South Dakota Cultural Heritage Center

South Dakota


Exhibits at this ecologically groundbreaking museum (it's completely underground) include a bloody Ghost Dance shirt from Wounded Knee. Exhibits trace the state's history from before European contact through to its role as a base for nuclear missiles and bombs during the Cold War.


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