Editing Hot Springs, South Dakota (section)

==History==
[[File:South Dakota - Dickinson through Hot Springs - NARA - 68148928 (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Hot Springs in 1941]]
The [[Sioux]] and [[Cheyenne]] people had long frequented the area, appreciating its warm springs. According to several accounts, including a [[ledger art]] piece by the [[Oglala Lakota]] artist [[Amos Bad Heart Bull]], Native Americans considered the springs sacred.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2954&context=greatplainsquarterly|title=The Sacred Black Hills – An Ethnohistorical Review|publisher=Great Plains Quarterly via Digital Commons at University of Nebraska – Lincoln|author=Linea Sundstrom|date=1997-07-01|access-date=2014-08-25|archive-date=2021-11-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124162437/https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=2954&context=greatplainsquarterly|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.nps.gov/wica/historyculture/upload/-11C-13-Chapter-Thirteen-Sacred-Ground-Chronology-and-Contr.pdf|title= The black hills as sacred ground: the chronology and controversy|publisher= [[National Park Service]]|access-date= 2014-08-25|archive-date= 2014-08-26|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140826113533/http://www.nps.gov/wica/historyculture/upload/-11C-13-Chapter-Thirteen-Sacred-Ground-Chronology-and-Contr.pdf|url-status= live}}</ref>
European settlers arrived in the second half of the 19th century. They first named the city "Minnekahta" after its Lakota name. It was renamed Hot Springs in 1882, which is a translation of the Native American name.<ref>{{cite book|author=Chicago and North Western Railway Company|title=A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA84|year=1908|page=84|access-date=2015-11-22|archive-date=2016-05-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513090705/https://books.google.com/books?id=OspBAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA84|url-status=live}}</ref> A variety of health resorts were built on the tourism offered by the springs.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Hot Springs, South Dakota|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/683054/Hot-Springs|access-date=2009-07-26|archive-date=2011-11-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111126120754/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/683054/Hot-Springs|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Lund|first=John W.|title=Hot Springs, South Dakota|journal=Geo-Heat Center Quarterly Bulletin|date=December 1997|volume=8|issue=4|pages=6–11|url=http://geoheat.oit.edu/bulletin/bull18-4/art2.pdf|access-date=2014-02-09|archive-date=2014-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222171214/http://geoheat.oit.edu/bulletin/bull18-4/art2.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>