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South Dakota History
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Great Plains state, South Dakota was named for the Dakota
division of the Sioux Indians, and is known as the Coyote State.
Admitted simultaneously with North Dakota after the Dakota
Territory was divided along the 46th parallel, South Dakota is
mainly a rural state. Today, just less than 10 percent of its
population is American Indian. South Dakota is known for two
monumental sculptures carved into the Black Hills--Mount
Rushmore, which honors presidents Washington, Jefferson,
Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt, and the Crazy Horse Monument,
still under construction, which honors the Oglala Sioux war
chief. The state flower is the pasqueflower, also called the May
Day flower; its blooming is one of the first signs of spring in
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