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The Cyclotron Float and Ernest Orlando Lawrence
The University of South Dakota (USD) Photography Collections contains hundreds of images depicting floats, bands, celebrities, politicians, and USD presidents during Dakota Day parades. In the 1950s elaborate Dakota Day floats constructed by fraternities, sororities, independent student groups, and clubs took considerable effort to build and used that year’s theme to convey a message, usually […]
Kyle Gruhn
Sep 11, 20232 min read
Poetry and the Lakota language
Contact the Archives and Special Collections to read this entire poem about a hummingbird by Milford E. Shields in Lakota (translation by Wallace Little Finger), English, and an unidentified language. Poem from collection Milford E. Shields, “The Hummingbird”.
Doris Peterson
Sep 6, 20231 min read
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