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- 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tahc'a Okute Wakpa
- ↑ William Bright (2004). Native American Placenames of the United States. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 460. ISBN 978-0-8061-3598-4.
- ↑ Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.3. University of South Dakota. p. 62.
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