Badlands National Park in southwestern South Dakota is the ideal place if you want to step into an alien landscape. With its desert scenery and the largest undisturbed mixed-grass prairie in the country, its high popularity among visitors is not surprising. However, people don’t only come here to make the most of this stunning nature. If your interest lies in learning more about the indigenous people who lived in these lands for hundreds of years, one particular city in South Dakota should be at the top of your bucket list.

Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe still reside in the town of Pine Ridge, making it an ideal gateway to the South Unit, a section of Badlands National Park.

The city itself has a few sites worth visiting, such as the Pine Ridge Chamber of Commerce and Oglala Lakota C

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