What the Lakota Said About the Black Hills Turned Out to Be Right

SUBSCRIBE for more:    / @thehollowcountry   EBOOK: https://wadehalloran.com/ - The Amateur Archivist's Handbook is a complete 128-page English e-book built around the habits that make local-history research more reliable. SUMMARY: The Black Hills hold a hole in the ground that exhales at seventy miles an hour. The Lakota named it for that, long before anyone measured why. This one covers the southern Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming: the Pahasapa limestone that swallows whole creeks, Wind Cave and Jewel Cave and the barometric measurements that show how little of them has ever been walked, the Race Track valley that circles the entire uplift, the eighteen seventy-four Custer expedition and what followed it, the Thoen Stone, the nineteen seventy-two flood, and the disappearances the terrain has never explained. It ends somewhere other than where the legend does. CHAPTERS: 0:00 The breathing hole 1:40 The Black Hills dome 3:24 A landscape that swallows water 4:15 Lakota names for the land 6:23 Treaty, gold, and abandonment 10:37 The deadly Black Hills flood 11:32 The search for Serenity Dennard 12:42 A pattern of disappearances 13:23 Measuring caves with wind 14:52 The land claim never settled 16:25 No Bigfoot required 17:13 The record was right SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: USGS, The Black Hills Hydrology Study: https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs04602/ USGS, Streamflow losses in the Black Hills of western South Dakota: https://www.usgs.gov/publications/str... USGS Professional Paper 877, The Black Hills-Rapid City flood of June 9-10, 1972: https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/pp877 National Weather Service, The Black Hills Flood of 1972: https://www.weather.gov/unr/1972-06-09 NPS, Wind Cave National Park Geologic Resources Inventory Report: https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Downlo... NPS, Jewel Cave, Cave Explorers: https://www.nps.gov/jeca/learn/nature... National Parks Traveler, A Tale Of Two Caves: https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org... USGS, Natural Entrance for Wind Cave: https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/nat... Tribal College Journal, Hinápxiŋ Ohúŋkaŋkaŋ: Ancient Stories of Emergence: https://tribalcollegejournal.org/hina... Black Hills Parks and Forests Association, Wind Cave: Lakota Significance and Cultural Heritage: https://blackhillsparks.org/wind-cave... Justia, United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians, 448 U.S. 371 (1980): https://supreme.justia.com/cases/fede... SDPB, United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians: https://listen.sdpb.org/arts-life/202... SDPB, In Sacred Motion: Five Years Ago, A Lakota Elder Beat The Establishment: https://www.sdpb.org/news-and-informa... South Dakota News Watch, the Serenity Dennard investigation: https://www.sdnewswatch.org/serenity-... Forum News Service, the Thoen Stone: https://www.postbulletin.com/news/the... South Dakota History, East River, West River Differences in South Dakota: https://www.sdhspress.com/journal/sou... Hollow Country takes one American region at a time and works through what the archives, the surveys and the court records actually say about it, rather than what the retellings say. Written and narrated by Wade Halloran.