Dakota Pathways Related Resources
The related resources include additional videos for the students to watch, activity ideas, and more in-depth videos and blogs for background knowledge.
Activity Starters is a video series on SDPB.org designed for kids in PreK through 4th grade. In each episode, an animated character introduces a concept and an activity.
SDPB's Images of the Past offers a fresh look at historic images and documents from the places, people, and events of South Dakota.
Established in 1997, the South Dakota Historical Society Press produces books reflecting the rich and varied history of SD and the region. The Press preserves, researches, and promotes South Dakota's colorful culture and heritage.
Find a rich array of educational content from Oceti Sakowin: The People of the Seven Council Fires to documentaries like Lost Bird of Wounded Knee.
Local Heroes Includes personal stories about the Depression era and WWII to the 211th Engineering Company's recent tour in Afghanistan.
History 605 explores the history of South Dakota, the northern Great Plains, and the Midwest. South Dakota’s State Historian, Ben Jones, visits with guests about their books, museum exhibits and artifacts, and historic sites in the state and region.
Stories from across SD that focus on our state's history and rural culture. (Access additional stories below)
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With Mount Rushmore as a backdrop, President Dwight Eisenhower addressed the South Dakota Young Republicans League on June 11, 1953.
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From the late 1940s until the mid-1950s, WNAX radio in Yankton brought the experience of a South Dakota barn dance to listeners all over the upper Midwest.
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The Big Bend dam on the Missouri River near Fort Thompson, South Dakota, was the last-built of the six great Missouri River dams. This film, likely shown on tours at the dam, describes the dam's construction and purpose.
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A ski jump near Canton, South Dakota was used for national ski jumping events, including the 1932 Olympic trials.
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From the archives, he was the first Lakota to serve in the House of Representatives, Ben Reifel sits down with South Dakota Public Broadcasting.
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