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Native Americans were the first settlers in South Dakota.

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The first known inhabitants of South Dakota were a band of Indians called Clovis Hunters. These people were called Clovis Hunters because there is evidence that they dined on mammoths.

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The first human inhabitants of the area that is now South Dakota arrived in the area about 9,000 years ago.

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The Paleoindians until about 5000 BCE.

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