Swift Bird ( lkt, Ziŋtkála KiŋyáŋWaggoner, Josephine, Emily Levine, and Lynne Allen. Essay. In Witness: A húnkpapȟa Historian's Strong-Heart Song of the Lakotas, Pg. 665. Lincoln & London: University of Nebraska Press, 2013.) is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...

(CDP) on the

Cheyenne River Indian Reservation The Cheyenne River Indian Reservation was created by the United States in 1889 by breaking up the Great Sioux Reservation, following the attrition of the Lakota in a series of wars in the 1870s. The reservation covers almost all of Dewey ...

in Dewey County,

South Dakota South Dakota (; Sioux language, Sioux: , ) is a U.S. state in the West North Central states, North Central region of the United States. It is also part of the Great Plains. South Dakota is named after the Lakota people, Lakota and Dakota peo ...

, United States. It was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census. The population of the CDP was 117 at the 2020 census. It is in the eastern part of the county, on the south side of

U.S. Route 212 U.S. Route 212 (US 212) is a spur of U.S. Route 12, US 12. It runs for from Yellowstone National Park to Minnesota State Highway 62 (Hennepin–Dakota counties), Minnesota Highway 62 at Edina, Minnesota. It does not intersect US 12 no ...

, northwest of the highway's bridge over

Lake Oahe Lake Oahe () is a large reservoir behind Oahe Dam on the Missouri River; it begins in central South Dakota and continues north into North Dakota in the United States. The lake has an area of and a maximum depth of . By volume, it is the List of l ...

on the Missouri River. It is south of Swift Bird Bay on Lake Oahe, fed from the west by

Swift Bird Creek Swift Bird Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Swift Bird Creek has the name of Chief Swift Bird, a member of the Sioux tribe. See also *List of rivers of South Dakota This is a list of rivers in the state of South Dakota in the ...

. The community is west of Gettysburg and east of Eagle Butte.

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