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Display case containing small leather balls decorated with glass beads or porcupine quills. The designs are sort of abstract floral.

Travels in North Dakota, Part IV: Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Scan of color image on book page. Karl Bodmer painting of the village on its bluff, in the background. In the foreground are people with bullboats getting out of the river.

Travels in North Dakota, Part III: Fort Clark State Historic Site

Looking into Fort Mandan from the entrance gate. Low wooden buildings surround a vaguely triangular open court. The court is covered in ice and snow with odd mud patterns. Trees beyond the outer walls.

Travels in North Dakota, Part II: Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center and Fort Mandan

Interior of circular, domed construction, made from wooden poles, the spaces in between filled with twigs. The center of the roof is supported by four larger poles, holding up a horizontal square. View is towards the entrance, where bright light shines in. Benches are placed around a central hearth, which is unlit here.

Travels in North Dakota, Part I: Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park

Two images: One is a full color Sacagawea stamp. It's 29 cents and includes her portrait from the waist up. She has a papoose on her back but the baby is not visible. On the coin, she is shown from the shoulders up, from the back, with her head turned. The baby, in a carrying cloth, is visible here, asleep on her back.

Lake Sakakawea and the Woman It Was Named After

The power house at Garrison Dam, a blocky construction with ten cylindrical towers closely spaced together, in low winter light under a grey sky.

Garrison Dam

Old (1878) black-and-white photo of a large pile of bison hides with a man sitting on it in the foreground. Other people and horse cars are visible in the background. All are dwarfed by the massive pile of hides.

Happy National Bison Day!

Two ceramic pots from an archaeological collection stored in a shoe box with a label from the 1940s.

How Everyday Objects Can Tell Us about the Past: Twentieth Century Examples From Our Collections Work

Scene from The Revenant (2015). Domnhall Gleeson as Andrew Henry, sitting at a table inside the movie's version of Fort Kiowa.

Real Stories behind The Revenant, part III: Fort Kiowa

Still from The Revenant. Men traveling through a snowy mountainous landscape under an ominously cloudy sky.

Real Stories behind The Revenant, part II: Ashley’s Hundred

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