Emmons County history : compiled for the bicentennial, 1976

• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: North Dakota State Library 2014
• Subjects: Bismarck; Buckley; Canada; Corral; Flint; Head Creek; Horse Head; Indian; Beaver Creek
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ndsl-books/id/13335

Village Sites A check list of classified Indian Village sites in Emmons County is taken from Lewis F. Crawford's "History of North Dakota". They are as follows: 36. Clam, Souverley. East side of the Missouri on north bank of Horse Head Creek. 37. Steinbrueck, Shermen, Fishing Village. SV2- NEV4-30,136 78. East of the Missouri, three miles south of Glencoe postoffice and almost opposite Eagle Nose Village. 60. Glencoe. East of the Missouri, about two miles above No. 37. 61. Buffalo Corral, Mysterious Corral, or Holy Corral. Sec. 4, 131-79, north side of Corral or Little Beaver Creek in Emmons County. A Buffalo pound for taking buffaloes. (Mandan). 65. Gayton. On east side of Missouri and slightly north of a point opposite the mouth of the Cannon Ball. 67. Livona. An unidentified site on the east side of the Missouri near the mouth of Badger Creek. The Bismarck Tribune, March 18, 1966, carried an article written by Naomi Buckley Oder, stating: "The Corbin Hotel had a last fling recently when it once again served its original purpose. After years of being a family residence, it was left vacant until last summer when archeologists moved in to make it their headquarters while literally digging up history. "Nearby, they had unearthed a large Indian village dating back to the 1400's, before America was discovered. What could be more fitting than for the workers to live in the old hotel? "The creaking stairs rattled with folks running up and down. The west room was crowded with a large dining table and chairs, where 10 people ate. "The yard that used to be equipped with a square-dance platform was again alive with tents, trailer houses, improvised shower baths and racks for washing and draining the artifacts from the Indian village. "The articles found at the site were all brought to the house, where the wives of some of the archeologists would wash and drain, on the racks, every little piece of pottery, flint, arrowhead, bone needles, beads, buffalo bone hoes or whatever was found. Also interesting were the squash seeds and corn found in garbage and storage pits. "The road in and out of the yard, where the stagecoach used to rumble, was kept dusty with their cars going back and forth as well as those of visitors calling to see some of the articles found during that days exploring." Apr. 1896: While John Martinson was digging a well on his place near the Logan County line, he uncovered an earthern urn or dish bearing the inscription "Itis Apis Potities". The urn had apparently lain in the ground for centuries. People with a scientific learning are wondering whether the inscription is Latin or Sioux. If the later, it shows that the Indians of generations ago were much more civilized than at present. A * _____ tf* LW Mstife**-'.-^IIL ~" ''^^MiipVBuH^H^^I ,# _ "J I *t E__ ui — « ;i»- 1 ":■ T^^'*t«/ • r:Ir: ». ;**''' r?« Indian village unearthed by archeologists in 1965, about 4 miles south of Glencoe Church. The village dates to the 1400's. ft\ # Sitting Bull Born in 1831, Chief Sitting Bull led his Sioux warriors in one of the most futile types of warfare: that against progress and change. When, for the sake of his starving and homesick people, he returned with his small band from Canada in 1881, he was classed as an outlaw by the U.S. Gov't. He was shot and killed Dec. 20, 1890 by Sgt. Red Tomahawk, one of the Indian police who had been assigned to arrest him and was buried at Ft. Yates. 28 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.