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Black Hills

South Dakota landform, translating Lakhota pahá-sapa; supposedly so called because their densely forested flanks look dark from a distance.

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Definitions of Black Hills

Black Hills (n.)
mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming; sacred to the Sioux (whites settling in the Black Hills led to the Battle of Little Bighorn); site of Mount Rushmore;
Black Hills (n.)
mountains in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming;
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