b>: <a href="/wiki/Mound_Builders" title="Mound Builders">Mound Builders</a> begin living in eastern South Dakota, encompassing the Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian cultures: <ul><li><b>11th century BCE</b>: The <a href="/wiki/Woodland_period" title="Woodland period">Woodland period</a> begins in eastern South Dakota: the period between <a href="/wiki/Hunter-gatherer" title="Hunter-gatherer">hunter-gatherers</a> and agriculture that includes innovation in pottery, textiles, and tools. Climate improves to its modern state. Trade with farther cultures is common.</li> <li><b>11th century</b>: Agriculture begins with the <a href="/wiki/Mississippian_culture" title="Mississippian culture">Mississippian culture</a>.</li> <li><b>1325</b>: <a href="/wiki/Crow_Creek_massacre" title="Crow Creek massacre">More than 450 people were massacred at a Crow Creek village</a>.</li> <li><b>15th century</b>: <a href="/wiki/Arikara" title="Arikara">Arikara</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Plains_Indians" title="Plains Indians">Plains Village people</a> arrive and live along the Missouri River valley.<sup id="cite_ref-sdarch_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sdarch-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="16th_century">16th century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_South_Dakota&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 16th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In the <a href="/wiki/Pre-Columbian_era" title="Pre-Columbian era">pre-colonial</a> time before the <a href="/wiki/First_wave_of_European_colonization" title="First wave of European colonization">Europeans arrived</a>, there were hunter-gatherer peoples west of the Missouri River, Woodland culture along the eastern lakes, and Plains Villages and <a href="/wiki/Oneota" title="Oneota">Oneota</a> cultures all in what is now South Dakota. The western cultures are now known as the <a href="/wiki/Crow_Nation" class="mw-redirect" title="Crow Nation">Crow Nation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cheyenne" title="Cheyenne">Cheyenne</a>. The Plains Villagers are now known as <a href="/wiki/Mandan" title="Mandan">Mandans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arikara" title="Arikara">Arikaras</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hidatsa" title="Hidatsa">Hidatsas</a>. The easternmost tribes are now known as <a href="/wiki/Omaha_people" title="Omaha people">Omahas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ponca" title="Ponca">Poncas</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Dakota_people" title="Dakota people">Dakotas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sdarch_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sdarch-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="17th_century">17th century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_South_Dakota&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: 17th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sioux" title="Sioux">Sioux</a> people arrive.</li></ul> <p><b>1670-1707</b> </p> <ul><li>South Dakota land is part of the English territory of <a href="/wiki/Rupert%27s_Land" title="Rupert's Land">Rupert's Land</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>1683</b> </p> <ul><li>French explorer and fur trader <a href="/wiki/Pierre-Charles_Le_Sueur" title="Pierre-Charles Le Sueur">Pierre-Charles Le Sueur</a> probably visited <a href="/wiki/Sioux_Falls,_South_Dakota" title="Sioux Falls, South Dakota">Sioux Falls</a> to buy <a href="/wiki/North_American_fur_trade" title="North American fur trade">furs</a> which he shipped by flatboat to the mouth of the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi River</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>1699-1764</b> </p> <ul><li>South Dakota land is part of the French colony of <i><a href="/wiki/Louisiana_(New_France)" title="Louisiana (New France)">La Louisiane</a>.</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="18th_century">18th century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_South_Dakota&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 18th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>1700</b> </p> <ul><li>Le Sueur's traders from Fort L'Huillier (<a href="/wiki/Mankato,_Minnesota" title="Mankato, Minnesota">Mankato, Minnesota</a>) traded on <a href="/wiki/Big_Sioux_River" title="Big Sioux River">Big Sioux River</a> at <a href="/wiki/Flandreau,_South_Dakota" title="Flandreau, South Dakota">Flandreau</a> and Sioux Falls.</li></ul> <p><b>1743</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Verendrye_brothers%27_journey_to_the_Rocky_Mountains" title="Verendrye brothers' journey to the Rocky Mountains">Verendrye brothers visited western part of South Dakota</a> and claimed soil for French king. <a href="/wiki/Verendrye_Site" title="Verendrye Site">Planted lead plate inscribed with arms of France near Pierre</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>1745</b> </p> <ul><li>De Lusigan visited <a href="/wiki/Big_Stone_Lake" title="Big Stone Lake">Big Stone Lake</a> to call in unlicensed traders.</li></ul> <p><b>1750</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lakota_people" title="Lakota people">Teton Sioux</a> at about this date, having driven <a href="/wiki/Omaha_people" title="Omaha people">Omahas</a> from Big Sioux and <a href="/wiki/James_River_(Dakotas)" title="James River (Dakotas)">James</a> river valleys, reached <a href="/wiki/Missouri_River" title="Missouri River">Missouri River</a> and engaged <a href="/wiki/Arikara" title="Arikara">Arikara</a> (Rees) in forty years' war.</li></ul> <p><b>1762</b> </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Fontainebleau_of_1762" class="mw-redirect" title="Treaty of Fontainebleau of 1762">Treaty of Fontainebleau</a> cedes the French colony of <i>La Louisiane</i>, including South Dakota land, to Spain.</li></ul> <p><b>1764-1803</b> </p> <ul><li>South Dakota land is part of the <a href="/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spanish</a> (though predominantly <a href="/wiki/Francophone" class="mw-redirect" title="Francophone">Francophone</a>) district of <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_(New_Spain)" title="Louisiana (New Spain)">Alta Luisiana</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>1775</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oglala_Lakota" class="mw-redirect" title="Oglala Lakota">Oglala Tetons</a> discover <a href="/wiki/Black_Hills" title="Black Hills">Black Hills</a> and soon afterward drive <a href="/wiki/Kiowa" title="Kiowa">Kiowas</a> from that region.</li></ul> <p><b>1780</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yankton_Sioux_Tribe" title="Yankton Sioux Tribe">Yankton</a> and Yanktonais Sioux, about this date, having been driven from western Iowa by <a href="/wiki/Otoe_tribe" class="mw-redirect" title="Otoe tribe">Ottos</a>, came up and settled in <a href="/wiki/James_River_(Dakotas)" title="James River (Dakotas)">James River</a> valley.</li></ul> <p><b>1785</b> </p> <ul><li>Pierre Dorion, afterward guide to <a href="/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition" title="Lewis and Clark Expedition">Lewis and Clark</a>, married a Yankton woman and settled in trade at mouth of James River.</li></ul> <p><b>1790</b> </p> <ul><li>Pierre Garreau settled with Rees at mouth of <a href="/wiki/Grand_River_(South_Dakota)" title="Grand River (South Dakota)">Grand River</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>1792</b> </p> <ul><li>Sioux finally conquer Rees and drive them from their strong position in neighborhood of <a href="/wiki/Pierre,_South_Dakota" title="Pierre, South Dakota">Pierre</a>. The Rees retreat up river and settle with relatives at mouth of Grand River.</li></ul> <p><b>1796</b> </p> <ul><li>Loisel, or L'Oiselle, builds post on Cedar Island, between Pierre and Big Bend. First recorded post in South Dakota.</li></ul> <p><b>1797</b> </p> <ul><li>Trudeau builds "Pawnee House" on east side of the Missouri, opposite <a href="/wiki/Fort_Randall" title="Fort Randall">Fort Randall</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Charles_Mix_County,_South_Dakota" title="Charles Mix County, South Dakota">Charles Mix County</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="19th_century">19th century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_South_Dakota&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 19th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>1800</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Third_Treaty_of_San_Ildefonso" title="Third Treaty of San Ildefonso">Third Treaty of San Ildefonso</a> led to the return of the Louisiana Territory to France.