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I'd like to see Target, Victoria's Secrets and Gap efforts in Social Media Marketing. Wonderful case-studies from IgniteSocialMedia though.
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Last week, I stumbled across Peter Kim's blog post titled, â€A List of Social Media Marketing Examplesâ€. Let me just add that this title should be revised to, "A MASSIVE list of Social Media Marketing Examplesâ€, because Peter has collected over 200 companies who are using social media, and provided links to the specific efforts. I truly appreciate his efforts, and have bookmarked it, printed it, and am thinking about tattooing it so that I can always have it on hand for reference.
Since I enjoy reviewing successful and unsuccessful social media marketing campaigns, I thought I'd get back on the blogging bandwagon by taking a look at 26 of these companies and providing my review on what the social media marketing effort is in detail, and how I think these efforts work for the company. (Perhaps when I feel more ambitious I'll set a goal to go through each of the 200, but I like setting goals that I can reach :-))
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- Animal Planet
- Best Western
- Clorox
- Del Monte
- ExxonMobil
- Fandango
- Graco
- HomeGoods
- Ikea
- Joffrey's
- Kraft
- Library of Congress
- Miller Brewing Co
- National Geographic
- OpenTable
- Patagonia
- Quicken
- Rubbermaid
- SELF Magazine
- Taco Bell
- United Kingdom Government
- Victoria's Secret
- WhirlPool
- Xerox
- Yoplait
- Zappos
Since this list came from my own alphabetical selection (and personal preferences), I thought I'd start this series off by asking for suggestions and replacements so that I'm covering the companies that you are most curious about. Feel free to look over Peter Kim's list here, and let me know the companies that you would like to see added to this list (and which company you'd like to replace it with - since I'm only reviewing 26!).
Look forward to hearing your input in the comments below!
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20 thoughts on "26 Social Media Marketing Examples in Detail"
Ejaz Asi
This series of marketing examples inspired me to start one of my own, focused on small business. Thank you, I give Ignite credit in my first blog post on the subject:)
I have a question: Do you contact the companies that you use in case studies like these? If so, how do you go about it...by email? Do you contact people in PR/marketing depts? I am working on a Twitter specific business series and my two attempts at contacting local businesses were ignored, or maybe lost...
Any suggestions are much appreciated!
Social media like blogging is becoming the best tool to promote. You get to advertise your site and products for FREE, which is I think why business and marketers are utilizing its capability.
Jamie Crager
Thank you for putting the list together.. great examples!
Fuad Ahasan Chowdhury
fantastic!! I was looking for something like this.
Jorge Barba
Hi Lisa,
I thought I'd update since I don't see this mentioned here. Mr. Kim setup a wiki at http://wiki.beingpeterkim.com/ which has over 15000 social media marketing examples which should keep us busy for awhile.
Hi Lisa, great list! Any of your case studies outside of the USA? I'm interested in international examples of social media.
Thanks for a very helpful post. I'm always looking for SM success stories and this is a great compiled list. Looking forward to your reviews on each.
What about National Geographic?
Wendy Soucie
As someone working in the B2B world with manufacturers and professional service and technical service firms. It would be nice to see some of those examples. On second thought, I will review Peter's list and pull off 26 that fit my criteria (if there are that many) and analyze them and let you know about my post. I can link back to yours when done.
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Great list, thanks
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Thanks a lot for putting this list together. Great work
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Thanks for pulling this altogether. Makes a really interesting post. I'm really enjoying your blog.............
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Nice article, Dave, and good comments so far. I agree with Andrew that brands like pharma may not be able to interact on social media the same way as other brands, they can still gain from listening to what people are saying.
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A new health scare erupted over soft drinks last night amid evidence they may cause serious cell damage. Research from a British university suggests a common preservative found in drinks such as Fanta and Pepsi Max has the ability to switch off vital parts of DNA.
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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) backs the use of sodium benzoate in the UK and it has been approved by the European Union but last night, MPs called for it to investigate urgently.
