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Feb 17, 2021 · Lynn "Smokey" Hart has lead an extraordinary life, from riding bulls to successfully lobbying the state of South Dakota to officially recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Native...
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Lynn “Smokey” Hart has an extensive rodeo history with the PRCA, the AIRCA, and most extensively with the Bill Pickett Invitational, an all-black rodeo....
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Apr 7, 2020 · Lynn (Smokey) Hart was born December 11, 1960 in Omaha, Nebraska. He was abandoned three days after being born and placed in a foster home without a name. Lynn never knew either of his biological parents (African American father and Native American mother). He was raised in Chancellor, South Dakota by a single German women and devoted Christian ...
Feb 17, 2021 · Meet rodeo legend Lynn “Smokey” Hart | Dakota Life. SDPB. 37.9K subscribers. Subscribed. 38. 939 views 2 years ago #SouthDakota #BlackHistory #History. Mr. Hart has an extensive rodeo...
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Talking Black History in South Dakota with Lynn "Smokey" Hart.
10K views. South Dakota Public Broadcastingposted a video to playlist Dakota Life. · February 19, 2021 ·. Follow. A conversation with the bull fighting rodeo cowboy Lynn “Smokey" Hart who successfully lobbied for state recognition of MLK Day and Native American Day. #BlackHistoryMonth.
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Sep 2, 2021 · Lynn “Smokey" Hart — who was recently nominated for the South Dakota Hall of Fame — might be the only bull riding, bull fighting, rodeo clowning cowboy ever to successfully lobby a state legislature for two official holidays. If that's not enough, he holds the world record for most consecutively swallowed goldfish.
