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Once upon a time, so the Kiowa legend goes, seven sisters were playing with their brother when he suddenly turned into a bear. Fleeing, the girls scrambled onto a small rock and prayed. The rock started to grow, pushing them into the sky. While the bear clawed at the rock's sides, trying to get at the girls, the rock thrust them so high that they became the points of the Big Dipper. Rising 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourche River below, the formation became named (in various spellings) Mato Tipila, or "Bear Lodge." The site is sacred to the Lakota and other tribes native to the northern plains.
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AttractionsCrook County Museum & Art Gallery
309 Cleveland St.
Sundance, Wyoming 82729 Distance: 21.0 mi. (from destination center) Description: A sacred American Indian site, Devils Tower overlooks the Belle Fourche River at more than 1,200 feet. Prairie dogs roam the pine forests, woodlands, and grasslands that span 1,347 acres.... Read More
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Vore Buffalo Jump
North of I-90, one mile west of Wyoming/South Dakota border
Beulah, Wyoming Distance: 26.8 mi. (from destination center) Description: A natural sinkhole once used as a bison trap, the Vore Buffalo Jump was an important site for many Native American tribes. ... Read More
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High Plains Western Heritage Center
825 Heritage Dr.
Spearfish, South Dakota 57783 Distance: 45.4 mi. (from destination center) Description: The Old West is alive and well at High Plains Western Heritage Center, where a five-state regional... Read More
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