NOUN
- mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming; sacred to the Sioux (whites settling in the Black Hills led to the Battle of Little Bighorn); site of Mount Rushmore
- mountains in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming
How To Use Black Hills In A Sentence
- Now all that surrounds us is a close crescent of dagger-edged, obsidian-black hills.
- geomorphological features of the Black Hills
- Engages Lapage, assures us that he Saw them in the Black hills where the Little Missouri river passes them, and that they were in every respect like our domestic Sheep, and like them the mail had lunated horns bent backwards and twisted. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
- The Black Hills are the eastern limit of the Ponderosa pine forests and about the only place you can find pristine patches of montane grasslands.
- In 1874 Custer led an expedition to investigate rumours of gold deposits in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
- For the first decades of the nineteenth century, the Lakotas raised their tepees along the Missouri River and its tributaries as far west as the Black Hills.
- In February of the following year the Sioux, under duress, relinquished their claim to the Black Hills.
- The town of Deadwood is cradled in a narrow gulch between pine-covered bluffs in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
- The Black Hills Playhouse presents musical, comedy and dramatic productions throughout the summer.
- This promised the Indians a permanent reservation of the forty million acres of land around the Black Hills and the right to hunt buffalo in unceded territory.
