Black Hills
The Black Hills are a small and isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States.
Black Elk Peak( formerly known as Harney Peak), which rises to, is the range's highest summit.
The Black Hills encompass the Black Hills National Forest.
The name" Black Hills" is a translation of the Lakota".
The hills were so- called because of their dark appearance from a distance, as they were covered in trees.
Native Americans have a long history in the Black Hills.
After conquering the Cheyenne in 1776, the Lakota stole the territory of the Black Hills, which became central to their culture.
In 1868, the U.S. government signed the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, establishing the Great Sioux Reservation west of the Missouri River, and exempting the Black Hills from all white settlement forever.
However, when settlers discovered gold there in 1874, as a result of George Armstrong Custer's Black Hills Expedition, miners swept into the area in a gold rush.
The US government took back the Black Hills and in 1889 reassigned the Lakota, against their wishes, to five smaller reservations in western South Dakota, selling off 9 million acres of their former land.
Unlike most of South Dakota, the Black Hills were settled by European Americans primarily from population centers to the west and south of the region, as miners flocked there from earlier gold boom locations in Colorado and Montana.
As the economy of the Black Hills has shifted from natural resources( mining and timber) since the late 20th century, the hospitality and tourism industries have grown to take its place.
Locals tend to divide the Black Hills into two areas:" The Southern Hills" and" The Northern Hills".
The Southern Hills is home to Mount Rushmore, Wind Cave National Park, Jewel Cave National Monument, Black Elk Peak( the highest point in the United States east of the Rockies, formerly and still more commonly known as Harney Peak), Custer State Park( the largest state park in South Dakota), the Crazy Horse Memorial, and the Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, the world's largest mammoth research facility.
Attractions in the Northern Hills include Spearfish Canyon, historic Deadwood, and the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, held each August.
The first Rally was held on August 14, 1938 and the 75th Rally in 2015 saw more than 1 million bikers visit the Black Hills.
Devils Tower National Monument, located in the Wyoming Black Hills, is an important nearby attraction and was the United States' first national monument.
Riders of the Range (1949 film)
Riders of the Range is a 1949 Western film directed by Lesley Selander.
Doug Engebretson
Doug Engebretson is an American author and historian.
His best- known work is Empty Saddles, Forgotten Names": Outlaws of the Black Hills and Wyoming"( 1982), which includes accounts of early- day outlaws operating in Wyoming and the neighboring Black Hills of South Dakota.
Engebretson also published an article entitled" The Spearfish Mail Stage Holdup" which appeared in' True West Magazine' August, 1987.
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Riders of the Black Hills
Riders of the Black Hills is a 1938 American Western" Three Mesquiteers" B-movie directed by George Sherman and starring Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, and Max Terhune.
Touchy Feely
Touchy Feely is a 2013 film directed by Lynn Shelton and starring Rosemarie DeWitt, Allison Janney, and Ellen Page.
The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize, and was released in the United States on September 6, 2013.
Riders of the Sage
Riders of the Sage is a 1939 American film directed by Harry S. Webb.
George Sherman
George Sherman( July 14, 1908 – March 15, 1991) was an American film director and producer of low- budget Western films.
Tallulah (film)
Tallulah is a 2016 American comedy- drama film written and directed by Sian Heder and starring Ellen Page, Allison Janney, and Tammy Blanchard.
The film revolves around a young woman who unexpectedly takes a baby from its irresponsible mother and pretends the child is her own.
Without a place to stay, the woman asks for help from her ex-boyfriend's mother, telling her the baby is her granddaughter.
" Tallulah" had its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2016 and was released on Netflix on July 29, 2016.
The film was praised for the performances of Page, Janney and Blanchard.
It also marked the third collaboration between the two actresses, having last worked together in" Juno"( 2007) and" Touchy Feely"( 2013).
Doane Robinson
Jonah LeRoy "Doane" Robinson (October 19, 1856 – November 27, 1946) was a state historian of South Dakota.
He is known for conceiving of the idea for the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills, which he believed would stimulate tourism to the area.
The Lakota people, who consider the Black Hills to be sacred ground, objected to this project but were unable to prevent it.
This territory used to be within the Great Sioux Reservation, but the United States broke up and decreased the size of the reservations after gold was discovered in the Black Hills.
Robinson gained support from the US Senator from South Dakota, and in 1929 President Calvin Coolidge approved the project after Congress authorized funding.
The project was completed in 1941.
Lynn Shelton
Lynn Shelton( born August 2, 1965) is an American director known for writing, directing, and producing such films as" Humpday" and" Your Sister's Sister".

Question: Do both films Riders Of The Black Hills and Touchy Feely have the directors from the same country?
Answer: yes