FOREWORD 
The seven reports which comprise the present volume of River Basin 
Surveys Papers pertain to work which was done in four reservoir 
areas in the Missouri Basin. Two of the reservoirs are located in 
North Dakota, one in Montana, and one in Kansas. The North Dakota 
reservoirs are the Garrison on the main stem of the Missouri River, 
located some distance above Bismarck, and the Jamestown on the 
James River above the town of Jamestown in the eastern part of the 
State. The Montana reservoir is the Tiber, located on the Marias 
River in the northwestern part of the State, and that in Kansas is 
the Lovewell on White Rock Creek, a tributary of the Republican 
River in the north-central part of the State. All four of the projects 
have been completed, and the areas where the archeological investi- 
gations were carried on are now inundated. 
Four of the projects were in the Garrison Reservoir basin, and 
three of them are particularly interesting because they pertain to his- 
toric Indian locations. As a matter of fact, one of the three could 
virtually be called modern. Most of the work in the Garrison area 
was done in sites which were pre-White contact and older or in sites 
of the early historic period when the Indians were associated with or 
living adjacent to trading posts or military installations. The in- 
formation obtained from Indian occupation areas which were con- 
temporaneous with those of White origin but which gave little evi- 
dence of direct association throws interesting light on various 
aboriginal activities. 
Mr. Metcalf, in the first paper, describes small sites in and about 
the Fort Berthold Reservation because it was thought that while 
most of these sites were too small to merit a full-scale investigation, 
they nevertheless provided a considerable amount of previously un- 
reported data which should be made available. Some of the sites 
mentioned by Mr. Metcalf subsequently received additional attention 
and will be described in other papers. Most of those which he de- 
scribes, however, will not be discussed elsewhere. His report adds to 
the general information of the Fort Berthold area. The second pa- 
per, by the same author, describes the investigations made at a single 
site, where a village was started by the Arikara in the spring of 1862 
and was occupied only until the latter part of August of the same year, 
when raids by the Sioux forced its abandonment and the withdrawal 
of its occupants. Although the life of the community, which is 
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