</li></ul> <p><b>1803</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/France" title="France">French</a> district of <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_(New_France)" title="Louisiana (New France)">Haute-Louisiane</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_States" title="Territories of the United States">Unorganized U.S. territory</a> created by the <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase" title="Louisiana Purchase">Louisiana Purchase</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>1804</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_and_Clark_Expedition" title="Lewis and Clark Expedition">Lewis and Clark explore Missouri valley through South Dakota, en route to Pacific</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/District_of_Louisiana" title="District of Louisiana">District of Louisiana</a>, 1804-1805</li></ul> <p><b>1805</b> </p> <ul><li>Pierre Dorion conducts party of Sioux chiefs to <a href="/wiki/St._Louis" title="St. Louis">St. Louis</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territory_of_Louisiana" class="mw-redirect" title="Territory of Louisiana">Territory of Louisiana</a>, 1805–1812</li></ul> <p><b>1806</b> </p> <ul><li>Lewis and Clark return from Pacific passing through South Dakota.</li></ul> <p><b>1807</b> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Manuel_Lisa.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/68/Manuel_Lisa.JPG/220px-Manuel_Lisa.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="317" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/68/Manuel_Lisa.JPG 1.5x" data-file-width="280" data-file-height="403" /></a><figcaption>Manuel Lisa</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Manuel_Lisa" title="Manuel Lisa">Manuel Lisa</a> undertakes trade with Indians at head of Missouri. Sergeant Nathaniel Pryor attempts to conduct Big White, a Mandan chief who visited Washington with Lewis and Clark, to his home and is attacked and driven back by Rees, assisted by <a href="/wiki/Miniconjou" title="Miniconjou">Minneconjou</a> Teton Sioux under Black Buffalo. Four whites killed, nine wounded.</li></ul> <p><b>1808</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Missouri_Fur_Company" title="Missouri Fur Company">St. Louis Missouri Fur Company</a> organized for trade on Upper Missouri. Established post in Loisel house on Cedar Island.</li></ul> <p><b>1809</b> </p> <ul><li>Manuel Lisa, for St Louis Missouri Fur Company, safely conducts Big White to his home in North Dakota. Finds Rees friendly.</li></ul> <p><b>1810</b> </p> <ul><li>Loisel post burned with large stock of furs.</li></ul> <p><b>1811</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Jacob_Astor" title="John Jacob Astor">Astorian</a> party go up Missouri to Grand River where they buy horses of Rees and go thence up <a href="/wiki/Grand_River_(South_Dakota)" title="Grand River (South Dakota)">Grand River</a> toward Pacific. First recorded exploration of northern Black Hills region.</li> <li>Manuel Lisa finds Sioux excited over "Prophet craze" and believes it due to hostile English influence. Reports condition to <a href="/wiki/William_Clark" title="William Clark">General Clark</a>, <a href="/wiki/Indian_agent" title="Indian agent">Indian agent</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>1812</b> </p> <ul><li>Red Thunder, Flathead Yanktonais chief from Elm River, Brown County, with son, <a href="/wiki/Wanata" title="Wanata">Waneta</a>, and twenty-two Sissetons enlist to serve English in <a href="/wiki/War_of_1812" title="War of 1812">war against Americans</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Territory_of_Missouri" class="mw-redirect" title="Territory of Missouri">Territory of Missouri</a>, 1812–1821.</li></ul> <p><b>1813</b> </p> <ul><li>Manuel Lisa made subagent for Missouri River Sioux and keeps them friendly to American interests.</li></ul> <p><b>1815</b> </p> <ul><li>Teton Sioux sign treaty of friendship at <a href="/w/index.php?title=Portage_des_Sioux&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Portage des Sioux (page does not exist)">Portage des Sioux</a>. Black Buffalo dies there July 14. Given military funeral.</li></ul> <p><b>1816</b> </p> <ul><li>Pawnee House burns.</li></ul> <p><b>1817</b> </p> <ul><li>Fur trade revives. Joseph La Framboise builds Fort Teton at site of <a href="/wiki/Fort_Pierre,_South_Dakota" title="Fort Pierre, South Dakota">Fort Pierre</a>. First continuous settlement.</li></ul> <p><b>1818</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anglo-American_Convention_of_1818" class="mw-redirect" title="Anglo-American Convention of 1818">Anglo-American Convention</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>1822</b> </p> <ul><li>La Framboise builds trading post at Great Bend of Big Sioux (<a href="/wiki/Flandreau,_South_Dakota" title="Flandreau, South Dakota">Flandreau</a>).</li> <li>Fort Tecumseh built at site of Fort Pierre by <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Fur_Company" title="Columbia Fur Company">Columbia Fur Company</a>.</li> <li>Fort Recovery built upon American Island at <a href="/wiki/Chamberlain,_South_Dakota" title="Chamberlain, South Dakota">Chamberlain</a> by Missouri Fur Company. (It is possible this post was built ten years earlier to compensate loss of Loisel post, and was headquarters of Manuel Lisa during War of 1812-1815.)</li></ul> <p><b>1823</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Ashley" class="mw-redirect" title="William Henry Ashley">General Ashley</a>, lieutenant governor of Missouri, en route to Yellowstone, with cargo of goods and one hundred men, attacked by Rees at Grand River and thirteen men killed and ten severely wounded.</li> <li>Colonel <a href="/wiki/Henry_Leavenworth" title="Henry Leavenworth">Henry Leavenworth</a>, with 220 men, marches from Fort Atkinson, near Omaha, to punish Rees for attack on Atkinson. At Yankton, July 3, Sergeant Samuel Stackpole and six men drowned by overturning of boat. Leavenworth is joined by Joshua Pilcher, manager of Missouri Fur Company, with forty volunteers at Fort Recovery. General Ashley and eighty men join party at Cheyenne River. Seven hundred and fifty Sioux Indians volunteer for the campaign. August 9 Ree towns reached and besieged. Rees punished and beg for terms. First general military movement in Dakota.</li></ul> <p><b>1825</b> </p> <ul><li>General Henry Atkinson and <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_O%27Fallon" title="Benjamin O'Fallon">Benjamin O'Fallon</a> sent up Missouri with an escort of 476 men to make treaties for trade and intercourse with Indian tribes. Very successful. Destroy English influence with Indians. First Fourth of July celebration in Dakota.</li> <li>Wamdesapa, a Wakpekuta chief, kills his brother Tasagi and is driven from his tribe. Settles on <a href="/wiki/Vermillion_River_(South_Dakota)" title="Vermillion River (South Dakota)">Vermilion River</a> in South Dakota.</li></ul> <p><b>1828</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/American_Fur_Company" title="American Fur Company">American Fur Company</a> absorbs Columbia Fur Company and becomes dominant in Dakota trade.</li></ul> <p><b>1831</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Chouteau,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Pierre Chouteau, Jr.">Pierre Chouteau, Jr.</a>, navigates first steamboat, the <i>Yellowstone</i>, on upper Missouri, reaching Fort Tecumseh. Revolutionizes fur trade methods.</li></ul> <p><b>1832</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Pierre_Chouteau" title="Fort Pierre Chouteau">Fort Pierre</a> built to succeed Fort Tecumseh.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Catlin" title="George Catlin">George Catlin</a>, famous painter of Indian pictures, visits Fort Pierre and paints many likenesses.</li> <li>Frederick Le Beau, a trader, kills Francois Querrel, an employee, at mouth of Cherry Creek, on Cheyenne River. Le Beau arrested by order of William Laidlaw, burgeois of Fort Pierre, and sent to St. Louis in chains.</li></ul> <p><b>1837</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1837_Great_Plains_smallpox_epidemic" title="1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic">Great smallpox epidemic on Missouri River.