South Dakota County

Shannon County, South Dakota

Pine Ridge - the Oglala Lakota Nation and Wounded Knee - from the Oglala Sioux Tribe's Pine Ridge Reservation (the Pine Ridge Reservation is the eighth largest in the United States by area and home to the Oglala Lakota Nation - one of the seven bands of the Lakota Sioux - whose warriors fought at the Little Bighorn, whose people endured the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, and whose sovereignty and cultural survival have defined one of the most significant ongoing stories in American indigenous history) to Wounded Knee (the site of the December 29, 1890 massacre of approximately 250-300 Lakota men, women, and children by the US 7th Cavalry - and the 1973 American Indian Movement occupation - Wounded Knee is the most historically resonant site on the Great Plains).

County Seat administered from Hot Springs
Founded 1875
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