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Around 1775, the Oglala and Brule bands of the Sioux nation moved into the Bad River territory, near the present town of Philip, South Dakota.
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In 1776 the Lakota indians took over the Cheyenne tribe in the Black hills of now-day South Dakota.
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After the Lewis and Clark expedition, the Lakota heard of englishmen coming to take over present-day America and left to present-day Canada.
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In the 1840's early fossil hunters begin to show up in the Badlands.
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In the fall of 1847 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia became the first known institution to receive a collection of fossils from this region.
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In 1861, the Dakota territory is established.
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In 1889 South Dakota and North Dakota are declared states.
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As early as the 1890's, people have came to the Badlands with homesteaders with their cattle to raise
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The wounded knee massacre was the last battle in the Badlands area.
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In 1892 the Corn Palace was made to show the rich soil of South Dakota.
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In the 1900's homesteaders start coming to the Badlanda area in search of land to live and farm on.
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On March 4th 1929 the Badlands was declared a national monument.
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In the 1930's the land people had been planting and rasing livestock on started goin into a drought.
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The Wall, South Dakota drug store was purchased by Ted Hustead in 1931.
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On January 25th 1939, the Badlands was declared a National Park with help from Theodor Roosevelt.
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In 1998 the Badlands was subject to a multi year parkwide archaeology survey to gain more knowledge about its human past.