</a> All tribes suffer severely. <a href="/wiki/Mandan" title="Mandan">Mandans</a> practically destroyed.</li></ul> <p><b>1838</b> </p> <ul><li>Dr. <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Nicollet" title="Joseph Nicollet">Joseph N. Nicollet</a>, accompanied by <a href="/wiki/John_C._Fr%C3%A9mont" title="John C. Frémont">John C. Frémont</a>, visits the <a href="/wiki/Coteau_des_Prairies" title="Coteau des Prairies">coteau region of eastern South Dakota</a>, mapping and naming the lakes.</li></ul> <p><b>1839</b> </p> <ul><li>Nicollet and Fremont again visit South Dakota, coming up the river to Fort Pierre, thence passing over to James River, and finally to the <a href="/wiki/Minnesota_River" title="Minnesota River">Minnesota</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre-Jean_De_Smet" title="Pierre-Jean De Smet">Father Pierre John De Smet</a> visits the renegade band of Wakpekuta Sioux under Wamdesapa, to try to effect a peace between them and the <a href="/wiki/Potawatomi" title="Potawatomi">Potawatomies</a> of central Iowa.</li></ul> <p><b>1840</b> </p> <ul><li>Dr. Stephen R. Riggs, celebrated <a href="/wiki/Missionary" title="Missionary">missionary</a> from Minnesota River, visits Fort Pierre and preaches first Christian sermon in Dakota.</li></ul> <p><b>1842</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_James_Audubon" title="John James Audubon">Audubon</a>, the naturalist, visited the section upon a professional trip and observed and noted most of the birds and animals.</li> <li>Father Alexander Ravoux visits Fort Pierre and baptizes many Indians.</li></ul> <p><b>1845</b> </p> <ul><li>Father Ravoux visits Fort Vermilion.</li></ul> <p><b>1847</b> </p> <ul><li>Mrs. Joseph La Barge comes to Fort Pierre, with her husband, Captain La Barge of the steamboat <i>Martha</i>. First white woman to visit South Dakota. The <i>Martha</i> attacked by Yankton Indians at Crow Creek.</li></ul> <p><b>1849</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Inkpaduta" title="Inkpaduta">Inkpaduta</a>, son of the renegade Wamdesapa, massacres his cousin Wamundiyakapi and seventeen other Wakpekutas.</li></ul> <p><b>1851</b> </p> <ul><li>Father De Smet visits the Teton Sioux.</li> <li>Santee Sioux relinquish title to all land east of Big Sioux River by <a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Traverse_des_Sioux" title="Treaty of Traverse des Sioux">treaty of Traverse des Sioux</a>. This was the first Euro-American settlement of the land to become South Dakota.<sup id="cite_ref-railroads_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-railroads-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Fort_Laramie_(1851)" title="Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851)">Treaty of Fort Laramie</a> of 1851.</li></ul> <p><b>1855</b> </p> <ul><li>Government buys Fort Pierre. General <a href="/wiki/William_S._Harney" title="William S. Harney">William S. Harney</a>, after <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ash_Hollow" title="Battle of Ash Hollow">battle of Ash Hollow</a>, in Nebraska, brings army of twelve hundred men to Pierre. Lieutenant <a href="/wiki/Gouverneur_K._Warren" title="Gouverneur K. Warren">Gouverneur K. Warren</a>, afterward famous in <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a>, examines and makes topographical survey of much of South Dakota.</li></ul> <p><b>1856</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Randall" title="Fort Randall">Fort Randall</a> established by General William S. Harney.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><b>1857</b> </p> <ul><li>Settlement begun at <a href="/wiki/Sioux_Falls,_South_Dakota" title="Sioux Falls, South Dakota">Sioux Falls</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flandreau,_South_Dakota" title="Flandreau, South Dakota">Flandreau</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Medary,_South_Dakota" title="Medary, South Dakota">Medary</a>. "The Noble Road" built across the state from <a href="/wiki/Lake_Benton,_Minnesota" title="Lake Benton, Minnesota">Lake Benton</a> to Crow Creek.</li> <li>Fort Randall completed and occupied.</li> <li>Inkpaduta, the renegade, massacres forty-two settlers at <a href="/wiki/Spirit_Lake,_Iowa" title="Spirit Lake, Iowa">Spirit Lake, Iowa</a>, and retreats into South Dakota with three white women captives.</li></ul> <p><b>1858</b> </p> <ul><li>Yankton Sioux make treaty relinquishing title to lands between Big Sioux and Missouri. <a href="/wiki/Yankton_Indian_Reservation" title="Yankton Indian Reservation">Yankton Indian Reservation</a> established.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was the second treaty with the Sioux within seven years to open land to Euro-American settlement, and the land became known as the Yankton Triangle.<sup id="cite_ref-railroads_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-railroads-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Mrs. Goodwin, first white woman settler, arrives at Sioux Falls.</li> <li>Settlement at Medary destroyed by Smutty Bear, Yankton Sioux.</li> <li>Settlers at Sioux Falls build and fortify Fort Sod.</li> <li>Provisional government organized. Legislature elected and convened. Alpheus G. Fuller sent as delegate to Congress. Henry Masters, governor.</li></ul> <p><b>1859</b> </p> <ul><li>Yankton treaty ratified. July 10 Indians surrender lands. <a href="/wiki/Yankton,_South_Dakota" title="Yankton, South Dakota">Yankton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vermillion,_South_Dakota" title="Vermillion, South Dakota">Vermilion</a>, and Bon Homme founded.</li> <li><i>Dakota Democrat</i> newspaper established by Samuel J. Albright. Governor Masters dies. New legislature elected at Sioux Falls. <a href="/wiki/Jefferson_P._Kidder" title="Jefferson P. Kidder">Jefferson P. Kidder</a> elected delegate to Congress. <a href="/wiki/Wilmot_Brookings" title="Wilmot Brookings">Wilmot W. Brookings</a> provisional governor.</li></ul> <p><b>1860</b> </p> <ul><li>First church society organized at Vermilion by <a href="/wiki/American_Presbyterianism" class="mw-redirect" title="American Presbyterianism">Presbyterians</a>.</li> <li>First school opened at Vermilion.</li> <li>First schoolhouse built at Bon Homme.</li> <li>Non-Native population was approximately 1100 people, mostly in trading posts or military garrisons along the rivers.<sup id="cite_ref-railroads_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-railroads-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><b>1861</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dakota_Territory" title="Dakota Territory">Dakota Territory</a> erected by Congress March 2. Dr. <a href="/wiki/William_Jayne" title="William Jayne">William Jayne</a> appointed governor. Establishes temporary capital at Yankton. Calls election for legislature and delegate to Congress. John B.S. Todd elected delegate.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dakota_in_the_American_Civil_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Dakota in the American Civil War">Dakota in the American Civil War</a></li></ul> <p><b>1862</b> </p> <ul><li>First territorial legislature, the "Pony Congress", meets March 17. They chartered the Missouri and Niobrara Valley Railroad Company, a planned but never completed railway.<sup id="cite_ref-railroads_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-railroads-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Company A, Dakota <a href="/wiki/United_States_Cavalry" title="United States Cavalry">cavalry</a>, organized at Yankton.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Dakota_State_Historical_Society" title="South Dakota State Historical Society">South Dakota State Historical Society</a> founded May 7, 1862.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dakota_War_of_1862" title="Dakota War of 1862">Great Indian Outbreak</a> in Minnesota, August 18. The Amidons massacred at Sioux Falls. Settlers flee in wild panic. Stockade at Yankton. All men called to arms.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crow_Creek_Reservation" class="mw-redirect" title="Crow Creek Reservation">Crow Creek Reservation</a> established.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Homestead_Acts" title="Homestead Acts">Homestead Act of 1862</a> provides ownership of South Dakota land to people who farm it for several years.