Oglala, SD

Oglala is a census-designated place in West Oglala Lakota Unorganized Territory equivalent, Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, United States. The 2020 census counted 1,282 residents. Its location is in the northwest of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The community takes its name from the Oglala Lakota. The only school in Oglala is Isna Wica Owayawa, also known as Loneman Day School. Oglala is administered by the Bureau of Indian Education and serves kindergarten through eighth grade. Oglala's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider South Dakota setting. The local scoop is how Oglala's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Oglala stands directly north of the Oglala Dam and its reservoir, Oglala Lake, completed in 1941.