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To: ManyMoose who wrote (33)	12/6/2004 10:09:47 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) of 194

Kind of interesting to see the women's side of life among those people. My perceptions had been shaped by the violence of the Sun Dance as witnessed by L&C and painted by Catlin. When I was a boy I found a really cool stone blade on the beach at our family lake cabin in Minnesota. Years later I learned from my college anthropology professor that it was made of Knife River Flint from the Mandan/Hidatsa country in North Dakota. He estimated that it was around 5,000 years old! Knife River Flint is a beautiful translucent quartz material that was widely traded over much of North America. Here's some links... Photo of a Clovis Point made from Knife River Flint lithiccastinglab.com Grass-covered flint pits hide untold stories For Mandan, Hidatsa tribes, flint was the cornerstone of a vast, thriving trade network bismarcktribune.com Photo of ancient quarry pits... collections.ic.gc.ca

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