On This Day in South Dakota History by Tennant Brad;

Author:Tennant, Brad;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2017-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

June 27, 2013

Mount Rushmore is the site of a naturalization ceremony sponsored by the Mount Rushmore Society and the National Park Service. At the ceremony, 158 individuals from fifty-eight countries took the oath to become U.S. citizens.

June 28, 1894

Congress approves a bill introduced by U.S. senator James Kyle designating the first Monday of each September as a national holiday, to be called Labor Day. Kyle first served as a Populist but later switched to the Republican Party.

June 29

1911

President William Howard Taft issues a proclamation further opening the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Reservations for non-Indian settlement.

2006

Cecilia Fire Thunder, the first woman elected to lead the Oglala Sioux Tribe, is impeached. Controversy surrounded Fire Thunder’s leadership when she openly opposed the state’s restrictions on abortions by proposing a health clinic for women of the Pine Ridge Reservation who might seek such medical procedures.

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