Norman Baker, the Liberal Democrat chair of Parliament's all-party environment group said: "Many additives are relatively new and their long-term impact cannot be certain. This preservative clearly needs to be investigated further by the FSA."
A review of sodium benzoate by the World Health Organisation in 2000 concluded that it was safe, but it noted that the available science supporting its safety was "limited".
Professor Piper, whose work has been funded by a government research council, said tests conducted by the US Food and Drug Administration were out of date.
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He advised parents to think carefully about buying drinks with preservatives until the quantities in products were proved safe by new tests. "My concern is for children who are drinking large amounts," he said.
Coca-Cola and Britvic's Pepsi Max and Diet Pepsi all contain sodium benzoate. Their makers and the British Soft Drinks Association said they entrusted the safety of additives to the Government.
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Religion is professed by almost all Haitians. According to the CIA World Factbook [1] the religious demographics of Haiti is as follows:
- 80% Roman Catholic
- 16% Protestant (10% Baptist, 4% Pentecostal, 1% Adventist, 1% other Christian)
- 3% other religion (Islam, Bahá'í Faith, Judaism, Buddhism)
- 1% no religion
The predominant denomination is Roman Catholicism.[2] Similar to the rest of Latin America, Haiti was colonized by Roman Catholic European powers such as the Spanish and the French. Following in this legacy, Catholicism was in the Haitian constitution as its official state religion until 1987.[2] Between 80 and 85% of Haitians are Catholics. Pope John Paul II visited Haiti in 1983. In a speech in the capital of Port-au-Prince, he criticized the government of Jean-Claude Duvalier. It is believed that the impact of this speech on the Catholic bureaucracy in Haiti contributed to his removal in 1986.
According to the Catholic Church in Haiti, the 10 dioceses of the 2 ecclesiastical provinces of Haiti include 251 parishes and about 1,500 Christian rural communities. The local clergy has 400 diocesan priests and 300 seminarians. There are also 1,300 religious missionary priests belonging to more than 70 religious order and fraternities. Vocations to the priesthood are plentiful.[3]
The Protestant population in Haiti is 16%. This includes Baptist 10%, Pentecostal 4%, Adventist 1%. There are other denominations as well.[4]
The Episcopal Diocese of Haiti[5] is the Anglican Communion diocese consisting of the entire territory of Haiti. It is part of Province 2 of the Episcopal Church (United States). Its cathedral, Holy Trinity (French: Cathédrale Sainte Trinité) located in the corner of Avenue Mgr. Guilloux and Rue Pavée in downtown Port-au-Prince, has been destroyed six times, including in the 2010 Haiti earthquake. It is the largest diocese in the Episcopal Church (United States), with 83,698 members reported in 2008.[6]
The New World Afro-diasporic religion of Vodou is also practiced. Vodou encompasses several different traditions, and consists of a mix encompassing African, European and indigenous Taíno religious elements. In this way, it is very similar to other Latin American syncretist movements, such as the Cuban Santería. It is more widespread in rural parts of the country, partly due to negative stigmas attached to its practice.
According to the CIA World factbook, about 50% of the population practices Vodou.[7] This figure is, however, contested. Note that this overlaps the practice of other religions.
There is a small Muslim community in Haiti, mainly residing in Port-au-Prince, Cap-Haitien and its surrounding suburbs. The history of Islam on the island of Hispaniola (which Haiti shares with the Dominican Republic) begins with the slavery in Haïti.
Many Muslims were imported as slaves to Haiti[citation needed]. Their Islamic heritage has persisted in the culture of native Haitians. In 2000, Nawoon Marcellus, a member of Fanmi Lavalas from San Raphael, became the first Muslim elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Haïti.
