STRONGHOLD TABLE - The Badlands are never the same place twice. Changing light and shadows constantly shift across the rocky buttes and spires, making them appear flat and white one minute and ...

Near the northern tip of South Dakota’s Stronghold Table, where wind-whipped buffalo grass gives way to the Badlands’ chasms and pinnacles, stands a hogan hammered from plywood and chipboard.

A national monument since 1939, Badlands acquired the South (Stronghold) Unit in 1976, adding yet another dimension to the drama. This large stretch of land belongs to the Oglala, and one of their ...

And they're free, too. The Stronghold Unit of the Badlands is an isolated, less-accessible tract of 130,000 acres of rugged tables, buttes and spires located within the borders of the Pine Ridge ...

The Stronghold District’s tumultuous history extends beyond the Ghost Dances. During World War II, when Badlands was just a national monument, the U.S. Air Force seized 341,726 acres of Oglala ...