Standing Rock Indian Reservation

Standing Rock Indian Reservation

The Standing Rock Indian Reservation is a Lakota Indian reservation in North Dakota and South Dakota in the United States. It is the sixth-largest reservation in land area in the United States and comprises all of Sioux County, North Dakota and all of Corson County, South Dakota, plus extremely small slivers of northern Dewey County and Ziebach County in South Dakota, along their northern county lines at South Dakota State Highway 20. The reservation has a land area of 9,251.183 km² (3,571.902 sq mi) and a population of 8,250 as of the 2000 census. The largest communities on the reservation are Cannon Ball, North Dakota and McLaughlin, South Dakota.

Thunder Butte is a prominent physical landmark along the border between the Standing Rock reservation and the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.

Communities

*Bullhead, South Dakota
*Cannon Ball, North Dakota
*Fort Yates, North Dakota
*Little Eagle, South Dakota
*Kenel, South Dakota
*McLaughlin, South Dakota
*Wakpala, South Dakota
*Porcupine, North Dakota

References

* [http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DTTable?_bm=y&-context=dt&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-CHECK_SEARCH_RESULTS=N&-CONTEXT=dt&-mt_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_P001&-tree_id=4001&-all_geo_types=N&-redoLog=true&-transpose=N&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=25000US3970&-search_results=14000US46041940900&-format=&-fully_or_partially=N&-_lang=en&-show_geoid=Y Standing Rock Reservation, South Dakota/North Dakota] United States Census Bureau

External links

* [http://www.standingrock.org/ Standing Rock Website]


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