How was South Dakota acquired by the USA?

The current-dollar gross state product of South Dakota was US$39.8 billion as of 2010, the fifth smallest total state output in the US. The per capita personal income was $38,865 in 2010, ranked 25th in the U.S., and 12.5% of the population was below the poverty line in 2008. read more

South Dakota In 1682, La Salle claimed for France all of the territory that drained into the Missisippi, which included present-day South Dakota. In 1762, France also gave to Spain its holdings west of the Missisippi, but in 1800, Napoleon forced the Spanish to return them. read more

A memorial to the Lakota leader Crazy Horse in South Dakota’s Black Hills is designed to be the largest statue in the world when it is completed. Dedicated by sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski and Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear on June 3, 1948, the mountain carving will extend 563 feet high and 641 feet long. read more