Bahá'í Faith[edit]
The Bahá'í Faith in Haiti begins with a mention by `Abdu'l-Bahá, then head of the religion, in 1916 as one of the island countries of the Caribbean being among the places Bahá'ís should take the religion to.[8] The first Bahá'í to visit Haiti was Leonora Armstrong in 1927.[9] After that others visited until Louis George Gregory visited in January 1937 and he mentions a small community of Bahá'ís operating in Haiti.[10] The first long term pioneers, Ruth and Ellsworth Blackwell, arrived in 1940.[11] Following their arrival the first Bahá'í Local Spiritual Assembly of Haiti was formed in 1942 in Port-au-Prince.[12] From 1951 the Haitian Bahá'ís participated in regional organizations of the religion[13] until 1961 when Haitian Bahá'ís elected their own National Spiritual Assembly[14] and soon took on goals reaching out into neighboring islands.[15] The Association of Religion Data Archives (relying mostly on the World Christian Encyclopedia) estimated some 21000 Bahá'ís in Haiti in 2005.[16]
There is a group of Judaism predominately residing in Port-au-Prince, where the community today meets at the home of businessman billionaire Gilbert Bigio, a Haitian of Syrian descent.[17] Bigio's father first settled in Haiti in 1925 and was active in the Jewish community. In November 1947, his father played a significant role in Haiti's support for the statehood of Israel in a vote to the United Nations.[18] Every Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, services are held at his residence. The last Jewish wedding to take place in Haiti occurred 10 years ago; Bigio's daughter, while the last bris was done for his son, more than 30 years ago. Bigio owns the only Torah in all of the country, which he provides to the community for services.[19]
- ^ https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ha.html CIA - The World Factbook -- Haiti
- ^ a b "Haiti". State.gov. 2007-09-14. Retrieved 2014-01-04.
- ^ Site Web Officiel de l'Eglise de Haïti - L'épiscopat
- ^ CIA Factbook
- ^ Eglise Episcopale D'Haiti
- ^ The Episcopal Church, Baptized Members by Province & Diocese: 1998-2008
- ^ The World Factbook
- ^ Abbas, `Abdu'l-Bahá; Mirza Ahmad Sohrab; trans. and comments (April 1919). Tablets, Instructions and Words of Explanation.
- ^ Universal House of Justice (1986). "In Memoriam". The Bahá'í World of the Bahá'í Era 136-140 (1979-1983). XVIII. Bahá'í World Centre. pp. 733–738. ISBN 0-85398-234-1. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
- ^ "Annual Report Inter-America Committee". Bahá'í News (109): p. 3–5. July 1937.
- ^ "InterAmerica Teaching". Bahá'í News (139): p. 4. October 1940.
- ^ "Supplement to Annual Report of the National Spiritual Assembly 1941-42". Bahá'í News (154): p. 11–12. July 1942.
- ^ "Central America, Mexico and the Antilles". Bahá'í News (247): p. 9–10. September 1951.
- ^ National Spiritual Assemblies Statistics, retrieved 2008-11-27
- ^ "Teaching Conference Held in Honduras". Bahá'í News (411): p. 1. June 1965.
- ^ "Most Baha'i Nations (2005)". QuickLists > Compare Nations > Religions >. The Association of Religion Data Archives. 2005. Retrieved 2010-01-30.
- ^ "Does Gilbert Bigio make Israel look good?". Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ "Haiti richest Man, Billionaire Gilbert Bigio". Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ The Virtual Jewish World: Haiti


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Eligibility - A child is eligible for Borrowed-Home services when the child is placed in a Child Placing Agency home and case management services are provided by CA.
CA only pays the private agency to maintain the foster care license and provide any related licensing services. This service also covers maintenance of a foster care license for foster parent guardianships in a private agency home.
Definition - Follow-up care services are case management services provided by the Child Placing Agency after the child has left the CPA foster home.
Eligibility - A child is eligible for Follow-Up Services when the child has moved out of Child Placing Agency foster care and returned home, in relative care, or in extended family/non-relative care and the private agency agrees to continue case management services to the child. Follow-up Services may be provided for up to six months.
Definition - Case aide services are used to meet supervision and monitoring requirements for children in foster care. Case Aide (case aide) Services are intended to augment supervision and activity plans for children whose behaviors or developmental needs cannot be managed in a foster home without additional assistance.
