Research Updates

Scan of report. Very dark photo of a person standing perhaps on the edge of the water. Typewritten text next to image reads "The sun is setting on another day having passed by the Standing Rock Reservation. The rays grow long, obliquely bouncing off the hard rock, dry earth and bright waters covering Mother Earth. But the beautiful colors of a lovely, late Fall day are denied the people living along the ridges of the Grand River valley. The forests are gone. The tall, stately oaks, elms and maples, all gone. The flowing, clean Snake and Willow creeks where wildlife and Iron Cloud cattle came to drink are nothing more than wet ravines. All is underwater, or dead like the few tree trunks left along the shore, broken and lifeless. The waters rose, and rose, until they covered over what was once the 'Taken Land'."

Oahe Dam Impacts: Standing Rock Reservation

Black-and-white photo of Cheyenne Agency's wide, dusty main street with one and two-story buildings on either isde.

Oahe Dam Impacts: Cheyenne River Reservation

A pile of slightly dirty tools spread out on a light-colored vinyl floor. It includes trowels, measuring tapes, folding rulers, spoons, root clippers, brushes, screwdrivers, spoons, and a bunch of gloves

Tools of the Trade

Cropped version of a scan of the first page of the Dawes Act on yellowed paper in brown ink. Transcript: "Forty-Ninth Congress of the United States of America; At the Second Session, Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday, the sixth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and eight-six. An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in all cases where any tribe or band of Indians has been, or shall hereafter be, located upon any reservation created for their use, either by treaty stipulation or by virtue of an act of Congress or executive order setting apart the same for their use, the President of the United States be, and he hereby is," The rest of the page is included in the blog post. See the caption of that image for a link to the rest of the document and the full transcript.

Oahe Dam Background: The Great Sioux Reservation

Color postcard. View of Oahe dam with power house in the center of the image. Some areas on the edge o f the lake look like they are still under construction. Text reads, "Oahe Dam, South Dakota" in big red block letters across the blue sky in the top quarter of the image.

Oahe Dam

Color painting of snowed-in fort buildings under a dramatic sky. People in military uniforms with a dog in the foreground.

Garrison Dam Archaeology: 32ML1 – Fort Stevenson

Color photo of ceramic sherds in a cardboard tray in a storage drawer. They are mostly plate bottoms that include maker's marks and they are positioned so that the marks are facing up.

Garrison Dam Archaeology: 32ML2 – Like-A-Fishhook Village and Fort Berthold

Black ink on yellowish page. High view of Fort Floyd with hills in the background. A square stockade has a gate in one side and a row of wooden buildings along the opposite wall. A cannon is drawn in the center of the open space.

Garrison Dam Archaeology: 32MN1 – Fort Floyd

Very high aerial view, in black and white, of an archaeological excavation in a landscape. A long line of square excavation units looks like a checkerboard in the landscape. Other areas look like large squares, circles, and trenches.

Garrison Dam Archaeology: Village Sites

Looking down at my feet, in steel-toed boots, in a very muddy excavation unit. It has standing water in it. Sixteenth-century building facades and partially blue sky are reflected in the water.

End of Year Update, Part II: Cataloging and Field Work

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