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Weekly Highlights in South Dakota

Every featured event of the week, past and present

Haunted Library
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

Haunted Library

The K.O. Lee Aberdeen Public Library turns four themed rooms into a walk-through haunted house with trick-or-treat stations on Friday, Oct. 30, 2026, from 3 to 5 p.m.

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SDSU-USD Rivalry Game in
Weekly Highlight Oct 26 – Nov 2, 2026

SDSU-USD Rivalry Game in

South Dakota and South Dakota State meet in the Interstate Series on Halloween afternoon at Dana J. Dykhouse Stadium in Brookings, a 3 p.m. kickoff airing on ESPNU.

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JJ Kent Lakota Program in
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

JJ Kent Lakota Program in

Lakota educator and award-winning flutist JJ Kent brings a tipi demonstration and Native American flute concert to the High Plains Western Heritage Center in Spearfish on October 25, 2026.

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Kuchen Demo at Aberdeen
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Kuchen Demo at Aberdeen

Kay's Kuchen brings three flavors of South Dakota's state dessert — and free samples — to the K.O. Lee Aberdeen Public Library on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, from 6 to 7 p.m.

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Free Scooby-Doo at Coyote
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Free Scooby-Doo at Coyote

The live-action Scooby-Doo (2002) screens free at Vermillion's Coyote Twin Theater on Monday, October 19, 2026, at 7 p.m.

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Rushmore Book Talk at
Weekly Highlight Oct 19–26, 2026

Rushmore Book Talk at

Matthew Davis discusses "A Biography of a Mountain," the 2026 One Book South Dakota, at the Edith B. Siegrist Vermillion Public Library on October 20, 2026.

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Mitákuye Oyás'iŋ Festival at
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Mitákuye Oyás'iŋ Festival at

The Mitákuye Oyás'iŋ Festival, also known as All My Relatives, brings a free day of Native music, art, and fashion to the Levitt Bandshell in Sioux Falls on August 29, 2026.

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Happy Birthday, T.R.
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Happy Birthday, T.R.

The Days of '76 Museum in Deadwood hosts a free Theodore Roosevelt birthday history program for grades K-6 on October 17, 2026, with a take-home craft and Junior Ranger badge.

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Indigenous Peoples' Day at
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Indigenous Peoples' Day at

NDN Collective's free Indigenous Peoples' Day gathering and concert returns to Main Street Square in downtown Rapid City on Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, from 2 to 9 p.m. MT.

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South Dakota flag
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Native American Day Parade

Sioux Falls' Native American Day Parade returns to Phillips Avenue on Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, with a pre-parade fun run and the parade stepping off at 11 a.m.

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Queen of Hearts at Remedy
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Queen of Hearts at Remedy

Dakota Dachshund Rescue's Find the Queen of Hearts 50/50 drawing returns to Remedy Brewing Company in downtown Sioux Falls on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, with the jackpot past $150,000 and only five cards left.

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Novel Lattes Book Fair in
Weekly Highlight Oct 12–19, 2026

Novel Lattes Book Fair in

Novel Lattes, billed as the largest clean book festival in the U.S., brings more than 75 authors and vendors to the Denny Sanford Convention Center in Sioux Falls on October 17, 2026.

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Twisting Between Worlds
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Twisting Between Worlds

A Mnicoujou Lakota artist who spent part of her childhood in Lead returns as SURF's 2026 artist in residence to talk about art, science, and Lakota star knowledge.

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Deadwood After Dark
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Deadwood After Dark

Two novelists who turned Deadwood's ghosts into fiction bring their readers to the real haunted house for a weekend of signings, stories, and a midnight paranormal investigation.

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Where the Sky Meets the Mine
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Where the Sky Meets the Mine

A Mnicoujou Lakota artist who grew up in the shadow of Lead's headframes returns to connect underground physics with the oldest star knowledge in the Black Hills.

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Ghosts of the Adams House
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

Ghosts of the Adams House

For a few October nights, Deadwood's most haunted mansion becomes a working paranormal laboratory — and the story behind it is darker than any ghost story.

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A Parade of Their Own
Weekly Highlight Oct 5–12, 2026

A Parade of Their Own

Rapid City's Indigenous People's Day parade grew from a health board's push to make Native culture visible in a city that once made it invisible.

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A Mile Down, a Physicist
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

A Mile Down, a Physicist

Frank Strieder has spent thirty years chasing the nuclear reactions inside stars from laboratories buried under mountains. On September 28, he brings that work back up to a visitor center built on the bones of a gold mine.

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Where the Wild West Meets
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Where the Wild West Meets

For more than two decades, this gold-rush town has traded its cowboy boots for lederhosen each fall, filling Historic Main Street with racing dachshunds, rolling beer barrels, and free brats.

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Four M's, One Roof: Inside
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

Four M's, One Roof: Inside

A free, family-friendly expo on the Rapid City campus turns gold panning, blacksmithing and hard-rock engineering into a community open house — and a quiet argument about where the modern world's materials actually come from.

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A Festival Cut to a Single
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

A Festival Cut to a Single

After federal funding cuts forced the South Dakota Festival of Books down from a weekend to one day, the 24th edition lands in downtown Sioux Falls with about 30 authors and a Mount Rushmore biography at its center.

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A Campus Comes Down the
Weekly Highlight Sep 28 – Oct 5, 2026

A Campus Comes Down the

For one October evening, South Dakota State University brings its NASA-grade rovers, its century-old ice cream and a new lecture series to the Washington Pavilion — and closes a downtown street to do it.

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A People's March Through
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

A People's March Through

On September 12, 2026, hikers will walk the old railroad grade between Lead and Deadwood, celebrating 150 years of two neighboring communities bound by history and a shared trail.

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Steam, Sweat, and Kuchen
Weekly Highlight Sep 7–13, 2026

Steam, Sweat, and Kuchen

On a farm west of Delmont, the Twin Rivers Old Iron Association and the Delmont Historical Society join forces each September to celebrate America's agricultural heritage with threshing demonstrations, vintage tractors, and the region's beloved German kuchen.

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In Wagner, the 'World's
Weekly Highlight Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026

In Wagner, the 'World's

Every September, a town of 1,500 on the South Dakota prairie nearly doubles in size as South Dakota's longest-running citywide Labor Day celebration rolls through its 126th year.

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All My Relatives: A Sioux Falls Festival Celebrates Native Excellence
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

All My Relatives: A Sioux Falls Festival Celebrates Native Excellence

The fourth annual Mitakuye Owas’iƞ festival brings music, fashion, and art to Levitt at the Falls, honoring the Lakota prayer that all are related.

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All My Relatives: A Sioux
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

All My Relatives: A Sioux

The fourth annual Mitakuye Owas’iƞ festival brings music, fashion, and art to Levitt at the Falls, honoring the Lakota prayer that all are related.

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A Victory Dance Carried
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

A Victory Dance Carried

For the Sicangu Lakota, the annual Rosebud Fair is not just a celebration—it is a living memory of the 1876 victory at the Greasy Grass, carried forward through dance, rodeo, and community.

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South Dakota flag
Weekly Highlight Aug 24–30, 2026

Where the Black Hills

A music and arts festival at Katmandu RV Park & Campground celebrates Black Hills community and togetherness.

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