</li></ul> <p><b>1863</b> </p> <ul><li>Governor Jayne goes to Congress. <a href="/wiki/Newton_Edmunds" title="Newton Edmunds">Newton Edmunds</a> appointed governor. Company B, Dakota cavalry, organized at <a href="/wiki/Elk_Point,_South_Dakota" title="Elk Point, South Dakota">Elkpoint</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>1864</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Standing_Rock_Indian_Reservation" title="Standing Rock Indian Reservation">Standing Rock Indian Reservation</a> established.</li></ul> <p><b>1865</b> </p> <ul><li>War of Outbreak ended by treaty at Fort Pierre. <a href="/wiki/Bozeman_Trail" title="Bozeman Trail">Montana road</a> ordered built.</li></ul> <p><b>1866</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Red_Cloud%27s_War" title="Red Cloud's War">Red Cloud war</a> begins.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Jackson_Faulk" title="Andrew Jackson Faulk">Andrew J. Faulk</a> succeeds Newton Edmunds.</li> <li>Great affliction of grasshoppers. Crops eaten up.</li></ul> <p><b>1868</b> </p> <ul><li>Red Cloud war ends. <a href="/wiki/Great_Sioux_Reservation" title="Great Sioux Reservation">Great Sioux reservation</a> created by treaty.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treaty_of_Fort_Laramie_(1868)" title="Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)">Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1868</a></li></ul> <p><b>1869</b> </p> <ul><li>Faulk succeeded by <a href="/wiki/John_A._Burbank" title="John A. Burbank">John A. Burbank</a>. "Wild and woolly period." Great factional Moody-Brookings fight begins.<sup id="cite_ref-Robinson1904_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Robinson1904-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><b>1870</b> </p> <ul><li>Population of Dakota Territory below the 46th parallel north (the modern extent of South Dakota) is 11,776 and growing.<sup id="cite_ref-railroads_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-railroads-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><b>1872</b> </p> <ul><li>First railroad in South Dakota; Dakota Southern built from <a href="/wiki/Sioux_City,_Iowa" title="Sioux City, Iowa">Sioux City</a> to Yankton.</li></ul> <p><b>1873</b> </p> <ul><li>A land-grant railroad from <a href="/wiki/New_Ulm,_Minnesota" title="New Ulm, Minnesota">New Ulm, Minnesota</a>, to <a href="/wiki/Lake_Kampeska" title="Lake Kampeska">Lake Kampeska</a> near <a href="/wiki/Watertown,_South_Dakota" title="Watertown, South Dakota">Watertown</a> is finished. Named the Winona & St. Peter Railroad, this subsidiary of the <a href="/wiki/Chicago_and_North_Western" class="mw-redirect" title="Chicago and North Western">Chicago and North Western</a> built about 34.5 miles (55.5 km) of track in Dakota Territory. But lack of population meant that trains only ran to <a href="/wiki/Gary,_South_Dakota" title="Gary, South Dakota">Gary</a> on the Minnesota-Dakota border until population increase after 1878.<sup id="cite_ref-railroads_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-railroads-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Gen. <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Stanton_McCook" title="Edwin Stanton McCook">Edwin S. McCook</a>, secretary of Dakota Territory, shot and killed by Peter P. Wintermute, result of factional political fight.</li></ul> <p><b>1874</b> </p> <ul><li>Burbank succeeded by <a href="/wiki/John_L._Pennington" title="John L. Pennington">John L. Pennington</a>.</li> <li>Gold discovered in Black Hills. <a href="/wiki/Black_Hills_Expedition_(1874)" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Hills Expedition (1874)">General Custer's expedition to the Black Hills.</a></li> <li>Second invasion of grasshoppers.</li></ul> <p><b>1875</b> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Custerblackhills.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Custerblackhills.jpg/220px-Custerblackhills.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Custerblackhills.jpg/330px-Custerblackhills.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Custerblackhills.jpg/440px-Custerblackhills.jpg 2x" data-file-width="520" data-file-height="361" /></a><figcaption>Miners in the Black Hills</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Black Hills treaty commission fails. <a href="/wiki/Black_Hills_Gold_Rush" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Hills Gold Rush">Rush of miners to Custer</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>1876</b> </p> <ul><li>Gold discovered in Deadwood Gulch. Stampede from <a href="/wiki/Custer,_South_Dakota" title="Custer, South Dakota">Custer</a>. Miners establish law and order. The <a href="/wiki/Homestake_Mine_(South_Dakota)" title="Homestake Mine (South Dakota)">Homestake deposit</a> is discovered in <a href="/wiki/Lead,_South_Dakota" title="Lead, South Dakota">Lead</a>; it becomes the largest and deepest gold mine in North America.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Sioux_War_of_1876" title="Great Sioux War of 1876">Great Sioux war</a>. Battles of <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Rosebud" title="Battle of the Rosebud">Rosebud</a> and <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Little_Bighorn" title="Battle of the Little Bighorn">Little Big Horn</a>. <a href="/wiki/George_Armstrong_Custer" title="George Armstrong Custer">Custer</a>'s army destroyed.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Hills_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Hills War">Black Hills War</a>, 1876–1877</li> <li>Black Hills relinquished by Indians. All agency Sioux dismounted and disarmed.</li></ul> <p><b>1877</b> </p> <ul><li>Great Dakota boom begins.</li></ul> <p><b>1878</b> </p> <ul><li>William A. Howard succeeds Pennington.</li></ul> <p><b>1879</b> </p> <ul><li>Great boom waxes strong. Railroad building begins.</li></ul> <p><b>1880</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chicago_and_North_Western_Transportation_Company" title="Chicago and North Western Transportation Company">Chicago and Northwestern Railroad</a> builds to <a href="/wiki/Pierre,_South_Dakota" title="Pierre, South Dakota">Pierre</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Chicago,_Milwaukee,_St._Paul_and_Pacific_Railroad" class="mw-redirect" title="Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad">Milwaukee</a> reaches <a href="/wiki/Chamberlain,_South_Dakota" title="Chamberlain, South Dakota">Chamberlain</a>.</li> <li>Great October <a href="/wiki/Blizzard" title="Blizzard">blizzard</a>: subject of <a href="/wiki/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder" title="Laura Ingalls Wilder">Laura Ingalls Wilder</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Long_Winter_(novel)" title="The Long Winter (novel)">The Long Winter</a></i>.</li> <li>Governor Howard dies and is succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Nehemiah_G._Ordway" title="Nehemiah G. Ordway">Nehemiah G. Ordway</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>1881</b> </p> <ul><li>Awful floods on Big Sioux and Missouri.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spotted_Tail" title="Spotted Tail">Spotted Tail</a>, noted Brule Sioux, killed by jealous warrior.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yankton_College" title="Yankton College">Yankton College</a> established by Dr. Joseph Ward.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_South_Dakota%E2%80%93Springfield" title="University of South Dakota–Springfield">Springfield Normal</a> organized and supported with local donations rather than tax monies<sup id="cite_ref-springfield_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-springfield-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><b>1882</b> </p> <ul><li>Capital removed from Yankton to <a href="/wiki/Bismarck,_North_Dakota" title="Bismarck, North Dakota">Bismarck</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_South_Dakota" title="University of South Dakota">State University</a> established.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turtle_Mountain_Indian_Reservation" title="Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation">Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation</a> established.</li></ul> <p><b>1883</b> </p> <ul><li>Division and admission movement earnestly prosecuted to save school lands. First Sioux Falls constitutional convention.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huron_University" title="Huron University">Presbyterian University</a> opened at Pierre. Removed to <a href="/wiki/Huron,_South_Dakota" title="Huron, South Dakota">Huron</a> as Huron College, 1899.