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Oglala Lakota County (known as Shannon County until May 2015) [2] is a county in southwestern South Dakota, United States. As of the 2020 census , the population was 13,672. [ 3 ] Oglala Lakota County does not have a functioning county seat ; Hot Springs in neighboring Fall River County serves as its administrative center. [ 1 ]
Oglala (Lakota: Oglála; [5] "he scatters his own") is a census-designated place (CDP) in West Oglala Lakota Unorganized Territory (civil township) equivalent, [6] Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 1,282 at the 2020 census. [7] Its location is in the northwest of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
A majority of the Oglala live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the eighth-largest Native American reservation in the United States. The Oglala are a federally recognized tribe whose official title is the Oglala Lakota Nation. It was previously called the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota.
The town of Whiteclay, Nebraska (just over the South Dakota-Nebraska border), previously had approximately 12 residents and four liquor stores, which sold over 4.9 million 12-ounce cans of beer in 2010 almost exclusively to Oglala Lakota from the reservation (nearly 170 cans per person). The Whiteclay liquor stores were shut down by the state ...
Pine Ridge (Lakota: wazíbló [4]) is a census-designated place (CDP) and the most populous community in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, United States. The population was 3,138 at the 2020 census. [5] It is the tribal headquarters of the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. [6]
Hot Springs in Fall River County serves as the administrative center for Oglala Lakota County. Winner in Tripp County serves as the administrative center for Todd County. [1] These are two of six counties in South Dakota which are entirely within an Indian reservation. (The other four counties are Bennett, Corson, Dewey, and Ziebach.)
Richard A. Wilson (April 29, 1934 – January 31, 1990) was elected chairman (also called president) of the Oglala Lakota of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he served from 1972–1976, following re-election in 1974.
Red Shirt Table is a table mountain in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, and part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The table, named after Chief Red Shirt is approximately 10 miles (16 km) long, generally extending in a north–south direction, and is located along the western boundary of Badlands National Park ...