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Badlands National Park
Site Index
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Did You Know?
To the Lakota, this harsh and desolate landscape was known as "mako sica," meaning “land bad." Early French trappers similarly described the area as “bad lands to travel across." Today, geologists consider all the places in the world with similar topography and formation badlands.
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Last Updated: July 31, 2006 at 17:29 EST |