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Sioux_Falls" title="University of Sioux Falls">Sioux Falls College</a> founded.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Dakota_State_University" title="South Dakota State University">Agricultural College</a> founded at <a href="/wiki/Brookings,_South_Dakota" title="Brookings, South Dakota">Brookings</a>.</li> <li>Madison Normal School founded.</li></ul> <p><b>1884</b> </p> <ul><li>Ordway succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_A._Pierce" title="Gilbert A. Pierce">Gilbert A. Pierce</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redfield_College_(South_Dakota)" title="Redfield College (South Dakota)">Redfield College</a> founded.</li> <li>All Saints School for Young Ladies founded at Sioux Falls.</li></ul> <p><b>1885</b> </p> <ul><li>Second Sioux Falls constitutional convention. State officers and United States senators elected. Huron temporary capital.</li> <li>Spearfish Normal organized.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dakota_Wesleyan_University" title="Dakota Wesleyan University">Dakota Wesleyan University</a> established at <a href="/wiki/Mitchell,_South_Dakota" title="Mitchell, South Dakota">Mitchell</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>1887</b> </p> <ul><li>Pierce succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Louis_K._Church" title="Louis K. Church">Louis K. Church</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Dakota_School_of_Mines_and_Technology" title="South Dakota School of Mines and Technology">School of Mines</a> founded at <a href="/wiki/Rapid_City,_South_Dakota" title="Rapid City, South Dakota">Rapid City</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>1889</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1889" title="Enabling Act of 1889">Enabling Act of the United States Congress provides for division and admission of South and North Dakota</a> on November 2.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Mellette" title="Arthur C. Mellette">Arthur C. Mellette</a> succeeds Church.</li> <li>Third Sioux Falls constitutional convention.</li> <li>Lutheran Normal School founded at Sioux Falls.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augustana_College_(South_Dakota)" class="mw-redirect" title="Augustana College (South Dakota)">Augustana College</a> founded at <a href="/wiki/Canton,_South_Dakota" title="Canton, South Dakota">Canton</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pine_Ridge_Indian_Reservation" title="Pine Ridge Indian Reservation">Pine Ridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheyenne_River_Indian_Reservation" title="Cheyenne River Indian Reservation">Cheyenne River</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lower_Brule_Indian_Reservation" title="Lower Brule Indian Reservation">Lower Brule</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rosebud_Indian_Reservation" title="Rosebud Indian Reservation">Rosebud</a> (Upper Brule) Indian Reservations created from Great Sioux Reservation. <a href="/wiki/Lake_Traverse_Indian_Reservation" title="Lake Traverse Indian Reservation">Lake Traverse</a> (Sisseton) Reservation established.</li></ul> <p><b>1890</b> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sitting_Bull_by_D_F_Barry_ca_1883_Dakota_Territory.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Sitting_Bull_by_D_F_Barry_ca_1883_Dakota_Territory.jpg/220px-Sitting_Bull_by_D_F_Barry_ca_1883_Dakota_Territory.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="303" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Sitting_Bull_by_D_F_Barry_ca_1883_Dakota_Territory.jpg/330px-Sitting_Bull_by_D_F_Barry_ca_1883_Dakota_Territory.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/Sitting_Bull_by_D_F_Barry_ca_1883_Dakota_Territory.jpg/440px-Sitting_Bull_by_D_F_Barry_ca_1883_Dakota_Territory.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4572" data-file-height="6302" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Sitting_Bull" title="Sitting Bull">Sitting Bull</a>, a Hunkpapa Lakota leader, was one of the principal Sioux leaders.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Woundedkneescenedeadandhorses.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Woundedkneescenedeadandhorses.jpg/220px-Woundedkneescenedeadandhorses.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="161" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Woundedkneescenedeadandhorses.jpg/330px-Woundedkneescenedeadandhorses.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Woundedkneescenedeadandhorses.jpg/440px-Woundedkneescenedeadandhorses.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1468" data-file-height="1075" /></a><figcaption>View of canyon at Wounded Knee, dead horses and Lakota bodies are visible.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Opening of portion of Great Sioux reservation between White and <a href="/wiki/Cheyenne_River" title="Cheyenne River">Cheyenne</a> rivers.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghost_Dance_War" title="Ghost Dance War">Messiah war</a>. <a href="/wiki/Sitting_Bull" title="Sitting Bull">Sitting Bull</a> killed. <a href="/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre" title="Wounded Knee Massacre">Battle of Wounded Knee</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pine_Ridge_Campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="Pine Ridge Campaign">Pine Ridge Campaign</a>, 1890–1891</li> <li>Second year of alarming drought. Many settlers destitute.</li></ul> <p><b>1891</b> </p> <ul><li>Good conditions restored.</li></ul> <p><b>1895</b> </p> <ul><li>Walter W. Taylor, state treasurer, defaults for $367,000, and absconds. Returned and is convicted.</li> <li>Period of great depression and hard times.</li></ul> <p><b>1896</b> </p> <ul><li>The tide turns. Beginning of long period of prosperity.</li></ul> <p><b>1897</b> </p> <ul><li>Springfield Normal presented to the state to be a public educational institution<sup id="cite_ref-springfield_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-springfield-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><b>1898</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War">Spanish War</a>. First South Dakota Infantry sent to Philippines. Distinguished service there.</li></ul> <p><b>1899</b> </p> <ul><li>First South Dakota Infantry returns from Philippines crowned with glory. <a href="/wiki/William_McKinley" title="William McKinley">President McKinley</a> welcomes the regiment home.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="20th_century">20th century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_South_Dakota&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 20th century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>1901</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Northern_State_University" title="Northern State University">Northern Normal and Industrial School</a> opens at <a href="/wiki/Aberdeen,_South_Dakota" title="Aberdeen, South Dakota">Aberdeen</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>1903</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wind_Cave_National_Park" title="Wind Cave National Park">Wind Cave National Park</a> is established on January 9.</li></ul> <p><b>1904</b> </p> <ul><li>Opening of portion of Rosebud land brings unprecedented rush of <a href="/wiki/Homestead_Acts" title="Homestead Acts">homesteaders</a>. One hundred and six thousand persons apply for right to enter lands.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitchell,_South_Dakota" title="Mitchell, South Dakota">Mitchell</a> contests with <a href="/wiki/Pierre,_South_Dakota" title="Pierre, South Dakota">Pierre</a> for state capital. Pierre for third time successful.</li></ul> <p><b>1905</b> </p> <ul><li>Construction begins on the <a href="/wiki/South_Dakota_State_Capitol" title="South Dakota State Capitol">South Dakota State Capitol</a> building in Pierre.</li></ul> <p><b>1924</b> </p> <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Meridian_Highway_Bridge" title="Meridian Highway Bridge">Meridian Highway Bridge</a> connects Yankton with Nebraska and is the first permanent structure crossing the <a href="/wiki/Missouri_River" title="Missouri River">Missouri River</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>1927</b> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mount_Rushmore2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Mount_Rushmore2.jpg/220px-Mount_Rushmore2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Mount_Rushmore2.jpg/330px-Mount_Rushmore2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Mount_Rushmore2.jpg/440px-Mount_Rushmore2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2828" data-file-height="3762" /></a><figcaption>Construction of the Mount Rushmore monument</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gutzon_Borglum" title="Gutzon Borglum">Gutzon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Borglum" title="Lincoln Borglum">Lincoln</a> Borglum begin work on <a href="/wiki/Mount_Rushmore" title="Mount Rushmore">Mount Rushmore National Memorial</a>, completing the sculpture in 1941.