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Bennett County is a county located in the U.S. state of South Dakota . As of the 2010 census , the population was 3,431. Its county seat is Martin . The North American continental pole of inaccessibility is in Bennett County, located 1650 km from the nearest coastline, between Allen and Kyle at 43°22?N 101°58?W ? / ? 43.
This land was for centuries traditional territory of the Oglala Lakota , also known as the Sioux . First included in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation , most of the county was removed from the reservation in 1910 by an act of the US Congress and made available for sale to non-Natives. Any Pine Ridge Lakota who were displaced were given allotments within the diminished reservation, which extends to the northwest corner of the county. The boundaries of the future county were determined by the South Dakota state legislature in 1909. To the east is the Rosebud Indian Reservation , occupied by Sicangu Oyate , also known the Upper Brulé Sioux Nation and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe , a branch of the Lakota people . The land was part of Fall River County until the European-American organization of Bennett County in 1912. That year on April 27, its first board of county commissioners was elected. In November 1912, residents chose the town of Martin as the county seat. Both Lakota and European Americans have worked during recent decades to improve relations between the groups, which residents commonly refer to as full-bloods, mixed-bloods and whites. Intermarriage continues between the groups and cooperation has been increasing.
