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Thunder Butte, in South Dakota, has featured prominently in my family's history since 1913. Also known as "Wakinyan Paha" to the Lakota, its religious and cultural significance to the Lakota goes back much further in time, still. Rising from the dry, rolling prairie grasslands in Ziebach County, in northwestern South Dakota, the butte is located on the
Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. From the top of the butte, you can see for miles in every direction. There are not many people here, although the land is alive with the memory of those who walked here before us. Taking in the quiet of the plains as they reach to the horizon, you can well imagine the way the world was before we were here, and what it may look like long after we have moved on.
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Mike Crowley
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April 19, 2006
Thunder Butte, July 2005
Thunder Butte, July 2005Here is recent picture of Thunder Butte that I found on the the website of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. The picture was taken probably close to dawn or dusk--based on the apparent lighting conditions.
--Mike Crowley
Mike Crowley Wednesday, April 19, 2006
