A cowboy herds buffalo in Custer State Park during the 55th Buffalo Roundup on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, in Custer, S.D. Thousands attended the annual roundup during which cowboys drove nearly 1,300 buffalo to the corrals where they are tested, branded and sorted to maintain a healthy herd.

Children play in the fountains at Main Street Square on Thursday, June 10, 2021, in Rapid City, S.D.

Organizer Aprina Johnson cries after speaking to a crowd as it marched through downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, during the "Cincinnati March For Racial Justice II" on Sunday, June 28, 2020. The demonstration was in response to the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. "We're being killed out here psychologically, spiritually, so that really tears me up," Johnson said.  

Laura Craig speaks to son Makai Craig, 5, outside Valley View Elementary School, during the first day of school on Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2020, in Rapid City, S.D. Craig said she does not have many concerns about the pandemic. "My biggest concern is how the kids all cope," Craig said. "But my kids have had no hesitation and no issues with the mask wearing."

Married couple of 40 years Jean Nash (left) and Bob Nash dance to live music at Main Street Square during the Splash Patio event on Thursday, July 15, 2021, in Rapid City, S.D. Nash said she loves what events like Splash Patio do for the downtown area. "I just really think that it gives it some humanity, and gives it life," Nash said.

Aliceson Stranberg, who became "Miss Newell" for the first time at the event, watches the 75th Newell Ram Sale on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, in Newell S.D. 

Olivia Arguello, 6, walks through Memorial Park with grandmother Connie Hopkins to raise awareness of missing and murdered Indigenous people on Saturday, April 17, 2021, in Rapid City, S.D. Hopkins' grandson died two months ago. Her daughter called 911 one day when her grandson did not come home after school. "Turned out he was laying in the field across the house on the other side of the fence shot in the head," Hopkins said. "That's where I feel like being more involved, and all this here that's happening is to get more people involved."

Daeanna Kidd, Lanae Matthews, and Takoryah Green (left to right) play at the Parker Bennett Community Center's park after school. The Parker Bennett Community Center (PBCC) offers free care to children between the ages of 5 and 13. Jkeyah Patterson, a recreation assistant for the after school program, said the most rewarding part of her job is helping to mold the children at the program into what they want to be. “Realizing that all kids don’t come from the same area...from the same place. That’s why I’m really grateful to work here so that I can give my love and attention to them,” Patterson said. 

Idessa Hayes (right) and Emma Osborne-Hudson, learn about bee hives at Fullerton Farm on Wednesday, July 21, 2021, in Box Elder, S.D. The two girls are participants in Youth and Family Service's Girls Inc. program which promotes learning about sustainable farming and healthy eating habits.

Jess Cappel, 17, goes down the slide at the Dunham Recreation Center Complex in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Monday, June 8, 2020. Monday was first day the pool has been open since the coronavirus pandemic hit.

Jennifer McCambridge, a senior kennel tech at the Western Hills Humane Society, sits with a few of the 35 dogs that were rescued from a man's home north of Whitewood, on Friday, Oct. 15, 2020. According to the shelter, the dogs were starving and inbred when they were seized during a search warrant. "They're so exuberant. They're so wanting love," McCambridge said. 

A couple of ducks stand on the dam at Canyon Lake Park as steam fog rises up on Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, in Rapid City, S.D. Rapid City experienced lows in the negative teens Monday according to the National Weather Service. 

Tim Mercy hugs his mother, Patsy Mercy, 88, through the "Hugging Window" at Edgewood Healthcare on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2020, in Rapid City, S.D. Edgewood staff built the window to help family members safely embrace during the pandemic. 

Diane McDonald (left) builds an igloo out of snow with neighbor Jayden Eiesland, 11, on Monday, March 15, 2021, in Rapid City, S.D. McDonald said she usually builds snow structures with her grandchildren, but since her grandchildren were not available, Eiesland helped out. "I just wanted to see that I could do this one more year before I hit my seventies, so praise God, here we are," McDonald said.

Hideaway Hills resident Sheri Stacy looks at signs posted on a fence surrounding evacuated homes near a collapsed gypsum mine on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, in Blackhawk, S.D. Stacy and other neighbors attended a vigil Tuesday to remember the collapse of the mine one year later. While no one was injured in the collapse, some lost their homes and many are now unable to move. Stacy said she wants to sell her house but cannot get a realtor to look at the property. "People's homes, that's your livelihood you know. I wanted to come out and play a part in [the vigil] because it's just sad for everybody; it really is," Stacy said.

Joe Lambert, 11, of Saturn, Neb. rests near cattle before competing at the Rite Youth Beef Show on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City, S.D.

A firefighter looks out over scorched land Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021, in Wasta, S.D. The estimated 300-acre grass fire began when a semi-truck trailer with hay caught on fire Tuesday night. 

Darian Burgin of the West End embraces another demonstrator at the Hamilton Co. Courthouse in Cincinnati, Ohio, after the sheriff and deputies kneeled in response to protesters' repeated pleas on Monday, June 1, 2020. Protests have been held around the country after George Floyd, a black man, died Monday in Minneapolis, after a white police officer kneeled on his neck.