Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota (99%)Nebraska (1%)

United States

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation shares 61 connections with 2978 other places across 13 topics, spanning Great Plains ecology, Indigenous history, and earth sciences. Located at the southern end of the Badlands, the reservation sits within a mixed grass prairie transition zone. Connections to the 7th Cavalry Regiment tie it to the Battle of Little Bighorn. The ground beneath it holds Pierre Shale deposits and Oligocene fossils from the Western Interior Seaway. In 1971, the Oglala Sioux Tribe founded Oglala Lakota College, a tribal institution offering four-year degrees.