The Standing Rock Indian Reservation is a Lakota, Yanktonai and Dakota Indian reservation in North Dakota and South Dakota in the United States. The sixth-largest reservation in land area in the United States, it comprises all of Sioux County, North Dakota, and all of Corson County, South Dakota, plus slivers of northern Dewey County and Ziebach County in South Dakota, along their northern county lines at Highway 20.
The reservation has a land area of 9,251.2 square kilometers (3,571.9 sq mi) and a population of 8,250 as of the 2000 census. The largest communities on the reservation are Cannon Ball and McLaughlin. Other communities within the reservation include Bullhead, Fort Yates, Kenel, Little Eagle, McIntosh, Morristown, Porcupine, Selfridge, Solen, and Wakpala.
Read more about Standing Rock Indian Reservation: Background, University of North Dakota
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