SOUTH DAKOTA HISTORY

HISTORICAL SOUTH DAKOTANS

• This man was born in western Nebraska in 1822.

• In 1878 he moved to the Pine Ridge Agency on the White Clay River.

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What is this building and who built it?

•One of this author’s books tells about the early days of De Smet, South Dakota.

•Who is she?

•Name some of her books.

• This man was one of the first South Dakotans to be named to the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.

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• This man was a professor of horticulture at SDSU for 42 years.

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• This Yankton Nakota woman’s name was Zitkala Sha, which means Red Bird.

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• This man was the Governor of SD from 1917-1921

• He was a U.S. Senator from 1921-1936.

• He raised almost $1,000,000 for the carving of Mount Rushmore.

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• This man was a Hunkpapa Lakota chief and medicine man.

• He helped defeat Custer at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

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• This man started the town of Yankton.

• He was the cousin of President Abraham Lincoln’s wife.

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• This Congressman convinced President Calvin Coolidge to use the Black Hills as his summer White House.

• He tried to locate the UN in the Black Hills.

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• This man was the head chief of the Sisseton-Whapeton Sioux.

• He helped his people make the transition to reservation living.

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Why does this South Dakotan have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?

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This man has been called the Father of Contemporary Indian Art. Who is he?

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• This man was the Chief of the Brule Sioux Tribe.

• His sister was married to Crazy Horse.

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• This woman is in the South Dakota Broadcasters’ Hall of Fame.

• She made the first South Dakota state flag.

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