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on this page: headlines, standing rock related: badlands flickrgroup: [|North American Ecotourism] editing: [|USA]


 * South Dakota** is bordered to the north by North Dakota; to the south by Nebraska; to the east by Iowa and Minnesota; and to the west by Wyoming and Montana.

Headlines
[|One of nation’s oldest July 4 powwows] http://kikn.com/more-communities-hope-to-join-south-dakota-recognize-indigenous-peoples-day http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170516-the-family-out-sculpting-mount-rushmore

Spotlight: Standing Rock Indian Reservation
also see: nodapl http://standingrock.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_Rock_Indian_Reservation [|standing-rock-sioux-chairman-david-archambault-ii-suit-against-dakota] [|Media Release 08.24.16] http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/rewrite-the-protests-at-standing-rock-751440963846 http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-sej-north-dakota-pipeline-20160827-story.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/27/us/north-dakota-oil-pipeline-battle-whos-fighting-and-why.html http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/why-the-founder-of-standing-rock-sioux-camp-cant-forget-the-whitestone-massacre-20160903 [|Standing Rock Sioux Tribe - Facebook] media type="custom" key="28687692"

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Tourism Portals
[] - [|press releases] [] [|@southdakota]

Flickr Groups
[|Dakotas] [|North & South Dakota Photography]

Twitter
[|@southdakota] [|@SDGameFishParks] https://twitter.com/SDOutdoors https://twitter.com/RCJournal

Indigenous Tourism
http://standingrocktourism.com/mission http://standingrocktourism.com http://attatribal.com http://www.kiliradio.org http://www.oyatetourism.com http://home.comcast.net/~zebrec/TR_Tribal_Resources.htm http://www.sdtribalrelations.com/powwows.aspx http://www.travelsd.com/About-SD/Our-History/Plains-Indians/Powwows-and-Celebrations http://www.travelsd.com/About-SD/Our-History/Plains-Indians/Tribal-Casinos

Celebrations
South Dakota changed the second Monday in October from Columbus Day to [|Native Americans' Day] in 1990 to honor the indigenous people who suffered near-annihilation after Columbus arrived in the 'New' World.
 * Second Monday in October:** Native American Day

Crazy Horse Memorial
http://www.travelsd.com/Attractions/Crazy-Horse http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=south%20dakota%20crazy%20horse&l=cc&ss=0&ct=0&mt=all&w=all&adv=1 http://crazyhorsememorial.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Horse_Memorial http://www.npr.org/2013/01/01/167988928/the-slow-carving-of-the-crazy-horse-monument

Tribal National Park
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http://www.nativetimes.com/index.php/news/tribal/7287-oglala-sioux-move-closer-to-establishing-first-tribal-national-park http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-first-tribal-national-park/2013/06/23/47397efa-dc6d-11e2-9218-bc2ac7cd44e2_graphic.html http://www.nps.gov/badl/parkmgmt/planning.htm

Government
[] [] http://news.sd.gov http://gfp.sd.gov - [|@SDGameFishParks]

Wind Cave National Park
http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/parks/explorer/wica

Badlands National Park
25% of Badlands National Park is a designated wilderness area. Established in 1976, the Badlands Wilderness Area consists of 64,144 acres of the largest prairie wilderness in the United States [] [|Document takes Badlands' South Unit one step closer to tribal nat'l park status]

Mount Rushmore
75th anniversary https://www.mountrushmoresociety.com/125/75th-anniversary-landing.htm http://time.com/4508007/mount-rushmore-anniversary-photos/ http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a23605/75-years-mount-rushmore/ http://www.history.com/news/mount-rushmores-secret-chamber https://www.mtrushmorenationalmemorial.com http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/work-begins-on-mount-rushmore-sculptures-oct-4-1927-228974

Originally known to the [|Lakota] [|Sioux] as Six Grandfathers, the mountain was renamed after [|Charles E. Rushmore], a prominent [|New York] lawyer, during an expedition in 1885. - Wikipedia

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National Park [|http://www.nps.gov/moru/index.htm]

[|Best Hiking-Trail in the Mount Rushmore National Park] http://www.outsideonline.com/adventure-travel/escapes/go-list/Mount-Rushmore-by-the-Numbers.html

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 * Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge**

Rapid City
http://www.rcgov.org http://www.nativesunnews.today

Sioux Falls
https://www.siouxfalls.org https://www.siouxfalls.org/parks/bike.aspx

White River
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_River,_South_Dakota https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g54868-White_River_South_Dakota-Vacations.html

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Wikipedia
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Spotlight on Brule
http://www.brulerecords.com [] [|Lower Brule, South Dakota] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1TLchE6LcQ https://www.facebook.com/Brul%C3%A9-117563054967686 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz8TNz0IgAlcu9uEFEURlQ https://soundcloud.com/paul-laroche-569660085 https://www.periscope.tv/BadlandsNPS/1vAxRLjqqzDGl

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Photos
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