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Among the last Native American's known to have called Carter County home were the members of the proud Sioux and the Northern Cheyenne Nations. Carter County was once a part of the Montana Territory used as their hunting grounds. Medicine Rocks State Park, located just 14 miles north of Ekalaka on Hwy. 7, was used by them as a sacred place. Today it is still viewed as a holy site by many Native Americans.

 

Recovered from the surface of an eroded badlands slope on the divide between two small tributaries of the Powder River in 1978, these quartizite bifaces display no use wear. Therefore they are best interpreted as blanks suitable for reduction into a variety of finished tools and were either lost or stored for a later use and then forgotten.

 

Lambert Cache Bifaces

 

 

  

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Some of the artifacts on display in the Native American Department date back to the stone age. The various cultural periods covered in this display of Native American tools and artifacts ranges from the Paleo Indian Period to the Historic Period.

 

"American Native Lady"

            

This beautiful bronze bust entitled "American Native Lady" of Ijkalaka was commissioned & donated to the Carter County Museum in 2002, by Irene Jones, Lakewood, Colorado. The Artist was Pamela Harr, Glendive, Montana

 

 

  

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The Indian Village scene below depicts a sample of what a Native American home on the prairie might have looked like after the US Military had arrived in the Montana Territory and the Bureau of Indian Affairs began furnishing government supplies to the various tribes. Tent Canvas and the

 

 

 

 

 Lodge Pole Pines used to stretch the canvas over are authentic recreations.

 

Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Sioux, was a frequent visitor to the Carter County area of the Montana Territory. He knew it well as he hunted across it's vast prairie's. For many years after the territory was opened for settlement, he and other Native American's returned to the Medicine Rocks area where they had held religious ceremonies.

To contact us:

Carter County Museum

306 N. Main Street

Ekalaka, Montana 59324-0445

Phone: (406) 7756886