The site marks the first major battle fought in Dakota Territory between Gen. Henry H. Sibley's Minnesota volunteers and a gr...
The office of the late Dr. Melzer, an early settlement physician, also contains American Indian photography....
Displays include historical artifacts of American Indians and early settlers....
A small granite marker identifies this site as the approximate location of the July 13-14 campsite of the Sibley Expedition....
Site contains ruins of large Mandan Indian earthlodge village believed to have been inhabited for nearly 300 years until 1781...