</li></ul> <p><b>1933</b> </p> <ul><li>An <a href="/wiki/Dust_Bowl" title="Dust Bowl">extremely strong dust storm</a> strips topsoil.</li></ul> <p><b>1934</b> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dust_Storms,_%22One_of_South_Dakota%27s_Black_Blizzards,_1934%22_-_NARA_-_195304.tif" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Dust_Storms%2C_%22One_of_South_Dakota%27s_Black_Blizzards%2C_1934%22_-_NARA_-_195304.tif/lossy-page1-220px-Dust_Storms%2C_%22One_of_South_Dakota%27s_Black_Blizzards%2C_1934%22_-_NARA_-_195304.tif.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Dust_Storms%2C_%22One_of_South_Dakota%27s_Black_Blizzards%2C_1934%22_-_NARA_-_195304.tif/lossy-page1-330px-Dust_Storms%2C_%22One_of_South_Dakota%27s_Black_Blizzards%2C_1934%22_-_NARA_-_195304.tif.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Dust_Storms%2C_%22One_of_South_Dakota%27s_Black_Blizzards%2C_1934%22_-_NARA_-_195304.tif/lossy-page1-440px-Dust_Storms%2C_%22One_of_South_Dakota%27s_Black_Blizzards%2C_1934%22_-_NARA_-_195304.tif.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1250" /></a><figcaption>Dust Storms, "One of South Dakota's Black Blizzards, 1934"</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Great_Plains_Shelterbelt" title="Great Plains Shelterbelt">Shelterbelts of trees are established</a> in <a href="/wiki/East_River_(South_Dakota)" title="East River (South Dakota)">East River</a> to reduce erosion from dust storms.</li></ul> <p><b>1935</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Flandreau_Indian_Reservation" title="Flandreau Indian Reservation">Flandreau Indian Reservation</a> established per the <a href="/wiki/Indian_Reorganization_Act" title="Indian Reorganization Act">Indian Reorganization Act</a> of 1934.</li></ul> <p><b>1936</b> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dust_Bowl_-_Dallas,_South_Dakota_1936.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Dust_Bowl_-_Dallas%2C_South_Dakota_1936.jpg/220px-Dust_Bowl_-_Dallas%2C_South_Dakota_1936.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Dust_Bowl_-_Dallas%2C_South_Dakota_1936.jpg/330px-Dust_Bowl_-_Dallas%2C_South_Dakota_1936.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Dust_Bowl_-_Dallas%2C_South_Dakota_1936.jpg/440px-Dust_Bowl_-_Dallas%2C_South_Dakota_1936.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="1800" /></a><figcaption>Dust Bowl - Dallas, South Dakota 1936</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Following <a href="/wiki/1936_North_American_cold_wave" title="1936 North American cold wave">a severely cold winter</a>, a <a href="/wiki/1936_North_American_heat_wave" title="1936 North American heat wave">severe summer heat wave hits</a> South Dakota.</li></ul> <p><b>1938</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gladys_Pyle" title="Gladys Pyle">Gladys Pyle</a> becomes the first woman to serve as <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senator" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Senator">United States Senator</a> from South Dakota.</li> <li>Motorcycle enthusiasts convene at the first <a href="/wiki/Sturgis_Motorcycle_Rally" title="Sturgis Motorcycle Rally">Sturgis Motorcycle Rally</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>1946</b> </p> <ul><li>Work begins on the <a href="/wiki/Fort_Randall_Dam" title="Fort Randall Dam">Fort Randall Dam</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>1948</b> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pierre_South_Dakota.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Pierre_South_Dakota.jpg/220px-Pierre_South_Dakota.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Pierre_South_Dakota.jpg/330px-Pierre_South_Dakota.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Pierre_South_Dakota.jpg/440px-Pierre_South_Dakota.jpg 2x" data-file-width="639" data-file-height="423" /></a><figcaption>Oahe Dam from the International Space Station</figcaption></figure> <ul><li>Work begins on the <a href="/wiki/Oahe_Dam" title="Oahe Dam">Oahe Dam</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korczak_Ziolkowski" title="Korczak Ziolkowski">Korczak Ziolkowski</a> begins sculpting <a href="/wiki/Crazy_Horse_Memorial" title="Crazy Horse Memorial">Crazy Horse Memorial</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>1952</b> </p> <ul><li>Work begins on the <a href="/wiki/Gavins_Point_Dam" title="Gavins Point Dam">Gavins Point Dam</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>Late 1950s</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Interstate_90_in_South_Dakota" title="Interstate 90 in South Dakota">Interstate 90</a> is dedicated along the South Dakota-Minnesota border.<sup id="cite_ref-Highways1958_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Highways1958-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><b>1959</b> </p> <ul><li>Work begins on the <a href="/wiki/Big_Bend_Dam" title="Big Bend Dam">Big Bend Dam</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>1961</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Interstate_29_in_South_Dakota" title="Interstate 29 in South Dakota">Interstate 29</a> extends into South Dakota from Iowa. The interstate highway is connected to <a href="/wiki/Fargo,_North_Dakota" title="Fargo, North Dakota">Fargo</a> during the 1960s.</li></ul> <p><b>1972</b> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rapid_City_SD_wea00703.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Rapid_City_SD_wea00703.jpg/220px-Rapid_City_SD_wea00703.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="143" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Rapid_City_SD_wea00703.jpg/330px-Rapid_City_SD_wea00703.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Rapid_City_SD_wea00703.jpg/440px-Rapid_City_SD_wea00703.jpg 2x" data-file-width="700" data-file-height="456" /></a><figcaption>Cars jumbled together by the flood.</figcaption></figure> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1972_Black_Hills_flood" title="1972 Black Hills flood">Rapid Creek floods</a>, killing 238 people in Rapid City.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><b>1973</b> </p> <ul><li>Between February 27 and May 8, 200 Oglala Lakota and followers of the American Indian Movement <a href="/wiki/Wounded_Knee_incident" class="mw-redirect" title="Wounded Knee incident">occupy Wounded Knee</a> on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.</li></ul> <p><b>1978</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Badlands_National_Park" title="Badlands National Park">Badlands National Park</a> is established on November 10.</li></ul> <p><b>1980</b> </p> <ul><li>Significant abandonment of unprofitable rail lines in the state occurs.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><b>1981</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Citibank" title="Citibank">Citibank</a> moves its credit card operations from New York City to Sioux Falls, leading to significant expansion of the financial industry in the state.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p><b>1988</b> </p> <ul><li>A <a href="/wiki/1988%E2%80%9389_North_American_drought" class="mw-redirect" title="1988–89 North American drought">severe drought and dust storm closes schools</a> across the state.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="21st_century">21st century</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_South_Dakota&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 21st century"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>2002</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Judith_Meierhenry" title="Judith Meierhenry">Judith Meierhenry</a> becomes the first woman to serve as a <a href="/wiki/List_of_justices_of_the_South_Dakota_Supreme_Court" title="List of justices of the South Dakota Supreme Court">justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court</a>.</li> <li>The Homestake Gold Mine ceases operations.