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West River (South Dakota)

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West River is the portion of the state of South Dakota located west of the Missouri River with well over one-half of the land area and between one-quarter and one-third of the population of the state. [1]

44 relations: Bennett County, South Dakota, Black Hills, Coal, Colorado, Conservatism, Dryland farming, East River (South Dakota), Ellsworth Air Force Base, George S. Mickelson, German Americans, Gold, Gold rush, Governor of South Dakota, Great Plains, Great Sioux Reservation, Immigration, Indian reservation, Indigenous peoples, Industrial mineral, Iowa, Iron ore, Kansas, Maize, Mining, Minnesota, Missouri River, Montana, Mountain states, Native Americans in the United States, Oglala Lakota, Pig, Poultry, Precious metal, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Ranch, Rapid City, South Dakota, Republican Party (United States), Scandinavia, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, South Dakota, South Dakota National Guard, Texas, Walter Dale Miller, Wheat.

Bennett County, South Dakota

Bennett County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Dakota.

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Black Hills

The Black Hills (Ȟe Sápa; Moʼȯhta-voʼhonáaeva; awaxaawi shiibisha) are a small and isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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Conservatism

Conservatism is a political and social philosophy promoting traditional social institutions in the context of culture and civilization.

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Dryland farming

Dryland farming and dry farming are agricultural techniques for non-irrigated cultivation of crops.

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East River (South Dakota)

The East River portion of South Dakota refers to the section of the state lying east of the Missouri River.

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Ellsworth Air Force Base

Ellsworth Air Force Base (AFB) is a United States Air Force base located about northeast of Rapid City, South Dakota, just north of the town of Box Elder.

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George S. Mickelson

George Speaker Mickelson (January 31, 1941April 19, 1993) was an American politician, Vietnam War veteran, and 28th Governor of South Dakota until his death in a plane crash near Dubuque, Iowa on April 19, 1993.

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German Americans

German Americans (Deutschamerikaner) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally.

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Gold rush

A gold rush is a new discovery of gold—sometimes accompanied by other precious metals and rare earth minerals—that brings an onrush of miners seeking their fortune.

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Governor of South Dakota

The Governor of South Dakota is the head of the executive branch of the government of the U.S. state of South Dakota.

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Great Plains

The Great Plains (sometimes simply "the Plains") is the broad expanse of flat land (a plain), much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland, that lies west of the Mississippi River tallgrass prairie in the United States and east of the Rocky Mountains in the U.S. and Canada.

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Great Sioux Reservation

The Great Sioux Reservation was the original area encompassing what are today the various Sioux Indian reservations in South Dakota and Nebraska.

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Immigration

Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign worker.

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Indian reservation

An Indian reservation is a legal designation for an area of land managed by a federally recognized Native American tribe under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs rather than the state governments of the United States in which they are physically located.

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Indigenous peoples

Indigenous peoples, also known as first peoples, aboriginal peoples or native peoples, are ethnic groups who are the pre-colonial original inhabitants of a given region, in contrast to groups that have settled, occupied or colonized the area more recently.

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Industrial mineral

Industrial resources (minerals) are geological materials which are mined for their commercial value, which are not fuel (fuel minerals or mineral fuels) and are not sources of metals (metallic minerals) but are used in the industries based on their physical and/or chemical properties.

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Iowa

Iowa is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri and Big Sioux rivers to the west.

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Iron ore

Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted.

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Kansas

Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States.

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Maize

Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.

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Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.

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Missouri River

The Missouri River is the longest river in North America.

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Montana

Montana is a state in the Northwestern United States.

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Mountain states

The Mountain States (also known as the Mountain West and the Interior West) form one of the nine geographic divisions of the United States that are officially recognized by the United States Census Bureau.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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Oglala Lakota

The Oglala Lakota or Oglala Sioux (pronounced, meaning "to scatter one's own" in Lakota language) are one of the seven subtribes of the Lakota people who, along with the Dakota, make up the Great Sioux Nation.

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Pig

A pig is any of the animals in the genus Sus, within the even-toed ungulate family Suidae.

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Poultry

Poultry are domesticated birds kept by humans for their eggs, their meat or their feathers.

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Precious metal

A precious metal is a rare, naturally occurring metallic chemical element of high economic value.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin (the only categories for ethnicity).

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Ranch

A ranch is an area of land, including various structures, given primarily to the practice of ranching, the practice of raising grazing livestock such as cattle or sheep for meat or wool.

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Rapid City, South Dakota

Rapid City (Mni Lúzahaŋ Otȟúŋwahe; "Swift Water City") is the second most populous city in South Dakota and the county seat of Pennington County.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural and linguistic ties.

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Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Sioux Falls (Lakota: Íŋyaŋ Okábleča Otȟúŋwahe; "Stone Shatter City") is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Dakota and the 145th-most populous city in the United States.

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South Dakota

South Dakota is a U.S. state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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South Dakota National Guard

The South Dakota National Guard is part of the South Dakota Department of Military & Veterans Affairs.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population.

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Walter Dale Miller

Walter Dale "Walt" Miller (October 5, 1925 – September 28, 2015) was an American politician with the Republican Party.

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Wheat

Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain which is a worldwide staple food.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_River_(South_Dakota)

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