HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 1009
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.
Adopted by the House of Representatives,
February 25, 2013
Concurred in by the Senate,
February 27, 2013
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Brian Gosch
Speaker of the House
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Arlene Kvislen
Chief Clerk of the House
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Matt Michels
President of the Senate
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Jeannette Schipper
Secretary of the Senate
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