</li></ul> <p><b>2004</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stephanie_Herseth_Sandlin" title="Stephanie Herseth Sandlin">Stephanie Herseth Sandlin</a> becomes the first woman to serve as a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Representative" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Representative">United States Representative</a> from South Dakota.</li></ul> <p><b>2012</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sanford_Underground_Research_Facility" title="Sanford Underground Research Facility">An underground scientific research facility is the new tenant</a> of the old Homestake mine.</li></ul> <p><b>2013</b> </p> <ul><li>The October <a href="/wiki/October_2013_North_American_storm_complex" title="October 2013 North American storm complex"><i>Cattleman's Blizzard</i></a> kills thousands of livestock in <a href="/wiki/West_River_(South_Dakota)" title="West River (South Dakota)">West River</a>.</li></ul> <p><b>2019</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kristi_Noem" title="Kristi Noem">Kristi Noem</a> becomes the first woman to serve as <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_South_Dakota" title="Governor of South Dakota">Governor of South Dakota</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Timeline_of_South_Dakota&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output 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Dakota">Outline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_South_Dakota" title="List of cities in South Dakota">Cities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Climate_change_in_South_Dakota" title="Climate change in South Dakota">Climate change</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_people_from_South_Dakota" title="List of people from South Dakota">Famous South Dakotans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_South_Dakota" title="Geography of South Dakota">Geography</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Government_of_South_Dakota" title="Government of South Dakota">Government</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_congressional_delegations_from_South_Dakota" title="United States congressional delegations from South Dakota">Delegations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elections_in_South_Dakota" title="Elections in South Dakota">Elections</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/History_of_South_Dakota" title="History of South Dakota">History</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bibliography_of_South_Dakota_history" title="Bibliography of South Dakota history">Bibliography</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_South_Dakota_state_parks" title="List of South Dakota state parks">State Parks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_South_Dakota_state_symbols" title="List of South Dakota state symbols">Symbols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Tourist_attractions_in_South_Dakota" title="Category:Tourist attractions in South Dakota">Tourist attractions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_towns_in_South_Dakota" title="List of towns in South Dakota">Towns and villages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_townships_in_South_Dakota" title="List of townships in South Dakota">Townships</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transportation_in_South_Dakota" title="Transportation in South Dakota">Transportation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Society</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list 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universities</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gun_laws_in_South_Dakota" title="Gun laws in South Dakota">Gun laws</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_South_Dakota" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in South Dakota">LGBT rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/South_Dakota#Politics" title="South Dakota">Politics</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_regions_of_the_United_States#South_Dakota" title="List of regions of the United States">Regions</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Badlands_National_Park" title="Badlands National Park">Badlands</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Hills" title="Black Hills">Black Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coteau_des_Prairies" title="Coteau des Prairies">Coteau des Prairies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Missouri_Coteau" title="Missouri Coteau">Missouri Coteau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dissected_Till_Plains" title="Dissected Till Plains">Dissected Till Plains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drift_Prairie" title="Drift Prairie">Drift Prairie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_River_(South_Dakota)" title="East River (South Dakota)">East River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pine_Ridge_(region)" title="Pine Ridge (region)">Pine Ridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siouxland" title="Siouxland">Siouxland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_River_(South_Dakota)" title="West River (South Dakota)">West River</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_South_Dakota" title="List of cities in South Dakota">Larger incorporated places <br /> pop. over 5,000</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aberdeen,_South_Dakota" title="Aberdeen, South Dakota">Aberdeen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Belle_Fourche,_South_Dakota" title="Belle Fourche, South Dakota">Belle Fourche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Box_Elder,_South_Dakota" title="Box Elder, South Dakota">Box Elder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brandon,_South_Dakota" title="Brandon, South Dakota">Brandon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brookings,_South_Dakota" title="Brookings, South Dakota">Brookings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrisburg,_South_Dakota" title="Harrisburg, South Dakota">Harrisburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Huron,_South_Dakota" title="Huron, South Dakota">Huron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madison,_South_Dakota" title="Madison, South Dakota">Madison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitchell,_South_Dakota" title="Mitchell, South Dakota">Mitchell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre,_South_Dakota" title="Pierre, South Dakota">Pierre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rapid_City,_South_Dakota" title="Rapid City, South Dakota">Rapid City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sioux_Falls,_South_Dakota" title="Sioux Falls, South Dakota">Sioux Falls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spearfish,_South_Dakota" title="Spearfish, South Dakota">Spearfish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sturgis,_South_Dakota" title="Sturgis, South Dakota">Sturgis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tea,_South_Dakota" title="Tea, South Dakota">Tea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vermillion,_South_Dakota" title="Vermillion, South Dakota">Vermillion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Watertown,_South_Dakota" title="Watertown, South Dakota">Watertown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yankton,_South_Dakota" title="Yankton, South Dakota">Yankton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_South_Dakota" title="List of cities in South Dakota">Smaller incorporated places <br /> pop. 1,000 - 5,000</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aurora,_South_Dakota" title="Aurora, South Dakota">Aurora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baltic,_South_Dakota" title="Baltic, South Dakota">Baltic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beresford,_South_Dakota" title="Beresford, South Dakota">Beresford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Britton,_South_Dakota" title="Britton, South Dakota">Britton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canton,_South_Dakota" title="Canton, South Dakota">Canton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chamberlain,_South_Dakota" title="Chamberlain, South Dakota">Chamberlain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clark,_South_Dakota" title="Clark, South Dakota">Clark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clear_Lake,_South_Dakota" title="Clear Lake, South