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The lake is named for the 1874 Oahe Indian Mission. [3] Lake Oahe begins just north of Pierre, South Dakota and extends nearly as far north as Bismarck, North Dakota. Mobridge, South Dakota is located on the eastern shore of the central portion of the lake. Bridges over Lake Oahe include US Route 212 west of Gettysburg, South Dakota and US ...
The Oahe Dam (/ oʊ ˈ ɑː h iː /) is a large earthen dam on the Missouri River, just north of Pierre, South Dakota, United States.Begun in 1948 and opened in 1962, the dam creates Lake Oahe, the fourth-largest man-made reservoir in the United States.
A Bureau of Indian Affairs map of Indian reservations belonging to federally recognized tribes in the continental ... Red Lake Reservation: Minnesota: 5,896: 881.29 ...
The construction of main-stream dams also affected other Native American tribes living along the Missouri River on the Fort Berthold, Cheyenne River, Standing Rock, Crow Creek, and Lower Brule Indian reservations. The Garrison, Oahe, and Fort Randall dams created a reservoir that eliminated 90 percent of timber and 75 percent of wildlife on the ...
It flows east, through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation and joins the Missouri in Lake Oahe, approximately 2 mi (3 km) northwest of Mobridge. The lower 15 mi (24 km) of the river form an arm of the Lake Oahe reservoir. It is the northernmost of South Dakota's major West River streams: the Grand, Moreau, Cheyenne, Bad, and White.
The reservation covers almost all of Dewey and Ziebach counties in South Dakota. In addition, many small parcels of off-reservation trust land are located in Stanley, Haakon, and Meade counties. The total land area is 4,266.987 sq mi (11,051.447 km 2), making it the fourth-largest Indian reservation in land area in the
More than 200,000 acres (810 km 2) on the Standing Rock Reservation and the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota were flooded by the Oahe Dam alone. As of 2015, poverty remains a problem for the displaced populations in the Dakotas. They have sought compensation for their towns submerged under Lake Oahe, and the loss of traditional ways ...
Fort Yates is located on the western bank of Lake Oahe. According to the United States Census Bureau , the hamlet has a total area of 0.06 square miles (0.16 km 2 ), all land. [ 7 ] Fort Yates has a semiarid climate ( Köppen BSk ), with hot summers, cold and very dry winters (though sometimes moderated by chinook winds) and substantial diurnal ...