Badlands National Park

About

To the Lakota Sioux, who controlled this part of the Dakotas before the white man arrived, they were the mako shika, ‘the bad lands’. To the French-Canadian fur trappers, who came later, they were les mauvaises terres à traverser, “bad lands to travel across”. But in 1935, the great architect Frank Lloyd Wright came here and described what he saw with an artist’s eye: “an indescribable sense of mysterious elsewhere . . . [an] endless supernatural world more spiritual than earth but created out of it.”