2020年7月8日 · Read here to find out who named the park and why they chose the name. According to archaeological finds, people have been in and around the Badlands for as long as 12,000 years. Learn more about park arch here! The Dawes Act affected many Native American tribes. Learn how this law changed the lives of the Lakota who lived in the Badlands area.

Badlands National Park (Lakota: Makȟóšiča [3]) is a national park of the United States in southwestern South Dakota. The park protects 242,756 acres (379.3 sq mi; 982.4 km 2) [1] of sharply eroded buttes and pinnacles, along with the largest undisturbed mixed grass prairie in …

From homesteading in the mid-late 1800s to the establishment of a World War II gunnery range, Badlands has more than its share of history prior to its national park designation in 1978.

2020年12月8日 · Curious about the human history of Badlands National Park? Learn more about the history and culture embedded in the Badlands.

Stimulated in part by various individuals and groups, the South Dakota Legislature in 1909 petitioned the federal government to establish a township of Badlands as a national park. As read before both houses of Congress on March 16, 1909, the petition stated in part: