- Lieutenant Governor Of South Dakota
The Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota is the second-ranking member of the executive branch of South Dakota state government, and also serves as presiding officer of the South Dakota State Senate. The lieutenant governor succeeds to the officer of governor if the office becomes vacant, and may also serve as acting governor if the governor is incapacited or absent from the state. The current lieutenant governor is Dennis Daugaard. - Governor Of South Dakota
The Governor of South Dakota is the head of the executive branch of the government of South Dakota. The current governor is M. Michael Rounds, a Republican elected in 2002. - Morning Star
Morning Star was a great chief to the Northern Cheyenne people during the 19th century. He was noted for his active resistance to Western expansion and the Federal government. It is due to the courage and determination held by Morning Star and other Cheyenne leaders that the Northern Cheyenne still possess a homeland in their traditional country (present-day Montana). Although he was known as "Dull Knife" ("Motšêške Ôhnêxahpo") to local settlers, … - Tony Dakota
Tony Dakota was a child actor of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Two of Tony's best-known roles are as Clavo, the adopted nephew of Peter DeLuise's Doug Penhall on the hit TV show "21 Jump Street", and as Georgie Denborough, the younger brother of Jonathan Brandis who was the first victim of Tim Curry's Pennywise the Dancing Clown in Stephen King's "It". - Floyd Red Crow Westerman
Floyd Red Crow Westerman, born in 1936, is a Dakota musician, activist and actor born on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Sioux reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota. The elder Dakota in the late 20th century became a leading actor depicting Native Americans in American films and television. He is sometimes credited as "Floyd Crow Westerman". - Stephen Miller
Stephen Miller (January 17, 1816 - August 18, 1881) was an American Republican politician. He was the first Civil War veteran to serve as Governor of Minnesota. Born in Carroll Township, Pennsylvania, Stephen Miller established a series of successful businesses. Frail health prompted the Pennsylvania Dutch entrepreneur to leave home at age 42 and follow his friend Alexander Ramsey to Minnesota, where the climate reportedly was more congenial. - Charles Eastman
Dr. Charles Alexander Eastman (Sioux: "Ohiyesa, (pronounced Oh ee suh)", February 19 1858 - January 8 1939) was a Native American author, physician and reformer. He was active in politics and helped found the Boy Scouts of America. Ohiyesa was born on a reservation near Redwood Falls, Minnesota. He was the son of the Dakota Many Lightnings and his mixed-blood wife, Mary Nancy Eastman, who died at his birth. - Jacques Marquette
Father Jacques Marquette (June 10, 1637-May 18, 1675) and Louis Jolliet were the first Europeans to see and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River. Father Marquette was born in Laon, France, and joined the Society of Jesus at age seventeen. After working and teaching in France for several years, he was dispatched to Quebec in 1666 to preach to the Native Americans, where he showed great proficiency in the local languages, especially Huron. - Paula Gunn Allen
Paula Gunn Allen (born October 24, 1939) is a Native American poet, literary critic, activist, and novelist. Born Paula Marie Francis in Albuquerque, Allen grew up in Cubero, New Mexico, a Spanish-Mexican land grant village bordering the Laguna Pueblo reservation. Of mixed Laguna, Sioux, Scottish, and Lebanese-American descent, Allen has always most closely identified with the people among whom she spent her childhood and upbringing. - Vera Ralston
Vera Ralston (1919-February 9, 2003), was an American actress during the 1940s and 1950s. - Jason Upton
Jason Upton is an independent Christian worship leader who has a large underground following. He has been compared to Keith Green by many people and was popularized by his appearances at services in Lou Engle's movement The Call. Some feel that he is unorthodox in his approach and critical of mainstream Christianity at times. He is somewhat critical of highly structured church services and varying degrees of professionalism in the church. - Erik Eriksen
Erik Eriksen, was a Norwegian ice sea captain born in Lyngør, Norway. He later moved to Hammerfest, Norway. Eriksen discovered the island group Kong Karls Land outside of Spitsbergen in 1853 from a mountain on Edgeøya (Edge Island). Eriksen shored the island as the first on the 27. of July 1859. Further, Eriksen was the inventor of the grenade harpoon used in modern whaling. - Young Man Afraid Of His Horses
Young-Man-Afraid-Of-His-Horses ["Tasunkakokipapi"] (1830-1900), also translated as "His-Horses-Are-Afraid" and "They-Fear-Even-His-Horses", was a chief of the Oglala Sioux. Commonly misinterpreted, his name is meant to mean, roughly translated, … - James Owen Dorsey
James Owen Dorsey was an American ethnologist, linguist, and missionary who contributed to the description of the Dakota and other Siouan languages. - Jimmy Edwards
Jimmy Edwards (23 March 1920 - 7 July 1988). He was born in Barnes in Surrey and educated at St Paul's Cathedral Choir School and later at St. John's College, Cambridge. He was an English radio and television comedy actor, best known as Pa Glum in "Take It From Here" and as the headmaster 'Professor' James Edwards in "Whack-O!". Born James Keith O'Neill in Barnes, London, the son of a mathematics professor, … - Henry Benjamin Whipple
