Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community is a federally recognized, sovereign Indian tribe of Mdewakanton Dakota people, located southwest of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, within parts of the cities of Prior Lake and Shakopee in Scott County, Minnesota.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: Indian tribe community in Scott County, Minnesota, United States
- Also known as: “Prior Lake Indian Reservation” and “Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community of Minnesota”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Steel Venom and Wild Thing.
Steel Venom
Roller coaster
Steel Venom is an inverted launched roller coaster located at Valleyfair amusement park in Shakopee, Minnesota, United States. The Impulse Coaster model from Intamin, which opened in 2003, reaches a height of 185 feet and a maximum speed of 68 mph. Steel Venom is situated 2½ miles north of Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community.
Wild Thing
Roller coaster
Wild Thing is a hypercoaster located at Valleyfair. It is an out and back roller coaster with more than one mile of track. Its first hill is 207 feet with a 60 degree drop, and the roller coaster reaches speeds of up to 74 mph. Wild Thing is situated 2½ miles north of Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community.
Corkscrew
Roller coaster
Photo: Alex, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Corkscrew is a steel roller coaster at Valleyfair in Shakopee, Minnesota, featuring one vertical loop and two corkscrews. Built in 1980, Corkscrew was planned to reflect the design of its sister roller coaster Corkscrew at Cedar Point. Corkscrew is situated 2½ miles north of Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prior Lake.
Prior Lake
Town
Photo: Jeanqueq, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Prior Lake is an exurban city 20 miles southwest of Minneapolis, next to Savage and Shakopee in Scott County in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Surrounding the shores of Lower and Upper Prior Lake, the city is south of the Minnesota River in an area known as RiverSouth and establishes the urban fringe of the south-southwest portion of Minneapolis-St. Prior Lake is situated 3½ miles southeast of Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community.
Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
- Categories: federally recognized Native American tribe in the United States and Mdewakanton
- Location: Scott, Minnesota, Midwest, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Western Frisian—“Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Comunitat Sioux Shakopee Mdewakanton”
- Dutch: “Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community”
- French: “Communauté de Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux”
- German: “Shakopee-Mdewakanton-Reservation”
- Russian: “Шакопи”
- Western Frisian: “Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota Mienskip”
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