Another spot with an image-provoking name is the Black Hills where you can visit the old frontier mining town of Deadwood.

The Black Hills Passion Play is produced every summer and is a pageant worth seeing and shooting.

It has been discovered in considerable quantity at Pala in San Diego county, California ; Caceres, Spain ; and the Black Hills of South Dakota.

* Black Hills ( 2010 )

* 1972 – Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $ 160 million in damage.

In 1956, inspired by Ernest Hemingway's 1935 novel Green Hills of Africa, she began an ambitious film project in Africa drawn from another novel called Schwarze Fracht ( Black Freight ).

* June 9 – The Black Hills flood kills 238 in South Dakota.

* Gold is discovered in the Black Hills.

Pegmatite containing lepidolite, tourmaline, and quartz from the White Elephant Mine in the Black Hills, South Dakota

While searching for diamonds in the Leucite Hills, Dan Hausel recovered 13, 000 carats of peridot from two anthills located near the Black Rock lamproite.

In turn, they were pushed to the west by the Lakota ( Sioux ), who took over the territory from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the Big Horn Mountains of Montana.

They lived in the Rocky Mountains and foothills on the present-day Wyoming-Montana border along the Upper Yellowstone River, in the Big Horn and Absaroka Range ( also Absalaga Mountains ) with the Black Hills comprising the eastern edge of their territory.

After about 1860, the Lakota Sioux claimed all the former Crow lands from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the Big Horn Mountains of Montana.

The Treaty of Fort Laramie ( 1868 ) with the United States confirmed the Lakota control over all the high plains from the Black Hills of the Dakotas westward across the Powder River Basin to the crest of the Big Horn Mountains.

In 1765, a Saône exploring and raiding party led by Chief Standing Bear discovered the Black Hills ( the Paha Sapa ), then the territory of the Cheyenne.

The Cheyenne then moved west to the Powder River country, and the Lakota made the Black Hills their home.

The Black Hills were considered sacred by the Lakota, and they objected to mining.

In 1868, the United States signed the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, exempting the Black Hills from all white settlement forever.

In 1877 some of the Lakota bands signed a treaty ceding the Black Hills to the United States.

Their ancestors fled to " Grandmother's Queen Victoria's Land " ( Canada ) during the Minnesota or Black Hills War.

Large numbers of Lakota live in Rapid City and other towns in the Black Hills, and in metro Denver.

The Great Sioux War of 1876 – 77 was also known as the Black Hills War, and was centered around the Lakota tribes of the Sioux, although several Native Americans believe that the primary target of the United States military was the Northern Cheyenne tribe.

Having settled the Black Hills of South Dakota and the Powder River Country of present-day Montana, they introduced the horse culture to Lakota ( Sioux ) bands about 1730.

In the 18th century, they migrated west from Lakota warriors, but by the next century, bands of Lakota had followed them into the Black Hills and Powder River Country.

The Cheyenne Nation formed into ten bands, spread across the Great Plains, from southern Colorado to the Black Hills in South Dakota.

:: The Restigouche Estuary was designated ( June, 2000 ) an Important Bird Area of International Significance ( the first in New Brunswick ) because it is the largest staging area in eastern North America for Black scoter.

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Interstate 17 is known as the Black Canyon Freeway from the northern end of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area to its first interchange with Interstate 10 northwest of Downtown Phoenix, which is known as The Stack.

* Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area ( part )

* Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area ( part )

* Black Rock Desert-High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area ( part )

* Black Bulga State Conservation Area

The park lies within the Mundaring-Kalamunda Important Bird Area, so identified by BirdLife International because of its importance as a non-breeding season roost site and foraging base for Long-billed Black Cockatoos.

The park lies within the Northern Swan Coastal Plain Important Bird Area, so identified by BirdLife International because of its importance in supporting several thousand Short-billed Black Cockatoos during the non-breeding season.

The park has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ) because it supports populations of endangered Short-billed Black Cockatoos and Western Whipbirds, and is visited by endangered Long-billed Black-Cockatoos.

It lies within the Northern Swan Coastal Plain Important Bird Area, so identified by BirdLife International because of its importance in supporting several thousand Short-billed Black Cockatoos during the non-breeding season.

It is the mission of the Black Hills Area Council, Boy Scouts of America to support and organize chartered partners.

In 1976 the Black Hills Area Council established Medicine Mountain Scout Ranch our year-round camping facility which hosts both unit and family groups.

* Black Hills Area Council

Black Hills Area Council serves Scouts in South Dakota and Wyoming.

Black Hills Area Council is headquartered in Rapid City, South Dakota.

* Black Hills Area Council

The Black Mountains are located at the northern-most end of the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area, where world heritage listed wet tropical forests meet drier savanna woodlands-making it a natural refuge for once more widespread, now isolated relict fauna.

The cays form an Important Bird Area because they support more than 1 % of the world populations of Black Noddies ( with up to 300, 000 nests ) and Wedge-tailed Shearwaters ( up to 560, 000 nests ), making up the majority of the east Australian breeding populations of these species, and sometimes more than 1 % of the world population of Brown Boobies ( 1000-4000 nests ).

A 318 km < sup > 2 </ sup > area of the lake and its surrounds has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ) because it has supported over 1 % of the world populations of Blue-billed Ducks and Red-necked Avocets as well as populations of the biome-restricted Inland Dotterel, Bourke's Parrot, Slaty-backed Thornbill, Grey-headed Honeyeater, Black Honeyeater, Pied Honeyeater, Hall's Babbler, Chirruping Wedgebill and Chestnut-breasted Quail-thrush.

The islands have been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area ( IBA ) because they have supported over 1 % of the world populations of Pied Imperial Pigeons ( with up to 4000 nests ) and Black Noddies ( up to 7500 nests ).

Black Swamp Area Council was created in 1992.

The Top Ten Initiatives are: Star-Spangled Camporee at Ft. McHenry and surrounding City Parks, Scout Sunday And Sabbath, Anniversary Black Tie Gala, Gathering of Eagles, Flag Ceremonies, the 100 Great Moments in Baltimore Area Scouting History, Birthday Card Contest, Scouting Mural / Mosaic Project and the 100th Anniversary Service Project.

Police protection in the Black Canyon City area is the responsibility of the Southern Area Command of the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office.