The Badlands have supported humans for 11,000 years. The earliest were mammoth hunters-later followed by nomadic hunters who hunted bison. By the mid-eighteenth the Sioux or the Lakota came to dominate the region. They flourished for a hundred years but were followed by soldiers, miners, cattle farmers, and homesteaders who forever changed the face of the prairie. After 40 years of struggle, culminating in the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890, the Lakota were confined to reservations.
An excerpt from the Badlands National Park brochure
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