Dakota Life
Stories about interesting South Dakota people, places, and things. New episodes on TV and online the second Thursday of each month, September - June
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Greetings from Wessington Springs
Most cities shape the landscape they’re on, but in Wessington Springs it’s the other way around.
Native American Voices
Dakota Life episodes featuring South Dakota's Native American Communities
Dakota Life Detours Off the Beaten Path
Experience a world-class museum in Timber lake and take a peek at who makes those Wall Drug signs.
Dakota Life November 1999
We visit barns, sod house and one room schoolhouses across South Dakota.
Dakota Life Detours The Highline of the Black Hills
Join SDPB as we take a ride on the most scenic railway of the Black Hills and learn its history.
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Come with SDPB to Patriot Day, Box Elder's annual community celebration. -
Come with SDPB to see the planes of the South Dakota Air and Space Museum in Box Elder, South Dakota. -
Come with SDPB to tour and meet the people of Ellsworth Air Force Base. -
To highlight the upcoming episode of Dakota Life, we share about the town of Britton and its origins.
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SDPB visits the Marshall County for the Annual Amherst Pie Auction, a charity event with proceeds going to the American Cancer Society. -
Tena and Molly are sisters who grew up making lefse with their grandmothers, aunts, mother and cousins. SDPB visited the sisters in 2020 as they continued the tradition each Christmas season. -
River View Tree Farm near Canton has thousands of trees planted that will grow into a Christmas centerpiece over the next decade. SDPB visited the farm in 2020 to pick out the perfect tree.
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