Tall Prairie Chicken Creek

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Tall Prairie Chicken Creek is a tributary of the Missouri River, located in Dewey County, South Dakota, United States, in the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. [1]

Tall Prairie Chicken Creek has the name of Tall Prairie Chicken, a member of the Sioux tribe. [2] The name possibly refers to a Miniconjou man named Xiyo-hanska (Tall Prairie Chicken) who signed the Agreement of 1877, a treaty which ceded Sioux territory to the U.S. government after the Great Sioux War of 1876. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tall Prairie Chicken Creek
  2. ↑ Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.3. University of South Dakota. p. 64.
  3. ↑ "Agreement with the Sioux, Arapaho, and Northern Cheyenne, 1876". treaties.okstate.edu. Retrieved 2024-07-18.

44°51′34″N100°41′22″W / 44.85944°N 100.68944°W / 44.85944; -100.68944


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