The second is Lewis and Clark. Eighty percent of the money came from grants from the Federal Highway Commission, and the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe paid the remainder. The trail includes 12 interpretive sites, Maus said. Over half of the funds were used to build a buffalo interpretive center near Fort Pierre. We have some isolation from the mainstream.
Tourism is a development thought to be a good source of business.
The bicentennial serves as a means to connect area tribes with their surrounding communities. In North Dakota, there are mixed feelings about Native American tribal involvement in the bicentennial commemoration. Arikara was the first to have met with them at Fort Mandan. According to Grinell, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota expressed some concern about tourist traffic. They fear their burial areas will be washed away and they have some misgivings about tourists wandering around, picking up bones at burial sites.