Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site (1974) near Stanton, ND, at the site of Hidatsa villages |
A small Bull Boat, made from the hide of one bull buffalo/bison (KSS) |
More gardening tools (KSS) |
Knife River gets its name from the flint found in the area that was widely traded (KSS) |
Another cross-section of an earth lodge cache, this one including a bag of beans and squash (KSS) |
The best-constructed replica earth lodge we have seen |
Note the forked branch to hold the horizontal timbers (KSS) |
Earth lodge construction seen from the inside (KSS) |
Replica interior of the earth lodge (these replicas always had fresh ashes in the fire pit so that it smelled authentic!) |
A section for the #1 horse who was allowed to live inside |
The kitchen area that included the under-floor cache for storing food for the winter |
The painted leather parfleche/storage container (KSS) |
Behind one of the lodge poles is a shrine where sacred objects were kept, including weapons of war, and the space between the shrine and the pole was also sacred |
The family painted buffalo/bison hide that would depict heroic events and stories of the tribe of family members |
Knife River National Historic Site: Lewis & Clark Historical Marker |
Oops, a downed tree on the trail to the village sites |
The depressions indicating earth lodges are not as clear at Awatixa Xi'e, the lower Hidatsa village |
The ground, even on the path, was covered with burrow holes |
Kent stands in a depression of one of the earth lodges of Awatixa Village, where Sakakawea was living when Lewis and Clark hired her husband and her as interpreters |
The Knife River (KSS) |
*On 8/11/1806, on the return trip, William Clark climbed a high butte as a lookout when waiting for Meriwether Lewis to rejoin the Corps of Discovery.*
The summit of Crow Flies High Butte near New Town, ND |
Today's view of the Missouri River is instead an extension of Lake Sakakawea created by Garrison Dam (1947-1953) |
Four Bears Memorial Bridge (2005) crosses the Missouri River/Lake Sakakawea within the Fort Berthold Reservation, home of the consolidated Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation |
Astragalus missouriensis/Missouri Milkvetch |
Crow Flies High Butte: Lewis & Clark Historical Marker |
*On 8/12/1806, on the return trip, the Corps of Discovery that had divided on 7/3/1806, now reunited at a bay just above the mouth of the Little Knife River.*
Distant view of what is now called Reunion Bay, near New Town. ND |
View of a square butte beyond where Reunion Bay joins Lake Sakakawea; the original site of the Corps of Discovery reunion is below water (KSS) |
Next: Lewis & Clark Trip Day 20.
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