page_title: Like-a-Fishhook Village
section_title: The Arikara arrive
hierarchical_section_title: Like-a-Fishhook Village / The Arikara arrive
caption_attribution_description: English: Arikara, Hidatsa and Mandan Indian territory, 1851. Like-a-Fishhook Village, Fort Berthold I and II and militay post Fort Buford, North Dakota
context_page_description: Like-a-Fishhook Village was a Native American settlement next to Fort Berthold in North Dakota, established by dissident bands of the Three Affiliated Tribes, the Mandan, Arikara and Hidatsa. Formed in 1845, it was also eventually inhabited by non-Indian traders, and became important in the trade between Natives and non-Natives in the region.
  The village was founded eight years after a disastrous epidemic of smallpox in 1837. The numbers of the dissident Mandan in the region had been reduced to approximately 125; the population of the Hidatsa was also affected, though not as severely. These Mandan and Hidatsa bands were later joined by the Arikara 18 years after the village was constructed.
  The village, consisting of earthen lodges and log cabins, was abandoned in the mid-1880s. The site of Like-a-Fishhook Village was lost when the construction of Garrison Dam flooded the area to create Lake Sakakawea in 1954.
context_section_description: The Arikara moved out of Mitutanka with the closing of the nearby trading post Fort Clark in 1860. They build a new village, named Star Village by archaeologists, in the spring of 1862. The settlement was located in view of Like-a-Fishhook Village, but on the south side of the Missouri. A trading visit by some Sioux in August erupted into a fight. Suffering severe losses, the Arikara fled across the river and enlarged Like-a-Fishhook Village with a new, northern district. Like the Mandans, they constructed a ceremonial lodge, but larger. Assisting Surgeon Washington Matthews reports the lodge bordering an open space, which was more or less in form of a square. According to tradition, the "tribal temple" should have been built in the center of the plaza with open space all around it. The influx of the Arikara nearly doubled up the population in the village, so more than 2,000 people lived there. (This may be compared to the total of 2,405 citizens in North Dakota in 1870.)
caption: Arikara, Hidatsa and Mandan Indian territory, 1851. Like-a-Fishhook Village, Fort Berthold I and II and military post Fort Buford, North Dakota. The village was outside the treaty territory.
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