6 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [Buuu. 185 
In 1951 the writer, accompanied at various times by G. Hubert Smith 
and Lee Madison, spent an additional month on reconnaissance in 
the area, recording 27 more sites and testing 2 of those previously 
recorded. 
Beginning with the field season of 1950, several institutions carried 
on archeological investigations in the Garrison Reservoir area. In 
that year a Missouri Basin Project party, under G. Ellis Burcaw, 
conducted large-scale testing operations at the Rock Village site 
(map 1), a late, fortified earthlodge village which is believed to be 
assignable to the Hidatsa. At the same time the State Historical 
Society of North Dakota, under a cooperative agreement with the 
National Park Service, sent out a party under the leadership of Glenn 
Kleinsasser and began the investigation of Like-a-Fishhook Village 
(82ML2), the last earthlodge village of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and 
Arikara. 
In 1951 a Missouri Basin Project party, under Donald D. Hartle, 
continued the excavation of Rock Village and carried out large-scale 
testing operations at Star Village (82 ME16), the last site to be oc- 
cupied by the Arikara before joining the Mandan and Hidatsa at 
Like-a-Fishhook Village in 1862. Another party from the same organ- 
ization, under G. Hubert Smith, investigated the site of Fort Steven- 
son, a frontier army post which later served as an Indian school. 
During that year the State Historical Society of North Dakota, again 
under an agreement with the National Park Service, continued its in- 
vestigations at Like-a-Fishhook Village, the field party being under the 
direction of James H. Howard. In addition, a University of 
Montana—National Park Service party, led by Carling Malouf, investi- 
gated three camp sites in the area, 832ME43, 32ME54, and 82ME55 
(map 1). 
The summer of 1952 saw parties from the same three institutions 
again working in the area. Donald D. Hartle, of the Missouri Basin 
Project, spent a few weeks digging a deeply buried, artifact-bearing 
level beneath the Rock Village site, after which his party carried out 
extensive excavations at the Nightwalkers Butte in the Bull Pasture 
(32ML39) in a postcontact but undocumented site (map 1). A party 
under G. Hubert Smith uncovered the major portion of the remains 
of the second Fort Berthold (originally Fort Atkinson), which in turn 
had been a trading post, Army post, and Indian agency. Late in the 
season the two Missouri Basin Project parties joined forces and tested 
the Grandmother’s Lodge site, 32ME59, reputedly the dwelling of 
one of the Mandan supernaturals. James H. Howard, leading a 
party from the State Historical Society of North Dakota, under a co- 
operative agreement with the National Park Service, continued the 
excavation of Like-a-Fishhook Village. Malouf, again heading a 
