State of South Dakota
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EIGHTY-EIGHTH SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2013
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196U0796
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HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 1009
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Introduced by: Representative Heinemann (Leslie) and Senator Heineman (Phyllis)
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A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION, Recognizing South Dakota's 125th birthday,
quasquicentennial, during 2014.
WHEREAS, President Benjamin Harrison signed a statehood proclamation creating the
State of South Dakota at 3:40 p.m. on November 2, 1889; and
WHEREAS, South Dakota has been, and continues to be, a land of infinite variety, diverse
cultures, and hard working, caring people; and
WHEREAS, South Dakota is home for nine Native American tribes and many other peoples
with their own unique stories to tell through their art and culture; and
WHEREAS, South Dakota is the home of America's "Shrine of Democracy," Mount
Rushmore, which has attracted millions of people to South Dakota and inspired many more
millions with its carvings of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt; and
WHEREAS, South Dakota is also the home of the Crazy Horse Memorial, the world's
largest mountain carving which honors Native American heroes; and
WHEREAS, South Dakotans take pride in the diversity of our backgrounds and land and
shared core values to work together with "the best is yet to come" attitude; and
WHEREAS, South Dakota's agricultural producers have provided crops and livestock to
feed our nation and the world in years of plenty and through years of drought and flood; and
WHEREAS, South Dakota shares its outdoor heritage of hunting, fishing, camping, and
recreation with our sons and daughters and guests from around the nation; and
WHEREAS, South Dakota's rankings in comparison to other states and its own past shows
that South Dakota continues to be an excellent place to live, work, and raise a family; and
WHEREAS, it is fitting and proper that South Dakotans celebrate 125 years of statehood
with special events and activities in remembrance of South Dakota's past, celebrating successes,
and looking forward to a prosperous future:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the House of Representatives of the Eighty-Eighth Legislature of the State of South Dakota, the Senate concurring therein, that the year
2014 and especially the week of November 2-8, 2014, be recognized to celebrate South Dakota's
quasquicentennial.