Case Aide Services must not be used when respite or childcare services are more appropriate.
Eligibility - Case Aide services are for children with behaviors that require intense one-on-one supervision.
Additional referral requirements related to specific services include:
Referral for Parent-Child Visits.
Requests/Referral for Intensive Case Management. (ICM)
If the referral for ICM is not complete, the social worker must immediately return the referral to the Child Placing Agency with the reason(s) it was not accepted.
When the social worker receives or makes a request for ICM services, the social worker must obtain supervisory approval and forward the ICM request to the Regional Gatekeeper within five (5) days.
The ICM Regional Gatekeeper will have an additional five (5) days, for a total of ten (10) working days to review and approve or deny the request.
If the request is denied, the ICM Regional Gatekeeper will return the request to the social worker with a statement citing the reason(s) for denial.
This approval process may be done via e-mail. The social worker must use the e-mail as the approval or denial of the request and document the activities in the case file.
The Regional Gatekeeper must track all requests and the decision of each request and reason for approval or denial.
The CA social worker is expected to monitor CPA placements in the following ways:
4532. Therapeutic Or Treatment Foster Care
45321. Service Definition
45322. Eligibility
Eligibility is determined, in accordance with regional procedures, following assessment of service and placement options.
45323. Procedures for Access
4533. Behavioral Rehabilitation Services
Approval: Jennifer Strus, Asst. Secretary
Effective Date: September 27, 1995
Revised Date: July 1, 2014
Sunset Review: June 30, 2018
Behavior Rehabilitation Services (BRS) is a temporary intensive wraparound support and treatment program for youth with high-level service needs. BRS is used to stabilize youth (in-home or out-of-home) and assist in achieving their permanent plan.
BRS services are intended to:
Forms and Tools
4534. Crisis Residential Center (CRC) Program
To ensure all CRC placements are a short-term, temporary placement option available on a 24-hour, 7 day-a-week basis to youth missing from home or care and youth in serious conflict with parents or guardians. Stays in CRC placements should only be as long as needed to transition the youth to parents, guardians, relatives, or other stable family. All CRC placements:
There are four types of CRC facilities utilized for placements.
45351. Definition
Prior to implementation of this policy and procedure, each Children's Administration region is responsible to define and implement the specific procedures required for identifying PPFPs, identifying children appropriate for placement with a PPFP, and making placements. The regional procedures shall be consistent with this, and other, CA policies and procedures.
45353. Services to the Child
45354. Services to Family of Origin
45355. Services to the Foster-Adoptive Family
4536. Sexually Aggressive Youth and Physically Assaultive/Aggressive Youth
45361. Sexually Aggressive Youth
45362. Physically Assaultive/Aggressive Youth
4537. Clothing Allowance For Children In Out-Of-Home Care
45371. Service Definition
A clothing allowance to supplement a child's clothing supply upon initial placement into out-of-home care or to meet special needs, not met with the standard clothing allowance, while the child remains in out-of-home care.
45372. Eligibility
45373. Procedures for Access
45374. Other Sources
Resource may be available for special clothing needs through local clothing banks and service organizations.
4538. Transportation
45381. Service Definition
Transportation activity related to making a placement, necessary during and to support the placement, preventing a placement, or returning a child/runaway that is a dependent in this state.
45382. Eligibility
45383. Procedures for Access
45384. Other Resources
4539. Inpatient Mental Health Treatment For Children
45391. Service Definition
45392. Eligibility
45393. Procedures for Access


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Browsing my local college website for some information I came across this part time course:
Part time course sheet : Appreciating Scottish Malt Whiskies
Who is the course for?
This course is for anyone over 18 who is interested in learning about and enjoying malt whiskies
What does the course aim to do?
To broaded knowledge of the subject, how to identify the different malts and introduce new flavours.
What will be covered?