Henry Benjamin Whipple was the first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota. Born in Adams, N.Y., he was raised in the Presbyterian church but became an Episcopalian through the influence of his grandparents and his wife, Cornelia, whom he married in 1842. Whipple attended Oberlin College from 1838 - 1839 and worked in his father's business until he was admitted to holy orders in 1848. After ordination Whipple served parishes in Rome, N.Y. and Chicago, … - Arthur Lakes
Arthur Lakes (1844-1917) was a notable geologist, artist, writer, teacher and minister. He captured much of his geological and palaeontological field work in sketches and watercolours. He was a part-time professor at what later became the Colorado School of Mines. Having sent a fossilized vertebra specimen (from the Morrison Formation of Dakota, USA) to Othniel Charles Marsh, in 1877, he was then employed by Marsh to seek other discoveries, in the so-called Bone Wars. - Jean-Baptiste Faribault
Jean-Baptiste Faribault was a trader with the Indians and early settler in Minnesota. His father Barthélemy Faribault, a lawyer of Paris, France, settled in Canada towards the middle of the 18th century and served as military secretary to the French army in Canada. After the occupation of the country by the English he retired to private life in Berthier and he held the office of notary public. - Henry B. Whipple
Also referred to as "Straight Tongue" by the Dakota Indians because of his truthfulness and honesty in dealing with them, Henry B. Whipple was the first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, who warned before the Dakota uprising that the shabby treatment of the Dakota by traders and government agents would inevitably spark violence. In the aftermath of the conflict, he defied the anger of vengeful Minnesotans to defend Indian's taken prisoner. - Dakota Fanning
Dakota Fanning (born Hannah Dakota Fanning on February 23 1994) is an American actress. She is the older sister of Elle Fanning, also an actress. Dakota Fanning's breakthrough performance was in "I Am Sam" in 2001. As of 2007, her most well-known films have been "War of the Worlds" and "Charlotte's Web". She has won numerous awards, and is currently the youngest person ever to have been nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. - Gideon C. Moody
Gideon Curtis Moody (October 16, 1832 - March 17, 1904) was a United States Senator from South Dakota. Born in Cortland, New York, he attended the common schools and pursued an academic course. He studied law in Syracuse, New York and in 1852 moved to Indiana, gaining admission to the bar in 1853. He was appointed prosecuting attorney for Floyd County, Indiana in 1854. He was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives in 1861, … - Lawrence Taliaferro
Lawrence Taliaferro was an agent at Fort Snelling, Minnesota from 1820 through 1839. He partnered with Colonel Josiah Snelling to ensure peace and safety for the frontier outpost. Taliaferro's role was to mediate between the American Fur Company traders, the Ojibwe and Dakota Indians in the area, and United States interests. He had a difficult role, as evidenced by this quote in his diary: "How to get rid of me at this Post seems now the main object of Tom, Dick, … - Rick Arrington
Richard Cameron Arrington (born February 26, 1947 in Charlotte, North Carolina) is a former American football quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL. He played three seasons for the Eagles from 1970-1972. He attended the University of Tulsa and the University of Georgia. He is the father of current ESPN college football sideline reporter Jill Arrington. He is also the grandfather of Dakota and Elle Fanning. - Thomas J. Galbraith
Thomas J. Galbraith was an American politician. In 1857, he signed the Republican version of the Minnesota State Constitution. He served the 18th district in the Minnesota State Senate in 1861, living in Scott County at the time. In 1862, Galbraith was working as an agent for the Bureau of Indian Affairs at the Lower Sioux Agency, succeeding Joseph R. Brown in the post. On August 15, he was involved in a confrontation between some Dakota tribesmen, U.S. troops, … - Chief Mahaska
Mahaska, or White Cloud, (1784 - 1834) was a chief of the Native American Iowa tribe. Mahaska became chief at an early age after killing several enemy Dakota to avenge his father’s death. He was later imprisoned in St. Louis, Missouri for killing a French trader, before he escaped and led a raid against the Osage. Afterward, he decided that his father’s death was finally avenged, so he laid down his arms and adopted the lifestyle of the white settlers, … - Fielding Bradford Meek
Fielding Bradford Meek (December 10 1817 - December 22 1876) was an American geologist and paleontologist. The son of a lawyer, he was born in Madison, Indiana. In early life he was in business as a merchant, but his leisure hours were devoted to collecting fossils and studying the rocks of the neighborhood of Madison. Being unsuccessful in business he turned his whole attention to science, and in 1848 he gained employment on the U.S. Geological Survey in Iowa, … - Dakota Blue Richards
