South Dakota Achieve history

The French continued to explore the area in the 18th century and sold it to the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

The first permanent American settlement was established at Fort Pierre by the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804.

1805 - Pierre Dorian conducts party of Sioux chiefs to St Louis.

1807 - Manuel Lisa undertakes trade with Indians at the head of the Missouri River.

1809 - Manuel Lisa of the St Louis Missouri Fur Company safely conducts Big White to his home in North Dakota.

1811 - Astorian party go up the Missouri River to Grand River, where they buy horses from Rees and go thence up Grand River toward Pacific.

1812 - General Clark sends Manuel Lisa to northern part of South Dakota, where he builds Fort Manuel, to control Indians along the Missouri River.

1815 -Teton Sioux sign treaty of friendship at portage des Sioux.

1817 - Joseph LaFramboise starts a fur trading post at the site of present day Fort Pierre.

1818 - Hazen Mooers set up fur trading post at Great Bend of Big Sioux (Flandreau.) Fort Tecumseh built at site of Fort Pierre, by Columbia Fur Company.

1823 - Arikara Indians attack a fur trading party led by a General Ashley.

1830 - Fort Tecumseh, later Fort Pierre, established as fur trade center.

1831 - The Yellowstone becomes the first steamboat to travel on the Missouri River in South Dakota.

1832 - Fort Pierre built to succeed Fort Tecumseh.

1837 - Great smallpox epidemic on Missouri River.

1840 - Fort Pierre visited by Fathers C. Hoecken and P. J. DeSmet and the Rev.

1845 - Father Ravoux visits Fort Vermillion.

1851 - Father DeSmet visits the Teton Sioux.

The 1856 expedition was a reconnaissance of the Missouri River intended to determine feasible sites for military posts.

1857 - The white influx into South Dakota receives a boost with the establishment of a settlement at the site of present day Sioux Falls.

1858 - The Yankton Sioux sign a treaty which cedes much of eastern South Dakota to the United States and opens the land for settlement.

Permanent settlements were set up at Vermillion and Yankton in 1859.

The Dakota Territory was created in 1861, when the estimated settler population was no greater than 1,000 and the Sioux population was no more than 25,000.

The war started in Minnesota with the Santee rising of 1862 and spread into Dakota.

1865 - The Edmunds Commission, headed by Governor Newton Edmunds, negotiated a series of treaties with the Indians in Dakota.

1866 - Red Cloud war begins.

Despite the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868), which guaranteed the Sioux peoples exclusive possession of the land west of the Missouri River, miners swarmed the area.

1872 - The Dakota Southern Railroad becomes the first railroad to operate in South Dakota, running from Vermillion to Sioux City, Iowa.

The road was completed to Yankton in 1873.

1874 - Rumors of gold and the need for military posts on the Great Sioux Reservation in the Black Hills area result in the Black Hills Expedition of Lt.

1876 - Whites continue to enter the area of the Great Sioux Reservation.

1877 - A treaty is signed that ends the Black Hills war and gives the Black Hills to the United States.

Since its beginning in 1880, South Dakota School for the Deaf has supported families with children who are deaf and hard of hearing.

In 1883, the university moved into Old Main, a public board was appointed to govern it, and the first academic unit — the College of Arts & Sciences — was established.

Nevertheless, the territory was incorporated into the union on November 2, 1889, along with North Dakota.

In the fall of 1890, the army moved west to force the Indians to stop performing the Ghost Dance.

1895 - In his opening address to the legislature on January 8, newly reelected governor Charles H. Sheldon praised outgoing treasurer Walter William Taylor for his efficiency, faithfulness, and the energy and zeal which he displayed in the management of the office of the treasury.

In 1898 South Dakota became the first state to adopt the referendum and initiative as electoral devices through which voters could express their wishes regarding government policy or proposed legislation.

1900 - The Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railroad reached the Missouri River at Evarts in northern South Dakota.

1906 - The Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railroad begins construction of its Pacific Coast Extension.

The land is formally opened in 1909.

1910 - The new capitol building in Pierre was opened for use.

Under Howard Simpson's leadership, SDSD's student population grew to 100 by 1916.

1927 - Gutzon Borglum begins work on the Mount Rushmore monument.

While he served at SDSD, a playground was constructed, repairs were made to the Myklebust Recreation Center roof, eight garages built in the 1940's were torn down, and a new front entrance was completed.

1941 - the 147th Field Artillery performs well at Fort Ord, prompting troops of the regular army 7th Infantry Division to talk about having the 147th assigned as the divisional artillery.

During his term, a Speech-Reading, Speech and Hearing Aid clinic (1942) gave no cost services to Sioux Falls residents.

1944 - The Pick-Sloan Plan for development of the Missouri River was passed by Congress.

1947 - In response to Indian requests for a monument similar to Mount Rushmore to honor Indian heroes, Korczak Ziolkowski began work on Crazy Horse Mountain in the Black Hills.

Children’s Care Hospital & School opened in 1952 as the private, non-profit “Crippled Children’s Hospital & School,” a citizens’ grass roots effort to provide rehabilitation and education to children recovering from polio.

The story for the former South Dakota Achieve began in 1958, when 11 families in Sioux Falls began to seek services for their children and others with intellectual disabilities, wanting them to have a chance at meaningful lives in their own community.

1962 - The electric generating station at the Oahe Dam is completed.

SDSD's Outreach program began in the late 1970's providing direct and non-direct services across the state.

1974 - As a result of the shortage of doctors in South Dakota, the legislature created a medical school for the University of South Dakota.

Special education laws were enacted in 1975, and schools started serving children with intellectual disabilities.

On October 3, 1979, 98 years and 288 days after the Dakota Territorial School for the Deaf started, the Berry Wright Educational Facility opened.

He is remembered as the superintendent during SDSD's centennial, which was celebrated in 1980.

October – November 1984, The Rushmore Beacon, Fall Issue Volume CIX No.

1986 - The Chicago & NorthWestern Railroad ended its long association with central South Dakota and the city of Pierre when the NorthWestern sold its line from Rapid City, South Dakota, to Winona, Minnesota to the L. B. Foster Company of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

The drought had its beginnings in the fall and winter of 1987, when rain and snow amounts were far below normal.

In August of 1989, Doctor Frank R. Turk, from Gallaudet University, was selected as superintendent.

December 1993, South Dakota Association for the Deaf (SDAD) and Communication Services for the Deaf (CSD) purchased the land and four buildings.

1995,The Rushmore Beacon, Summer issue Volume CIX No.

In the fall of 1997, a foundation, named “Friends of SDSD” was established with the help of Bernie Christianson of the South Dakota Community Foundation and Jim Shekleton of the South Dakota Board of Regents.

1999, The Rushmore Beacon, Summer Issue Volume CIX No.

2000, The Transcendent Territory: The Minds, Hearts and Hands Behind the Unique Deaf and Hard of Hearing Culture of South Dakota – Communication Services for the Deaf and Puthoff, Larry

In the fall of 2004, Doctor Maureen Schloss served as the interim superintendent and by December, 2004 was appointed superintendent of the South Dakota School for the Deaf.

2007 - National Science Foundation chose Homestake, former gold mine near Lead, as site for multipurpose deep underground science and engineering laboratory

In July 2008 SDSD, through a contractual agreement with the Brandon Valley School District, established an Auditory Oral educational program for students who are deaf and hard of hearing from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade.

In July 2009 SDSD, through a contractual agreement with the Harrisburg School District, established a Bilingual, American Sign Language and English, educational program for students who are deaf and hard of hearing from pre-kindergarten through high school.

In 2010, SDSD celebrated 130 years of service.