Mako Sica

When the Lakota looked on the land around you, they saw the Paha ska (white hills) -a place of bountiful hunting. Historically used for transitory camps, the Paha ska and their western counterpart the Paha sapa (black hills) lie in the heart of Lakota treaty lands set aside in 1868. French trappers in the mid-1700s, frustrated by the land's sharp peaks and crumbling rock, regarded the area as les mauvaises terres (bad lands) The Lakota also began calling this place Mako sica (land bad).