Dakota Blue Richards (born 11 April 1994) is an English actress from Brighton, most notable for her role as Lyra Belacqua in the upcoming film "His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass". She was chosen from 10,000 hopefuls who attended auditions in Cambridge, Oxford, Exeter and Kendal. Dakota went to the auditions in Cambridge under one condition that she wouldn't be too upset if she got passed over. - Dakota Staton
Dakota Staton (June 3, 1930-April 10, 2007), also known by the Muslim name Aliyah Rabia for a period, was an American jazz vocalist who found international acclaim with the 1957 No. 4 hit, "The Late, Late Show". - Dakota Johnson
Dakota Johnson (born October 4, 1989) is an American actress. She is the daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith and the granddaughter of Tippi Hedren. Her mother and father divorced in 1995 and her Mother has since remarried, to actor Antonio Banderas. Johnson was born in Taylor, Texas. She was voted Miss Golden Globe, 2006, and actually served as the first second-generation Miss Golden Globe in the Globes' history.. - Dakota Crosswhite
Dakota Crosswhite (born March 26 1989) is a beauty queen from Cedar Rapids, Iowa who will compete in the Miss Teen USA pageant in 2007. Crosswhite won the Miss Iowa Teen USA 2007 title on October 8, 2006. This was her second attempt at the title, as she placed fourth runner-up in the 2006 event. Her sister titleholder is Dani Reeves, Miss Iowa USA 2007, who also placed fourth runner-up in last year's competition. - Shivaune Christina
Shivaune Christina born in Melbourne, Australia in January 1980, to immigrant mother, a former ballerina of Irish descent, and entrepreunerial father of Anglo-Saxon heritage. She is middle child of three siblings and elder sister to fellow model and Australian personality Jacintha. - Louis Blanchette
Louis Blanchette (died 1793) was a French explorer who travelled to North America in the 18th Century. After exploring parts of Missouri, he is remembered for founding the city of St. Charles in 1769. According to "Hopewell's Legends of the Missouri and Mississippi": :In the year 1765, a Frenchman, called Blanchette Chasseur, animated by that love of adventure which characterizes all who have lived a roving and restless life, ascended the Missouri, … - Brian Locking
Brian Locking (born 22 December 1940, in Bedworth, Warwickshire, England) was the bass guitarist with The Shadows between 1962-1963. - Henry R. Pease
Henry Roberts Pease (February 19, 1835 - January 2, 1907) was a United States Senator from Mississippi. Born in Winsted, Connecticut, he received a normal-school training, engaged in teaching from 1848 to 1859, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1859 and commenced practice in Washington, … - George Barnes Grigsby
George Barnes Grigsby was a delegate to the United States House of Representatives from the Territory of Alaska. He was born in Sioux Falls, Dakota (now South Dakota) on December 2, 1874. He attended the public schools, the State University at Vermillion, South Dakota, and Sioux Falls University in South Dakota. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1896, and commenced practice in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. - Martin E. Conlan
Martin E. Conlan (1849 - September 20, 1892) was a Democratic state legislator in South Dakota. He lived in Alexandria, Hanson County for most of his life, but he was born in Raymond, Wisconsin, of Irish ancestry. He was educated in the public schools, and made his way to Dakota in 1880 where he went into the flour and feed business. Martin was also a real estate dealer and the owner of a gravel pit and several farms. - Mari Pajalahti
MC Mariko is one of two lead singers of Kwan. She has also acted in a Finnish TV soap opera called "Salatut elämät" in the role of Virpi Hurme from 1999 to 2000. In addition, she has played the lead role in the musical "Dakota". In 2007, Mariko was chosen to dance in season 2 of the Finnish version of Dancing with the Stars (Tanssii tähtien kanssa). Together with her partner Aleksi Seppänen, she went on to win the entire competition on April 22, 2007. - Robert "tree" Cody
Robert "Tree" Cody (b. Los Angeles, California) is an American performer of the Native American flute. He is also known as an actor, dancer, and educator, and has toured throughout the Americas, Europe, and East Asia. Robert "Tree" Cody is the adopted son of the late Iron Eyes Cody, who adopted Robert and his brother when they were both very young. He is of Dakota and Maricopa heritage and is an enrolled member of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. - John Lennon
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 - 8 December 1980), was an Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, singer, musician, graphic artist, author and political activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. Lennon and Paul McCartney formed a critically acclaimed and commercially successful partnership writing songs for The Beatles and other artists. Lennon, with his cynical edge and knack for introspection, and McCartney, … - Adam Vinatieri
Adam Matthew Vinatieri (born December 28, 1972 in Yankton, South Dakota) is an American football placekicker currently playing for the Indianapolis Colts. He is best known for his tenure with the New England Patriots from 1996 to 2005, during which he played in four Super Bowls, winning three of them. Vinatieri also won a championship following the 2006 NFL season with Indianapolis.
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