Red Shirt (

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: ''ógle šá'' or ''ógle lúta'') is a small

unincorporated Unincorporated may refer to: * Unincorporated area, land not governed by a local municipality * Unincorporated entity, a type of organization * Unincorporated territories of the United States, territories under U.S. jurisdiction, to which Congress ...

Oglala Lakota village southeast of Hermosa in

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, United States. It is on the Pine Ridge Reservation, just outside

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. Red Shirt is located just past the east end of SD 40, which becomes BIA Highway 41 at the bridge over the

Cheyenne River The Cheyenne River ( lkt, Wakpá Wašté; "Good River"), also written ''Chyone'', referring to the Cheyenne people who once lived there, is a tributary of the Missouri River in the U.S. states of Wyoming and South Dakota. It is approximately 2 ...

(boundary between Custer County and Oglala Lakota County and of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The built-up area of the community, including Red Shirt School, is located on the flats of the valley of the

, below the north end of Red Shirt Table, a prominent feature of the landscape of northwestern

. Red Shirt, as are many Oglala and Lakota communities, was named for chief Red Shirt, (Ógle Lúta, ca 1845–1925) whose band settled in the area in the late 1870s. In 2009, the village consisted of approximately 23 houses (including some mobile homes) in two clusters (Upper and Lower Red Shirt), the Red Shirt School (both the modern (constructed 2005–2008) school with two large domes, and the older school buildings), a dance ring, sports fields, several community buildings, and a sewage plant. As the community is the closest on Pine Ridge Reservation to Rapid City, it is a desirable place to live as it offers a relatively easy year-round commute. Red Shirt is the last community served by the massive Mni Wiconi water project pipeline which pumps water from the Missouri River near

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up to the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations. The village is located near the Cheyenne River but outside the

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(100-year floodplain) of the river. Red Shirt School is part of the Oglala Lakota County School District, and is an elementary school, but also is a campus/coordinating/test center for the Shannon County Virtual High School (SCVHS), which provides instruction via internet and is the only public high school located on the Pine Ridge Reservation.Conversation, Nathan Barton and Melvin (Smiley) Sierra, Administrator, 15 June 2008.

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