An introduction to the regions of Scotland, including the Highlands and Islands, where malt whiskies are produced
a more in depth study of a few regions and some sampling from these areas
the different production methods
aroma and taste
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what is meant by single, double and blended
the social conventions associated with drinking whisky
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RFC to offer free ice cream July 6
Racers for Christ will once again offer free ice cream to racers and fans attending the Sunoco Race Fuels Money Trail E.T. race on Saturday, July 6.
The Rev. Greg Whedbee and MGR director of retail operations Shawn Brobst have teamed up for the free ice cream offer, which will be distributed from a trailer in the concession area. David Batchelor will be donating toppings for the ice cream.
You must have a ticket to get your ice cream. Rev. Whedbee will be handing them out in the staging lanes and the pits. One ticket per person, please.
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- a member of a pastoral people of the Eurasian steppes, who in the late 4th century a.d. began a course of alternating conflict and alliance with their Iranian and Germanic neighbors and the Roman Empire: they reached the height of their power in Europe under Attila in the 5th century, and then disappeared from history.
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Decibel readings at several restaurant.
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Plus, where the topless rooftop party at?
The owners of Patsy's take their cues from Bill's Bar and Burger and Five Napkin.
Thomas Keller will open an outpost of Bouchon Bakery with outdoor seating.
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Plus: Butter Lane expands, and a burrito-eating contest at Baja Fresh, in our daily roundup of neighborhood news.
And more, in our complete roundup of celebrity dining.
Plus: Record-holding St. Patrick's Day pub crawl this weekend, and a P.J. Hanley's pizza shop, in our daily roundup of neighborhood food news.
Another highly praised patty makes an uptown transfer.
The creator of 'Garbage Pail Kids' lends his talents to Bill's Bar and Burger.
Bill's Bar and Burger will be the largest independent burger restaurant in the country.
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Well it looks like the NBA is back everyone. Once everything is signed, sealed and delivered, the games and live betting will begin on Christmas day.
That means less than a month for teams to prepare and get the rust off. Hell, rust is not even the word. Players have not even been in the same city yet let alone thinking about practice.
Shortened seasons really test those who can adapt and break routines. Players and coaches have their routines and none of them include starting at the end of November.
Training camps and the free-agent market are scheduled to open Dec. 9. The regular season will begin Dec. 25. Exhibition games will probably be played from Dec. 17 to 24.
Yep, a week for exhibition games.
To make it simple, teams are going to be paired off and play two games against the same team. Rumour has it, it will be a team that is geographically friendly (sorry Portland).
The Toronto Raptors will most likely play the Detroit Pistons.
This short turnaround will likely result in some less than stellar basketball early on. Those Christmas day games will be ugly as players get their timing down and you know there will be a lot of guys sucking wind.
It actually is set up for the superstars to have big days because their talent will just take over. LeBron, Kobe, Rose…..look for them all to have high a high scoring game on Christmas.
As for the full regular season schedule. It is still being formulated and could be sent to teams for approval this week. It will probably not be released publicly until early next week. That is when teams will get to see what strong teams they get to avoid.
With a shortened schedule there will be winners and losers in terms of schedule strength. I personally hope the Raptors will have less road games against some of the Western powers.
We will see.
It will be a crap shoot for teams in the first few weeks. Anyone who can get on a hot run right off the bat could run away and hide and coast into the playoffs.
Injuries will be huge this year. Not only will be players be out of shape and prone to more injuries. Teams will have less time to recover if they lose one of the their stars.
A short NBA season certainly is not ideal. But it is going to be a lot of fun and keep the competition high. Most teams will be in the postseason hunt this year, which for fans, will be very exciting.
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Badlands National Park comprises 380 square miles at an elevation of 2,443 to 3,255 ft.
The backbone of the Park - the geological feature from which it derives its name - is a ridge, or "wall," that stretches 100 miles south into the Nebraska panhandle.
Formed by sedimentary deposits, this land was first set aside in 1929 as a National Monument. It 1939 President Franklin Roosevelt officially established Badlands National Park.
In 1976, the South Unit was added to the Park, bringing it to its present size of 244,300 acres.
