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    The Big Sioux River is a tributary of the Missouri River in eastern South Dakota and northwestern Iowa in the United States. It flows generally southwardly...
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    early 2024. The Sioux Falls metro area accounts for more than 30% of the state's population. Chartered in 1856 on the banks of the Big Sioux River, the city...
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    Sioux City (/suː/) is a city in Woodbury and Plymouth counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. The population was 85,797 in the 2020 census, making it the...
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    considered a part of the larger area known as Siouxland as it is within the Big Sioux River basin. As of the 2020 census, the MSA had a population of 276,730...
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    0; -96.4 Siouxland is a vernacular region that encompasses the entire Big Sioux River drainage basin in the U.S. states of South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska...
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    of the Big Sioux River, located in the southeastern South Dakota counties of Lake, Moody, and Minnehaha. It has a confluence with the Big Sioux in the...
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    across the rivers in Sioux City, Iowa. North Sioux City was incorporated in 1951. North Sioux City is bounded on the east by the Big Sioux River and on the...
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    The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin (/suː/ SOO; Dakota/Lakota: Očhéthi Šakówiŋ /oˈtʃʰeːtʰi ʃaˈkoːwĩ/) are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations people...
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    The park comprises over 128 acres just north of downtown, along the Big Sioux River. An average of 7,400 gallons of water fall 100 feet per second....
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    borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west; Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the east and...
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    Treaty of Traverse des Sioux, ceding lands west to the Big Sioux River. The Yankton Sioux claimed the land east of the Big Sioux River past the Pipestone...
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    Missouri River from Kansas City northward to Sioux City, Iowa, where it crosses and then parallels the Big Sioux River. For the northern third of the highway...
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    Okíčhize; c. 1785 - Autumn 1851) was a Dakota-born tribal chief of the Yankton Sioux Tribe. Little is known of War Eagle's early life in regard to his birthplace...
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  • were never realized; settlers further upriver, between the Floyd and Big Sioux rivers, met with more success. Theophile Bruguier, a French-Canadian fur...
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    north-northwest through the Omaha–Council Bluffs and the Sioux City areas. It exits the state by crossing the Big Sioux River into South Dakota. For its entire distance...
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  • Big Sioux Recreation Area is a South Dakota state recreation area in Minnehaha County, South Dakota in the United States. The recreation area is named...
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    Missouri River (redirect from The Big Muddy)
    and Nebraska and is joined by the James River from the north. At Sioux City the Big Sioux River comes in from the north, after which the Missouri forms the...
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    wide and follows the Big Sioux River through parts of the city. I-229 also has a business route that provides access to downtown Sioux Falls from the freeway...
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    of the Big Sioux River, about 144 miles (232 km) long, in southwestern Minnesota and northwestern Iowa in the United States. Via the Big Sioux and Missouri...
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    roads in the Territory: Mendota/Fort Snelling to the confluence of the Big Sioux River with the Missouri River; Point Douglas to Fort Ripley; Fort Ripley...
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    Dell Rapids, South Dakota (category Sioux Falls, South Dakota metropolitan area)
    with the Big Attractions." The city took its name from the Dells of the Wisconsin River, which were likened to the local rapids on the Big Sioux River....
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    Hawarden, Iowa (category Cities in Sioux County, Iowa)
    is a city in Sioux County, Iowa, United States. The population was 2,700 at the time of the 2020 census. It is located on the Big Sioux River. Hawarden...
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    Oglala (redirect from Oglala Sioux)
    previously called the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. However, many Oglala reject the term "Sioux" due to the hypothesis (among...
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    side of Sioux Center drains to the Floyd River. The western side drains to the Big Sioux River. The area within a ten-mile (16 km) radius of Sioux Center...
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    Minnehaha County, South Dakota (category Sioux Falls, South Dakota metropolitan area)
    Minnesota as well as the northern and western boundaries of Iowa. The Big Sioux River flows south-southeast through the east central part of the county...
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    South Dakota (/dəˈkoʊtə/ də-KOH-tə; Sioux: Dakȟóta itókaga, pronounced [daˈkˣota iˈtokaga]) is a landlocked state in the North Central region of the United...
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  • Thumbnail for Flag of Sioux Falls, South Dakota
    falls of the Big Sioux River. The blue color and the sun allude to the flag of South Dakota. The pinkish-red portion represents the Sioux Quartzite nearby...
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  • alphabetically. Mississippi River (Illinois, Wisconsin) Missouri River (Nebraska) Big Sioux River (South Dakota) Des Moines River (20 mi or 32 km of the boundary...
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    Canton, South Dakota (category Sioux Falls, South Dakota metropolitan area)
    Sioux Valley, providing an abundance of recreational activities with the Big Sioux River bordering the eastern side, Newton Hills State Park to the south...
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  • Thumbnail for Battle of Big Mound
    Battle of Big Mound was a United States Army victory in July 1863 over the Santee Sioux Indians allied with some Yankton, Yanktonai and Teton Sioux in Dakota...
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