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Smith's party completed its work of the 195 1 season by making 

 small-scale test excavations in a site believed to be that of Kipp's fur 

 trading post (32MN1), near the mouth of White Earth River. Traces 

 of a stockade were uncovered, as well as evidence that the post had 

 been burned. The few specimens recovered are consistent with the 

 fairly early date, about 1825, of that establishment. This would ap- 

 pear to be one of the most important sites of the fur-trade period in 

 the Garrison Reservoir, and it should be adequately investigated 

 before its destruction. 



Sheyenne Reservoir site. — The Sheyenne River, in the area of the 

 proposed reservoir, flows in a narrow, rather steep-sided valley. Pre- 

 vious reconnaissance, in 1946, had revealed the presence of small 

 camp sites on the valley floor and of village and mound sites on the 

 bordering uplands. The reconnaissance of six days in 195 1 added 

 three sites — two camp sites and a mound — to the list of those known. 

 It appears that the sites actually below the pool level are not of great 

 importance and that significant archeological resources will be affected 

 adversely only by construction activities or other developments outside 

 the reservoir proper. 



SOUTH DAKOTA 



Most of the field work in South Dakota during this period consisted 

 of an intensive program of investigation of selected sites. Excava- 

 tions were continued in the Angostura Reservoir during the first half 

 of the 1950 season, and excavation parties were in the Fort Randall 

 and Oahe Reservoirs both years. Additional reconnaissance was 

 accomplished in both these latter areas, and the Gavins Point Reser- 

 voir, scheduled for early activation, was surveyed. 



Angostura Reservoir site. — The Angostura Reservoir is a lake ap- 

 proximately ID miles long on the Cheyenne River where this stream 

 skirts the southern edge of the Black Hills. Rather extensive investi- 

 gations, involving numerous sites, had been accomplished during the 

 summers of 1948 and 1949, but some additional work was deemed 

 urgently needed before complete filling of the reservoir, which had 

 already begun by the spring of 1950. By April 20 of that year a 

 number of sites just above the dam, including one, 39FA68, which 

 had been strongly recommended for further excavation, were cov- 

 ered by water. Of especial urgency was more intensive examination 

 of site 39FA65 (the Ray Long site) on Horsehead Creek. There 

 deeply buried evidences of occupation had been exposed only at 

 limited points, owing to the thickness and toughness of the over- 

 burden, in the side of a ravine. Previous excavations had revealed 



