The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-30
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Government Sends Woman
to do Research Work
Among N. D. Indians

Bismarck. May 30.-The North Da-
kota State Historical society has en-
gagged Miss Frances Dcnsmore of
Washington, ID. c.. now employed by
the United States bureau of ethnol-
y to spend six weeks in research
work among the Mandan and Gros-
ventres Indians IN the Fort Berthold
reservation. Miss Densmore will visit
the Fort Bcrthold agency at Elbo-
woods, and will take Il photograph
with her. She will secure photograph
records OF tine songs, stories II lam
Suagcs of these ancient indian tribes.
The rapidly dwindling members af tn"
tribes render her services at this time
particularly Fortunate. Among the
Older Mandans and G~rosventres re-
siding on the reservation are such ia
nous characters as Mrs. Holding
Eagle, daughter of Moves Slowly, last
great medicine man of the Mandans.
Wounded Face. Crows Heart, June
berry, Bears Arm. Holding Eagle. Sit
Hairy Goa and Water Chief. All of
the Older Indians will assist in pre-
serving these records OF their tribes
to postcrity.
When the Fort Berthold reservation
was thrown open to set1lrmcnt-draw-
ing for claims being still in progress
at the United States land office at
Minot the site of the old Berthold In
dian village was exempted from set
tlemcnt by the United States GOVERN
ment n set aside as IL historical re-
serve. n Indians called his the
Fish Hook village. and it was occu-
pied between the year 1S34-1SS6. 1t
was the last village inhabited by the
Indians before they Went onto their
allotmcnts on the Fort Berthold reser-
Walton. The site of the village is still
plainly marked. the getaways and
round rings where the log huts and
earth lodges We're being clearly dis
%ccrnible. Tho historical society is
planning to send a field worker to the
village to mark the site of each house
ard get Il history of the place. The
younger men OF the two tribes. for
many of whom it was their birthplacr
are especially interested i'm Fish Hook
village and arc now working i'm their
own way among the older Indians ana
aldlnS the society in securing histori.
cal facts.
Large Indian Painting.
Inc historical society ~recently re.
celNed a large Indian painting draw
by Martin Bears Arm showing tn,
real Fish Hook village, and depictin,
the huts and lodges, totem poles ant
corn scaifolds. with remarkable ac
CuracE. a day or so & Spottet
Weasel young Indian born in Fish
HOOK village, paid a visit to- the stat,
historical museum and saw the paint
ing. He pointed out the house he wa.
born In, and Curator Fish referring t.
the Key of the painting, informed hin
that that hut belonged to Little Grow
l-lttle Crow was my father" sait
spotted Weasel, proudly.
An historical discovery of more thar
ordinary importance was made b,
Curator Ii. c. Fish of the historical
Society less than a week ago. Mr.
non at Long Lake. about thirty mile:
south of Bismarck. where Sully await.
ed the report from detachments sen,
to Bismarck in 1863 to learn thu
Whereabouts of General Sibley's expe.
altloh. 1T was from this camp, too
that Sully, discovering that DELAYED
transportation had prevented him
from Joining Sibley at Bismarck il
accordance with their original plan MS
returned northward to meet the Siou,
IN n memorable battle at White.
stone. The rifle pits along the militar,
crest of the hill at Long Lake are es.
p~ecially plain.
the historical society is now plan.
hlhs to- trace the route of the Sully
'HPe,iti'Ii ol 1914, from Fort Rice
ABOUT twcnty-eight miles south of Bis.
mar'k, to the Yellowstone. and mars
the course with suitable mum
ms was Sully's second expedition
against the Sioux Which had partici.
pated in the terrible massacres of
Fort Ridgeley II New Ulm, MINI.
1t was on this memorable expedition
that General Sully parked his ago.
ram, comprising eighty wagons of
emlgrants and 400 wagons OF supplies
AT the Heart river. while the military
forces went north to the kildecr
mountains. about forty miles above
Dickinson n fought one of the big
sest Indian battles waged on the
American continent. Sully's force
numbered 200 men and the Indians
1000. After the battle the soldiers
destroyed over 900 Indian tepees.
There are at the present time on
me Fort Bcrthold reservation twenty.
three Arikara scout who were with
Reno in the Custer massacre in 1878
These scouts have sent requests Ia
the historical society to send a mar
to them to write up IA history of their
relation to the memorable battle of
the Little Big Horn. The wear viii
be rich in DEVELOPMENTS Of b;etor;a.,