| South Dakota is a midwestern state of the United | | | | Black Hills War (1876 to 1877), even though the |
| States. | | | | previous Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) had granted |
| The capital of South Dakota is Pierre, but the largest | | | | the hills to the Lakota Tribe in perpetuity. Partly as a |
| city in the state, by a rather considerably margin, is | | | | result of this controversy, a separate Crazy Horse |
| Sioux Falls, which has over 140,000 residents. Other | | | | Monument is currently under construction elsewhere in |
| cities in South Dakota include: Aberdeen, Brookings, | | | | South Dakota's Black Hills (and has been for some |
| Huron, Mithcell. Rapid City, Vermillion, Watertown and | | | | years now). |
| Yankton. | | | | Although the state's best known tourist attractions are |
| The state is best known as the location of Mount | | | | Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Monument, |
| Rushmore, which contains four giant sculptures of | | | | there are other attractions and places to see in South |
| American Presidents (George Washington, Thomas | | | | Dakota. For example, if you ever visit Box Elder, you |
| Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln). | | | | will want to check out the South Dakota Air and |
| Each of the sculptures is approximately 60 feet (18 | | | | Space Museum, which is home to a large number of |
| metres) high. It took 14 years (from 1927 and 1941) to | | | | aircraft, including B-29 and B-52 bombers. Another |
| create the sculptures, even though 400 workers were | | | | interesting place to visit is Wall Drug (in Wall), which is a |
| working on them. The sculpture is controversial with | | | | cowboy-themed mall, which has become famous, in |
| some Native Americans, because the land on which it | | | | large part, due to a quite incredible promotional |
| is built was seized by the United States during the | | | | campaign. |