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Stradling the South Dakota and North Dakota border, the Standing Rock Indian Reservation covers 2.3 million acres, stretching across endless prairie plains, rolling hills and buttes that border the Missouri River.
The sixth-largest Native American reservation in land area in the US, Standing Rock includes all of Sioux County, North Dakota, and all of Corson County, South Dakota, plus slivers of northern Dewey and Ziebach counties in South Dakota, along their northern county lines at Highway 20.
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Covering 2.3 million acres, the Standing Rock Indian Reservation is the fifth-largest reservation in the United States. It stretches across the expansive tallgrass plains, rolling hills and buttes that border the Missouri River.
The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation was greatly reduced through the Act of March 2, 1889, also known as the Dawes Act and the Allotment Act. This opened up the reservations throughout the United States to settlement by non-Indian entities, thus creating checker-boarded land ownership within the Standing Rock Reservation.
The Standing Rock Reservation was established in 1889 through an agreement between the United States government and the Great Sioux Nation. The reservation is located in North and South Dakota and is home to over 8,000 members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
Standing Rock Indian Reservation: Mobridge Cutting across America’s heartland, US‑83 remains a must-do long-distance byway—transnavigating this broad, odd nation without once grazing a conventional tourist destination.