Dakota">Clear Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crooks,_South_Dakota" title="Crooks, South Dakota">Crooks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Custer,_South_Dakota" title="Custer, South Dakota">Custer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/De_Smet,_South_Dakota" title="De Smet, South Dakota">De Smet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deadwood,_South_Dakota" title="Deadwood, South Dakota">Deadwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dell_Rapids,_South_Dakota" title="Dell Rapids, South Dakota">Dell Rapids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eagle_Butte,_South_Dakota" title="Eagle Butte, South Dakota">Eagle Butte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elk_Point,_South_Dakota" title="Elk Point, South Dakota">Elk Point</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flandreau,_South_Dakota" title="Flandreau, South Dakota">Flandreau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Pierre,_South_Dakota" title="Fort Pierre, South Dakota">Fort Pierre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Freeman,_South_Dakota" title="Freeman, South Dakota">Freeman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garretson,_South_Dakota" title="Garretson, South Dakota">Garretson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gettysburg,_South_Dakota" title="Gettysburg, South Dakota">Gettysburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregory,_South_Dakota" title="Gregory, South Dakota">Gregory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Groton,_South_Dakota" title="Groton, South Dakota">Groton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hartford,_South_Dakota" title="Hartford, South Dakota">Hartford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hot_Springs,_South_Dakota" title="Hot Springs, South Dakota">Hot Springs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lead,_South_Dakota" title="Lead, South Dakota">Lead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lemmon,_South_Dakota" title="Lemmon, South Dakota">Lemmon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lennox,_South_Dakota" title="Lennox, South Dakota">Lennox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milbank,_South_Dakota" title="Milbank, South Dakota">Milbank</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miller,_South_Dakota" title="Miller, South Dakota">Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mission,_South_Dakota" title="Mission, South Dakota">Mission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mobridge,_South_Dakota" title="Mobridge, South Dakota">Mobridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Sioux_City,_South_Dakota" title="North Sioux City, South Dakota">North Sioux City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parker,_South_Dakota" title="Parker, South Dakota">Parker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parkston,_South_Dakota" title="Parkston, South Dakota">Parkston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Piedmont,_South_Dakota" title="Piedmont, South Dakota">Piedmont</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Platte,_South_Dakota" title="Platte, South Dakota">Platte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Redfield,_South_Dakota" title="Redfield, South Dakota">Redfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salem,_South_Dakota" title="Salem, South Dakota">Salem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sisseton,_South_Dakota" title="Sisseton, South Dakota">Sisseton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Springfield,_South_Dakota" title="Springfield, South Dakota">Springfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Summerset,_South_Dakota" title="Summerset, South Dakota">Summerset</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyndall,_South_Dakota" title="Tyndall, South Dakota">Tyndall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Volga,_South_Dakota" title="Volga, South Dakota">Volga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wagner,_South_Dakota" title="Wagner, South Dakota">Wagner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Webster,_South_Dakota" title="Webster, South Dakota">Webster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winner,_South_Dakota" title="Winner, South Dakota">Winner</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Census-designated_place" title="Census-designated place">Largest CDPs <br /> pop. over 1,000</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Blackhawk,_South_Dakota" title="Blackhawk, South Dakota">Blackhawk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colonial_Pine_Hills,_South_Dakota" title="Colonial Pine Hills, South Dakota">Colonial Pine Hills</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dakota_Dunes,_South_Dakota" title="Dakota Dunes, South Dakota">Dakota Dunes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fort_Thompson,_South_Dakota" title="Fort Thompson, South Dakota">Fort Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Green_Valley,_South_Dakota" title="Green Valley, South Dakota">Green Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Eagle_Butte,_South_Dakota" title="North Eagle Butte, South Dakota">North Eagle Butte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/North_Spearfish,_South_Dakota" title="North Spearfish, South Dakota">North Spearfish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oglala,_South_Dakota" title="Oglala, South Dakota">Oglala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pine_Ridge,_South_Dakota" title="Pine Ridge, South Dakota">Pine Ridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rapid_Valley,_South_Dakota" title="Rapid Valley, South Dakota">Rapid Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rosebud,_South_Dakota" title="Rosebud, South Dakota">Rosebud</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_South_Dakota" title="List of counties in South Dakota">Counties</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aurora_County,_South_Dakota" title="Aurora County, South Dakota">Aurora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beadle_County,_South_Dakota" title="Beadle County, South Dakota">Beadle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bennett_County,_South_Dakota" title="Bennett County, South Dakota">Bennett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bon_Homme_County,_South_Dakota" title="Bon Homme County, South Dakota">Bon Homme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brookings_County,_South_Dakota" title="Brookings County, South Dakota">Brookings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brown_County,_South_Dakota" title="Brown County, South Dakota">Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brule_County,_South_Dakota" title="Brule County, South Dakota">Brule</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buffalo_County,_South_Dakota" title="Buffalo County, South Dakota">Buffalo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Butte_County,_South_Dakota" title="Butte County, South Dakota">Butte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Campbell_County,_South_Dakota" title="Campbell County, South Dakota">Campbell</a></li> <li><a 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<li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_County,_South_Dakota" title="Douglas County, South Dakota">Douglas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmunds_County,_South_Dakota" title="Edmunds County, South Dakota">Edmunds</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_River_County,_South_Dakota" title="Fall River County, South Dakota">Fall River</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Faulk_County,_South_Dakota" title="Faulk County, South Dakota">Faulk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grant_County,_South_Dakota" title="Grant County, South Dakota">Grant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregory_County,_South_Dakota" title="Gregory County, South Dakota">Gregory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haakon_County,_South_Dakota" title="Haakon County, South Dakota">Haakon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hamlin_County,_South_Dakota" title="Hamlin County, South Dakota">Hamlin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hand_County,_South_Dakota" title="Hand County, South Dakota">Hand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hanson_County,_South_Dakota" title="Hanson County, South 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