1. South Dakota
By Grace Lindsey

2. South Dakota Symbols

3. State Symbols State Bird=Chinese Ring-Necked Pheasant State Flag=
State Motto=Under God the People Rule
State Tree=Black Hills Spruce
State Flower=American Pasqueflower
State Animal=Coyote
State Fish=Walleye
State Gemstone=Fairburn agate
State Colors=Blue and Gold
State Mineral=Rose Quartz
State Grass=Western Wheat Grass
State Insect=Honeybee
State Song=Hail, South Dakota

4. Health, wealth, and beauty, That’s what makes her grand,
State Flag
State Bird
State Flower
State Song
Hail! South Dakota,
A great State of land,
Health, wealth, and beauty,
That’s what makes her grand,
She has her Black Hills,
And mines with gold so rare,
And with her scenery,
No state can compare
State Gemstone
State Mineral
State Insect
State Fish

5. Population, License Plate, And Quarter

6. Population Population- July 1st 2015= About 858,469 People in
South Dakota
Population-
1991=About
276,015 people
in South Dakota

7. License Plate and Quarter
License Plate And State Quarter Information
2B9 816
21G License Plate
4AA 656
Every License Plate has those numbers and letters and hyphens so every car can be identified because every car and car owner are different and for security reasons.
The State Quarter has Mount Rushmore on it because Mount Rushmore is a famous monument.

8. Major Attractions and What to do in South Dakota

9. Major Attractions
Some major attractions in South Dakota are Corn Palace, Mount Rushmore, Needle’s Eye, Wall Drug, Custer State Park, Crazy Horse, Badlands, and the Black Hills. Crazy Horse, Needle’s Eye, and Mount Rushmore are monuments. Crazy Horse is still being carved, Mount Rushmore is already carved, and Needles Eye has been done for a long time.

10. What to do in South Dakota
There are tons to do in South Dakota… -1880’s Train -Mount Rushmore -Crazy Horse -Custer Park -Horseback riding -Wall Drug -Hiking -Bad Lands -Black Hills -Zip lining -Spelunking(Cave exploring) -Museums(Wax, Dino, Reptile) -Bear Country -Laura Ingalls Wilder’s House and more -Fairs -Festivals

11. Bad Lands
=====Custer State Park=====
Black Hills
======The Corn Palace=====

12. The National Presidential Wax Museum

13. Borders and Famous People

14. Borders North Dakota on the north Minnesota and Iowa on the east
Nebraska on the south
Montana and Wyoming on the west

15. Famous People Crazy Horse Laura Ingalls Wilder Korczak Ziolkowski
Red Cloud-( ) 75 years old; Oglala Chief; Forced US Army troops to abandon forts and roads
Sitting Bull-(1834?-1890) about 56 years old; Born NEAR Grand River; Traveled with Buffalo Bills Wild West Show
Gall-(1840?-1894) about 54 years old; Born NEAR Moreau River; Helped influence his people to let government educate their kids
George Lee (Sparky) Anderson-( ) 76 years old; Led Cincinnati Reds to 2 world series; Born in Bridgewater;
Crazy Horse-(1849?-1957) About 108 years old; Died resisting arrest; Monument carving after him by a German man(Gutzon Borglum)
Laura Ingalls Wilder-( ) 90 years old; Wrote ‘Little House on the Prairie’ and 7 other ‘Little House’ books
Korczak Ziolkowski-( ) 73 years old; Worked on Mount Rushmore; Worked on Crazy Horse; Worked on Sitting Bull

16. Fun Facts

17. Fun Facts (AKA) Coyote State because coyotes roam the lands
Bison also roam the Great Plains
The state capital is Pierre since 1890 and still is now
The Bison were nearly extinct by the 1880’s
Nicknames are ‘Sun Shine State’ and ‘Coyote State’
Origin name for both North and South Dakota came from the Sioux Indians who named themselves ‘Dakota’, which means allies
Statehood-November 2nd, 1889 fortieth state

18. Fun Facts
Korczak Ziolkowski started to carve the BIG Crazy House monument on Thunderhead Mountain
Gutzon Borglum started to carve Mount Rushmore(George W., Thomas J., Abraham L., and Theodore R.) in 1927
Borglum died in 1941, so his son directed the project(Lincoln)
Korczak was working on Crazy Horse monument at Thunderhead Mountain which is 17 miles away from Mount Rushmore
Crazy Horse Monument- 563ft high x 641ft long

19. Governor And Natural Resources And Brief Geography

20. Governor Dennis Martin Daugaard 32nd Governor Age-63 years old
Born-June 11, 1953

21. Brief Geography
Hilly
Lots of mountains

22. Natural Resources
Gold- Soft yellow metallic chemical elements used especially in coins and jewelry
Petroleum- A raw oil that is obtained from wells in the ground and is the source of gasoline, kerosene, and fuel oils
Silver- $500,000 worth is mined each year

23. South Dakota, a wonderful place to go
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South Dakota, a wonderful place to go