During the late Cretaceous period, some 80 million years ago, the northern Great Plains were covered by an extensive sea. North America was located closer to the equator than it is now, and the climate was humid and tropical, supporting a variety of primitive creatures and vegetation. It was a time of tremendous sedimentary deposition, during which the Pierre Shale - the bottom rung of the Badlands geological ladder - was laid down. Deposited over a span of 20 million years, the layers of ocean slime were uplifted and drained by the same forces that raised the Rocky Mountains.
Later, the dried up lakebed was the stomping ground of ancient camels, three-toed horses, and sabertoothed tigers, whose remains continue to be uncovered by the elements.
Water is the main sculpting tool of the Badlands, the freeze-thaw cycle is also a contributor. The surface of the Badlands Wall wears away at a rate of as much as one inch a year. The Wall divides the upper, or northern, grasslands - those "above the Wall" - from those to the south. The latter, on average, are 200 ft lower in elevation.
Fossils are traces of prehistoric life, be they animal tracks, leaf impressions, shells, bones, or teeth. Only a few plants and animals become fossilized after they die. Usually they decay into the earth. Rapid burial is necessary for fossilization to occur. Sediments buried these remains deep. Ground water seeping through the sediments deposited calcium and silica in the spaces within the organism, fossilizing it. Fossils in the park date from about 38 million to 25 million years ago, during the so-called Age of the Mammals. Dinosaurs, which lived in an earlier era, are not found in the park.
A common fossil in Badlands is the stylemys, or turtle. The Pierre Shale has yielded many sea-turtle fossils. Oreodontas, which may have looked like pigs but which chewed cud like a cow, wandered around in large herds.
The mesohippus was herbivorous horse about 20 inches high. It first appeared some 58 million years ago. It had four toes on the front feet, and three on the hind feet. 25 million years later, each foot had just three toes, the largest being in the middle, suggesting the formation of a hoof. The mesohippus died out long before the Spanish reintroduced the horse to this continent in the sixteenth century.
Other fossils include remains of an ancestor of the camel; the saber-toothed cat; and the protoceras, a sheeplike creature that had three pairs of horns sticking out on its face and head at different angles.
After being almost exterminated by white hunters in the nineteenth century, the buffalo (bison) has returned to the Badlands. A small herd was reintroduced in the Sage Creek Basin in 1963; within 24 years it had increased to more than 450 animals.
Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep, coyote, mule deer, prairie dogs and other various rodents are found within the Park. The only poisonous snake in the park is the prairie rattlesnake. It is brown, with diamond-shaped marking on its back.
The exact time of the entry of humans into the Badlands in unknown. More than 80 archaeological sites have been located within the park boundaries, the oldest dating back 7,000 years. Radiocarbon tests indicate that fire pits in the Pinnacles area were used around AD 9000. A hundred years later, nomadic tribes roamed the territory. Primarily hunters and gatherers, they belonged to the Caddoan, Athapaskan, Kiowa, and Shoshonean linguistic groups.
The preeminent Native American in the Badlands in historical times have been the Dakota, more commonly called the Sioux. When Columbus first arrived in the New World, the Sioux were living in what is now North Carolina. A migration that lasted almost 300 years took them from North Carolina through present-day West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin, to Minnesota. There they came up against the Chippewa. Supplied with guns by French traders, the Chippewa drove the Sioux west and south onto the Great Plains. In the late 1700s, the Sioux acquired horses. Their culture changed dramatically, and they became fierce warriors.
A division of the Sioux Nation, the Teton, first crossed the Missouri River about 1775. They chased away the Spanish and French traders and displaced the Arikaree. In 1804 the explorers in the first Lewis and Clark Expedition had a tense encounter with the Teton near the site of Pierre, South Dakota. The Teton sought to prevent the expedition from proceeding up the Missouri River, but they relented when the Americans threatened to use force.
