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Grand Portage National Monument
Bull Boats During the Fur Trade
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Commonly associated with the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara, bull boats were necessary to cross rivers in the West. Weighing as little as thirty pounds and made from the hide of bison, they replaced canoes west of Grand Portage as essential transportation for the fur trade in a landscape where birch was scarce.
American Battlefield Protection Program
The Hard Reality of Fort Pillow: Interpreting the Massacre of US Colored Troops in 1864
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With assistance from the NPS American Battlefield Protection Program’s Battlefield Interpretation Grant, Fort Pillow State Historic Park seeks to enhance battlefield interpretation through an augmented reality (AR) mobile application and interpretive waysides. The project aims to preserve and enhance the historic integrity of the battlefield, while also making it more accessible and engaging to modern audiences.
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Sergeant Nathaniel Pryor was a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. He was well respected and performed his duties with success and honor.
Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
Hiring of Charbonneau and Sacagawea
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Sacagawea and her husband, Toussaint Charbonneau, joined the Lewis and Clark Expedition from their home in Mandan and Hidatsa villages.
Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
Spirit Warrior Memorial
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The Spirit Warrior Memorial helps to shed light on the other part of the story at Little Bighorn Battlefield. It was built to honor the tribes that fought on both sides of the battle who were there to preserve their way of life. You will find the stories of some of the warriors from the Battle, their perspectives, observations, and experience.
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The Northern Plains National Heritage Area amplifies the nationally important heritage that flows from the Missouri River in central North Dakota. This includes the interconnected stories of explorers and settlers, tribal citizens, origins of various agrarian lifeways, and the expansion of the United States reflected within this lived-in landscape.
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In traditional Hidatsa society, women constructed, owned, and maintained the earthlodge, or awadi. The elaborately designed structure was home to between ten and twenty people, often sisters and their families spanning several generations. Today, shallow depressions mark the locations of the earthlodge villages at Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site in North Dakota.
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The Archway also contains a variety of outdoor recreation opportunities. The Great Plains Cultural Learning Trail travels through native prairie vegetation to a replica sod house.
Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail
Helena AR, Trail of Tears
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The Delta Cultural Center and the exhibits on the Helena Levee walk have content about Indian Removal. Helena residents of the 1830s watched tens of thousands of Cherokee, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Chickasaw pass by as they traveled south on the Mississippi River. Unlike the river today, during Indian Removal is was dangerous for a variety of reasons from sickness onboard and low river levels to fires and explosions on the steamboats.
Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
Lewis’s Air Gun
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Meriwether Lewis demonstrated his trick gun to people he met, including Blaise Cenas near Pittsburgh, the Arikara along the Missouri River, and Clatsop leader Coboway near the Pacific Ocean.
Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
Native Names of Plants and Animals along the Lewis and Clark Trail
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Today the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail passes through the homelands of more than sixty tribes. These tribes celebrate their own languages, art, culture, and innovation. Hear the names of a few plants and animals in indigenous languages. Just remember, each plant and animal has dozens of different names depending on who is speaking and what language the speaker is using. Do you know a name in another language?
Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
Color the Trail: Animals of Lewis and Clark
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Color the Trail: Animals features animals of the trail and their names in Chinuk Wawa, Lakota, Arikara, Shoshoni, Osage, Hidatsa, Blackfoot, Nimipuutimt, and Mandan. More than 65 tribes have a connection with the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. Download, print, and color the pages.
Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
Joseph Gravelines and the Lewis and Clark Expedition
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While serving as an interpreter for the Corps of Discovery, Joseph Gravelines also understood the value of recording the topography as the Arikara chief Too Né saw it. He also showed his mettle when forced to inform the Arikaras their chief had died.
Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Visitor Center - Red Columbine
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"Red Columbine" interpretive plaque. Part of the audio tour for the Interpretive Garden at the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Visitor Center in Omaha, Nebraska.
Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail
MHA Nation: Mandan, Hidatsa & Arikara Nation – Three Affiliated Tribes
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The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, also known as the Three Affiliated Tribes, is located on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in central North Dakota. The reservation stretches across 988,000 acres of wide-open plains and grasslands, and along both sides of the longest river in North America, the majestic Missouri River, or its native name of “Awati.”
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
Smallpox Arrived at the Little Village.
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Stop #4 Smallpox arrives in the little village 1781
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
What Happened to the Earthlodge Builders?
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Kenai Fjords National Park
Harding Ice Cap Camp
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In the spring of 1970, The Fish House News advertised round trip tickets from Seward to the Harding “Ice Cap” for $15.00 per person. Jackie and Joe Stanton, owners of Harbor Air, and Jim Arness of Nikiski partnered to provide this unique sightseeing experience. Ten Ski-Doos and three Ski-Boose awaited visitors on top of the ice field where they could be rented for $7.00 an hour.
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
Garden and Drying Stage
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Waheenee and Cold Medicine on drying stage.
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
Knife River Earthlodge
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The Hidatsa, Mandan and Arikara lived in earth and wood structure called “awahte” (Awa-adi in Hidatsa) or earthlodge.