National Historic Landmark -Menoken Indian Village Site

This site shows certain structural and artifactual similarities to historic and prehistoric earthlodge villages along the Upper Missouri River.

Archaeological research in 1998-1999 demonstrates conclusively that this village was occupied during the early AD 1200s.

It was a nucleated fortified community belonging in the Late Plains Woodland tradition.

Its rich material content and high degree of integrity guarantee that the location can inform us greatly about the origins of intensive crop cultivation, along with the life ways of the people of the Northern Great Plains.

Courtesy National Park Service National Historical Landmarks