The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-12
INDIAN REMAINS
DISCOVERED BY
4, W.SHUTTER'
Histories of Red Men Of the
Prairie to Live Forever, He
Declares
.,OES UP MISS OU X |
Scenes of Villages Visited by
Hardy Frontiersmen Are
Unchanged

The red mems heyday IS long
since past but memories Of the val
. liant Indians that roamed the wild
: prairies of what was to become
, North Dakota will be remembered
. for centuries to come.
This was the conclusion of Cap
tain Arnold w. Shutter, stationed at
. Fort Lincoln during the summer OF
: 1928, who retraced the footsteps OF
, Captains Meriwethcr and Will
liam Clark, who under order
of President Jefferson Travelled
up the Missouri to its sources to
"find out if possible the fountains
of the Mississippi and the true po-
sition of the Lake Of the Woods"
Following the course Of the Mis-
souri, river for some Is miles l
reached point just above the place
where the Knife river flows into the
Big Muddy" Shutter said. Here
one may still see the remains of an
old Indian village. At the time OF
Lewis and Clark it was still an i'm
portant stronghold. Today little re-
mains to be seen save the circular
depressions over which the earth
lodges had been erected; although a
few kicks is generally sufficient to
turn to light old buffalo bones and
teeth, bits of pottery. flint arrow
heads.
Ruled by lie Borne
. "In 1900 it was ruled over with an
. iron hand, by one of those peculiar
characters, white man, who had
elected to make his home among
the Indians. This particular ruler
was widely known-a Frenchman
who was styled lie Borne" the one
eyed, feared by everyone. The In
dams called this village Hidatsa-a
and here, about the year 1900 there
was brought captive, a cir! OF the
Shoshone tribe. She had been taken
in a foray out toward the Snake
river. A short while thereafter, lie
Borne appears to have sold her as a
slave to another Frenchman, named
sCharboneau. Charboneau took her
to his own village, Mihtutankush, the
'luins of which may still be seen just
above the present site Of Fort Clark,
.and she later became his wife. In
,lSO4-5, the Lewis and Clark eNpedi-
ton spent the winter in this vicinity.
founding Fort Mandan. The name Of
this young woman has come down
to history as Sakakawea.
Through all her captivity, Saka-
kaWea had retained the languarge of
her own people, and cherished men,
DRY Of her own homeland on the
Snake river. Lewis and Clark were
going her way, and appeared to af
ford protection for the journey.
Nothing could be more natural than
her final selection as a guide. And
so this remarkable young woman
made the entire journey to the coast
and back, guiding the expedition
through a country familiar to her
self but unknown to them, and
opened up continent. And as
though such journey were not in
itself arduous enough, she started
out, carrying on her back her own
papoose, scarcely month old when
his travels started.
Statue at Bismarck
1.-THE name Sakakawea will be pre-
served for all time. In the grounds
II the state capitol, at Bismarck, a
remarkable statue has been erected
to her memory by grateful white
race. In the historical section Of
the capitol building hangs portrait
of an Indian woman, Otter Woman,
painted by Minneapolis girl, Greta
'Heyscr. Otter Woman was a direct
descendant Of Sakakawca, and posed
for the statue of her illustrious an
cestor.
1.-THE name Of her native village,
Mihtuttahangkush, is unknown to-
day. Yet, it was once of Importance
to Red men and White alike. TAX
ing the Indians "Winter Count" it
is certain it was established between
1743 and 1897. It was the first of
the friendly Mandan villages"
reached by the early traders from
St. Louis, some 1900 miles by river.
Lewis and Clark sometimes refer to
it in their diaries as "Big Whites
Village" Here, about 1923 was the
site of the American Fur Company's
trading post, where the fortunes Of
the Astor family were founded. In
that day, the Missouri river, motor
ious for changing it's course, Rugged
the western bank, and came close
below the high ground on which the