By 1840, the Sioux were the masters of the northern Great Plains, dominating the territory from the Canadian border to the Platte River, and from the eastern Dakotas to the Rocky Mountains. The Oglala Sioux, a branch of the Teton division, hunted buffalo and antelope throughout the Badlands. When the whites first invaded the Dakotas, the Sioux fought back, led by warriors like Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, and Crazy Horse. In the late 1880s, the Sioux embraced the religious movement called the Ghost Dance, which promised that the buffalo would return and that the white Americans would disappear. The Sioux danced without interference in remote strongholds within the Badlands. Faced with growing militancy by the Sioux, U.S. Army troops entered the area. In 1890 Chief Big Foot and his band passed through the present-day park and were detained at Wounded Knee, just to the south. Tension led to shooting, and Big Foot and more than 150 of his followers were killed.
Fur trapper and mountain man Jedadiah Smith led an expedition through the Badlands in 1823. Although Smith had been preceded by French Canadian trappers, his was the first recorded trip, and due to the lack of potable water, it nearly ended in disaster. Twenty years later, Alexander Culbertson, chief agent for the American Fur Company, collected several wagonloads of fossilized bones and teeth in the Badlands and shipped them back east to the Smithsonian Institution. In 1849, a scientific party under John Evans was sent to the Badlands by the federal government to collect more fossil specimens.
Texas cattlemen, attracted by federal government leasing of Indian lands in the 1880s, drove huge herds up to the Dakotas. In 1890, President Benjamin Harrison signed a proclamation that took more lands away from the Sioux and opened the Badlands to homesteading. Settlers, brought by railroad, arrived in large numbers; by the first decade of the nineteenth century, sod huts and dugouts dotted every section of western South Dakota. Heavy plowing took away topsoil, and the droughts of 1911 and of the 1930s forced many farmers to abandon their lands.
Badlands National Monument was established in 1929. In 1976, the South Unit was added to the existing park. While this section is still owned by the Oglala Sioux, it is administered by the National Park Service.
Big Badlands Overlook provides one of the best views of The Wall from above. The characteristic terraced cliffs of the badlands drop down to the lower prairie, and the White River.
Mako (land) sica (bad), is the expression the Indians used to describe this area that makes up the White River Badlands of South Dakota; the French, on the other hand, called the same area mauvaise terres, literally translated as "bad lands." So, maybe it isn't too surprising that after taking control of the area, the U.S. Federal Government opted for the highly descriptive name of "The Badlands." In developing this area, the government aimed to preserve and restore the animal and plant life that is native to this area.
Windows Overlook The windows" for which this overlook is named are the notches which have eroded out of the top of the cliffs. This overlook also serves as the trail head for three short nature trails - the Door, Window, and Notch Trails.
Cedar Pass is named for the few Rocky Mountain juniper trees, often mistakenly called Cedar, in the vicinity. Except for the occasional ponderosa pine, it is the only evergreen in the Badlands. It attains a height of 20 ft; the scaly bark, mixed with herbs, is known as kinnikinnick, the "tobacco" that the Sioux smoke in their ceremonial pipes.
Cliff Shelf was created many years ago, when a giant block of stone fell from the surrounding cliffs, creating this relatively flat shelf. The impact of the fall, compacted the stone, making it less porous and allowing water to collect here. The resulting vegetation makes this an oasis in the otherwise barren wall.
Cedar Pass Lodge and Visitors Center sit on the floor of the lower prairie. The Visitors Center contains various exhibits which provide a good introduction to the park's history and geology. Near the Visitors Center The Wall towers up to 150 ft above the upper grasslands and up to 450 ft above the lower grasslands. From this point, the road first descends into the lower prairieland and then begins a gradual climb back up the Badlands Wall.
Big Foot Pass is so named because, it was through this natural opening that the Indian chief, Big Foot, led his band of 400 warriors, eluding the United States soldiers who had thought that every possible pass was guarded. John J. Pershing, then a captain, was one of the soldiers attempting to stop Big Foot. After penetrating the Badlands, Big Foot and his warriors met a disastrous end at the Battle of Wounded Knee, when he and almost all of his band were annihilated in the last conflict between the whites and the Indians, the culmination of the Messiah War.


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