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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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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.
Its county seat is Timber Lake. [2] The county was created in 1883 and organized in 1910. [3] It was named for William P. Dewey, [4] Territorial surveyor-general from 1873 to 1877. Almost the entire county lies in the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.