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As lias been pointed out elsewhere (Mattison, 1951, p. 2), one of 

 the most important sites in the Garrison Eeservoir area was that of 

 Fort Stevenson, an American military post of 1867-83, which was used 

 as an Indian school from that date mitil 1894. "When the intensive 

 archeological reconnaissance of this reservoir area was begun in 1917, 

 the site of FortStevenson, in present McLean County, was an ob- 

 vious point of departure. The site was designated 32ML1, in accord- 

 ance with the trinomial system of designation employed by the Mis- 

 souri Basin Project. 



Excavation of some of the archeological sites of major importance 

 in the Garrison Reservior area was begun in 1950. In that year a 

 Missouri Basin Project party, under the direction of G. Ellis Bur- 

 caw, began excavation of the Rock Village site (32ME15). The 

 same year, a party from the State Historical Society of North Dakota, 

 under the direction of Glenn Kleinsasser began excavation of the Like- 

 a-Fishhook Village site (32ML2). 



In 1951 excavation activities in the Garrison Eeservoir area were 

 expanded. The 1950 excavations, concerned with the two native 

 earth-lodge village sites of the historic period, were continued by 

 the same agencies under the field direction of Donald D. Hartle and 

 James H. Howard, respectively. After completmg the work at the 

 Rock Village site, Hartle and his party began excavation of the 

 Star Village site (32ME16) . The same year a party from Montana 

 State University under the direction of Carling Malouf excavated 

 at three sites of Indian provenience (32ME43, 32ME54 and 32ME55). 

 It also became possible, in 1951, to give attention to some of the 

 historic sites, especially Fort Stevenson (32ML1). This site, though 

 primarily of White provenience, had a direct bearing upon the native 

 history of the entire region. Excavations were carried out there 

 by a Missouri Basin Project party under the direction of G. Hubert 

 Smith. Other field work of the 1951 season included testing of several 

 sites of Indian origin and one historic site, that of Kipp's 1826-27 

 trading post (32MN1) by the Missouri Basin Project reconnaissance 

 party. 



In 1952 James H. Howard continued excavations at the Like-a- 

 Fishhook Village site (32ML2) for the State Historical Society of 

 North Dakota. G. Hubert Smith and a Missouri Basin Project 

 party, at the same time, began excavation of another portion of the 

 same site (32ML2), the remains of a trading post known as Fort 

 Berthold II (originally called Fort Atkinson). Donald D. Hartle, 

 with another Missouri Basin Project party, excavated a butte-top 

 village site known as Night-Walker's Butte in the Bull Pasture 

 (32ML39), and tested the smaller site of Grandmother's Lodge 

 (32ME59). Carling Malouf and a party from Montana State Uni- 

 versity excavated at five sites of Indian provenience (32MN5, 32MN7, 



