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6 unusual facts about Pine Ridge


Eugene Buechel

After another year of formation (tertianship) in Brooklyn, Ohio, Father Büchel returned to the Lakota in August 1907, first as a teacher at Holy Rosary Mission School in Pine Ridge, and then in 1908 as its superior for eight years.

Northern Cheyenne Exodus

Dull Knife agreed to fight no more if the great father in Washington would let his people live on Pine Ridge that now held Red Cloud and his tribe.

Pine Ridge, Mississippi

Pine Ridge is an Unincorporated Community in Adams County, Mississippi, United States.

Pine Ridge, Nebraska

Whiteclay, Nebraska, known to the U.S. Census Bureau as "Pine Ridge, Nebraska"

Pine Ridge, Oklahoma

There is also a winery east of Pine Ridge on the Ozark Trail (Woods and Waters Winery and Vineyard).

According to locals, the community got its name from the community of Pine Ridge, Arkansas that was the setting of the radio show Lum and Abner which aired from 1934-1952.



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Luther Standing Bear

Standing Bear interpreted and recruited students for Pratt at Pine Ridge, South Dakota, led the Carlisle Indian Band across the Brooklyn Bridge upon its opening ceremony on May 24, 1883, and served as a student intern for John Wanamaker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Porcupine Butte

It was near Porcupine Butte, on December 28, 1890 that Spotted Elks's band of Miniconjou, Lakota and members of the Hunkpapa Lakota band who joined them on their way to join Red Cloud at Pine Ridge, were intercepted by a detachment of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment.

Standing Silent Nation

Standing Silent Nation is a 2006 documentary film about Alex White Plume, an industrious resident of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation.

The Bashful Bachelor

Small town store owner Lum Edwards (Chester Lauck) in Pine Ridge has a thorn in his side because his partner in the Jot-em-Down general store, Abner Peabody (Norris Goff), has exchanged the store delivery car for a race track horse.

Whiteclay, Nebraska

In 2005, the state of Nebraska and President Cecilia Fire Thunder of the Pine Ridge reservation signed an agreement to allow Oglala tribal officers to enforce Nebraska laws in Whiteclay by deputizing them as Nebraska agents.