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Subsequent treaties in the 1870s and 1880s broke this reservation up into several smaller reservations. The Cheyenne River Indian Reservation was created in 1889. [4] Chief Sitting Bull lived north of the Cheyenne River Reservation on the Grand River, which is the Standing Rock Reservation. In 1890, the United States became very concerned about ...
Colonel Nelson A. Miles led the 5th United States Infantry Regiment in the summer of 1876 from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, up the Missouri River on a paddlewheel boat from Yankton, South Dakota to the Yellowstone River, to help subdue the Sioux, and Cheyenne, who had claimed a major victory that summer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
The Cheyenne River (Lakota: Wakpá Wašté; "Good River" [2]), also written Chyone, [3] referring to the Cheyenne people who once lived there, [4] is a tributary of the Missouri River in the U.S. states of Wyoming and South Dakota. It is approximately 295 miles (475 km) long and drains an area of 24,240 square miles (62,800 km 2). [5]
Lake Oahe (/ oʊ ˈ w ɑː. h iː /) is a large reservoir behind the Oahe Dam on the Missouri River; it begins in central South Dakota and continues north into North Dakota in the United States. The lake has an area of 370,000 acres (1,500 km 2 ) and a maximum depth of 205 ft (62 m). [ 1 ]
The Moreau River flows eastward through the upper portion of the county, and Cherry Creek flows southeastward through the lower portion, draining the area into the Cheyenne River. The terrain is composed of semi-arid rolling hills interrupted by buttes and carved by drainages and gullies, partly devoted to agriculture and cattle. [ 6 ]
A South Dakota tribe is banning Gov. Kristi Noem from its reservation over her recent remarks about an "invasion" at the U.S.-Mexico border, in which she said she was considering sending razor ...
As of the census [11] of 2010, there were 1,318 people, 384 households, and 279 families living in the city. The population density was 1,126.5 inhabitants per square mile (434.9/km 2).
It rises near White Butte, south of Amidon in the badlands of Slope County. It flows ESE, north of Whetstone Butte, then east, north of the Cedar River National Grassland, forming the northern border of Sioux County and the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. It joins the Cannonball approximately 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Shields. [1]