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New Awotixa Village 



Ne!'40F sect. 33 TOWN. 145 RANGE 84 



SCALE 

 I INCH TO 90.66 FEET 



Map S. — New Awatixa village at the mouth of the Knife River. (Courtesy North Dakota 



Historical Society.) 



northern agriculturalists along the Missouri River. Concerning the 

 Awaxawi, where his father was born, Bears Arm stated that this group 

 was once more numerous and lived to the east as agriculturalists on 

 the streams of that region and later at Devils Lake. There the 

 Hidatsa-River Crow (called Miro'kac prior to the separation) found 

 them and concluded that they were related since their languages were 

 mutually intelligible. Reaching the Missouri, the Awaxawi lived in 

 the Painted Woods region around the Square Buttes where they 

 remained on friendly terms with the Mandan of that and the Heart 

 River region, and the Awatixa of site 34 on Knife River. Prior to 

 the epidemic of 1782, the enemies of the earth-lodge groups, particu- 

 larly the Sioux, were not numerous. The Arikara were more niunerous 

 and aggressive at that time and carried on constant warfare against 



