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known as Star Village, was of extremely short duration, it neverthe- 
Jess provides information about changes which were taking place in 
house types and village patterns. 
The article by Dr. Hartle describing the dance hall of the Santee 
Bottoms on the Fort Berthold Reservation is, strictly speaking, an 
architectural study and not archeological in nature. The building was 
still standing at the time the study was made, and there were numer- 
ous Indians living in the vicinity who had participated in ceremonies 
held in the structure. The building is of particular interest because 
it was the last example of that type of dance hall built and used in 
the Fort Berthold area. The place where it stood is now many feet 
beneath the waters of the Garrison Reservoir. The fourth paper in 
the Garrison series, that by Dr. Carling Malouf, is, more strictly 
speaking, an ethnohistorical study, but it was based on excavations 
in a former village site. The historical incidents which led to the 
establishment of Crow-Flies-High village and various things which 
took place there after it was occupied constitute an interesting side- 
light on activities in that portion of North Dakota at that particular 
period. Dr. Malouf was fortunate in being able to obtain from some 
of the Indians still living in the vicinity and from documentary rec- 
ords items which bring to life activities in a native village at a time 
when many changes were takng place and the people were under con- 
siderable strain. Opportunities to make a study of that nature are 
not common and Dr. Malouf took full advantage of the situation. The 
fieldwork which he did was a cooperative project between the National 
Park Service and Montana State University. The other three projects 
in the Garrison Reservoir basin were under the direction of the River 
Basin Surveys, and the field parties were directed by regular staff 
members of the Missouri Basin Project. 
Investigations at the Jamestown Reservoir began in 1946, when a 
preliminary reconnaissance was made of the area to be flooded by the 
project. The construction of the dam was delayed and it was not 
necessary to do further work in the area until the summers of 1952 
and 1954 when the excavations reported by Mr. Wheeler were made. 
As a result of his studies, Mr. Wheeler concluded that the manifesta- 
tions in the Jamestown basin represented a single aboriginal culture 
complex which he designated the Stutsman Focus. The material 
collected indicated seminomadic communities whose subsistence was 
based on a combination of horticulture, hunting, and food gathering. 
Also, these communities trapped eagles for ceremonial purposes. The 
pottery which they made is comparable to that found at various loca- 
tions in central and southeastern North Dakota which has been 
ascribed to the Hidatsa Indians, and it is quite possible that the latter 
may have been responsible for the remains assigned to the Stutsman 
Focus. Certain items of trade material attributable to European 
