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Circa 5000 BCE: Plains Archaic period begins with drier climate. 11th century BCE: The Woodland period begins in eastern South Dakota: the period between hunter-gatherers and agriculture that includes innovation in pottery, textiles, and tools. Climate improves to its modern state. Trade with farther cultures is common.
History of South Dakota. Pierre, SD: South Dakota State Historical Society Press. ISBN 0-9715171-3-4. Schwieder, Dorothy Hubbard. Growing Up with the Town: Family and Community on the Great Plains (2003) Memoir plus history of Presho, South Dakota, 1905 to the 1950s; a primary source. details; Thompson, Harry F., ed. (2009). A New South Dakota ...
South Dakota is the 17th-largest by area, but the fifth-least populous, and the fifth-least densely populated of the 50 United States. Pierre is the state capital, and Sioux Falls, with a population of about 213,900, [10] is South Dakota's most populous city. [11]
South Dakota – 40th state located in the Midwestern region of the United States. It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux American Indian tribes. South Dakota is the 17th most extensive, but the 5th least populous, and the 5th least densely populated of the 50 United States. Once the southern portion of the Dakota Territory, South Dakota ...
October 15, 1966. The Mount Rushmore National Memorial is a national memorial centered on a colossal sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore (Lakota: Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe, or Six Grandfathers) in the Black Hills near Keystone, South Dakota, United States. The sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, named it the Shrine of Democracy, [2] and ...
Dakota Territory was organized on March 2, 1861; [1] on November 2, 1889, it was split into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota. [2] The Constitution of South Dakota originally provided for the election of a governor and lieutenant governor every two years with no limits. A law passed in 1947 prohibited parties from nominating someone ...
Territory of Nebraska west of Missouri River, (1854–1861)-1867. Territory of Dakota, 1861-1889 [1] Land between the 43rd parallel north and Keya Paha River or Niobrara River was transferred to the State of Nebraska, 1882. State of South Dakota, since November 2, 1889 [2]
September 1, 1976. The South Dakota State Capitol is the state capitol building of the U.S. state of South Dakota. Housing the South Dakota State Legislature, it is located in the state capital of Pierre at 500 East Capitol Avenue. The building houses the offices of most state officials, including the Governor of South Dakota.