Once the southern portion of the Dakota Territory, South Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889, simultaneously with North Dakota.

In 1861, the Dakota Territory was established by the United States government (this initially included North Dakota, South Dakota, and parts of Montana and Wyoming).

The Nebraska Territory included parts of the current states of Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana.

There is little tourism in North Dakota.

Large oil deposits were found in North Dakota.

Iowa is to the south, North Dakota and South Dakota are to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba are to the north.

It is named after the Lakota and Dakota Sioux Native American tribes.

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.

The Governor of South Dakota occupies the executive branch of the state government.

Climate North Dakota has a continental climate with hot summers and cold winters.

Media South Dakota's first newspaper, the Dakota Democrat , began publishing in Yankton in 1858.

This area covers parts, but not all, of the states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

She was taken as a captive to a Hidatsa village in present day North Dakota.

Railroads have played an important role in South Dakota transportation since the mid 19th century.

He is a spiritual leader for the Lakota Dakota Na kota Oyate, the great Sioux Nation.

History Humans have lived in what is today South Dakota for at least several thousand years.

South Dakota is one of seven states with only one seat in the US House of Representatives.

Layers deposited during the Pleistocene epoch, starting around two million years ago, cover most of eastern South Dakota.

South Dakota is divided into 35 legislative districts, with voters electing two representatives and one senator per district.

As of the 2000 census, South Dakota ranked fifth lowest in the nation in both population and population density.

Currie pointed out that a find in South Dakota preserved three Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons in close proximity to each other.

Between 500 AD and 800 AD, a semi nomadic people known as the Mound Builders lived in central and eastern South Dakota.

The Pine Ridge Reservation, the subject of today's slide show, is located about 75 miles southeast of the Black Hills in South Dakota.

In 2010, Google Energy made its first investment in a renewable energy project, putting 38.8 million into two wind farms in North Dakota.

It is the U.S. state capital whose namesake was most recently alive Joe Juneau died in 1899, a year after Otto von Bismarck (North Dakota).

Most of the movie was filmed on location in South Dakota, mainly on private ranches near Pierre and Rapid City, with a few scenes filmed in Wyoming.

And I said, So, imagine you're in a movie called 'Escape from Malibu' because all the beautiful people have moved to North Dakota, where it's clean and safe.

Wyoming is bordered on the north by Montana, on the east by South Dakota and Nebraska, on the south by Colorado, on the southwest by Utah, and on the west by Idaho.

Fine and performing arts North Dakota's major fine art museums and venues include the Chester Fritz Auditorium, Empire Arts Center, the Fargo Theatre, North Dakota Museum of Art, and the Plains Art Museum.

Fort Raymond was later replaced by Fort Lisa at the confluence of the Missouri and Yellowstone in North Dakota a second fort also called Fort Lisa was built downstream on the Missouri River in Nebraska.

Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by the Province of Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota.

Geography The state is bordered by South Dakota to the north Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, across the Missouri River Kansas to the south Colorado to the southwest and Wyoming to the west.

Our curiosity was palpable in our expressions, we visitors to this South Dakota field, as we pondered the patterns produced by the tops of rocks pressed into grass and soil, patterns tantalizingly organized and purposeful shapes of things that have been.

At the height of the encampment, indigenous leaders from countries like Guatemala and Mexico traveled to South Dakota to share their experiences and lessons from their movements. Indigenous leaders stressed that communities in the U.S. and throughout Latin America share the same struggles and enemies.