Discovering Lewis & Clark
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Fort Berthold Reservation in 1
 

Nightwalker's Village

photo: View from Nightwalker's Village
View from Nightwalker's Village

photo: Trail across buttes to Nightwalker's Village
Trail to Nightwalker's Village
Calvin Grinnell photos

The Hidatsa chief, Nightwalker, established a fortified butte-top village here around the time of the smallpox epidemic of 1781.

Fort Berthold Reservation in 1



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©2009 by The Lewis and Clark Fort Mandan Foundation, Washburn, North Dakota.
Journal excerpts are from The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, edited by Gary E. Moulton
13 vols.(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983–2001)