South Dakota

A northern-Plains state of mixed European farm settlement and Far West ranching, South Dakota sits on lands taken from the Lakota, whose history runs through the Black Hills gold rush and the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre. Agriculture and tourism — Mount Rushmore and the Black Hills — anchor its economy. The Missouri River divides its farming east from its ranching west.

• Existed: 1817 CE – present
• Type: Entity
• Government: U.S. State
• Capital: Pierre