The history of South Dakota describes the history of the U.S. state of South Dakota over the course of several millennia, from its first inhabitants to the recent issues facing the state.
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“The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
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“In the far South the sun of autumn is passing
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He is singing and chanting the things that are part of him,
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His beard is of fire and his staff is a leaping flame.”
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