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Multi-periodSite Name: Double Ditch State Historic Site Alternative Name: Fortified Mandan Village Site
Country: United States Region: The Plains Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Bismarck, N. Dakota
Latitude: 46.936170N  Longitude: 100.90089W
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Double Ditch State Historic Site
Double Ditch State Historic Site submitted by Flickr : Jupiter over December Double Ditch 1 The bright "star" is Jupiter. The cluster of stars above it is the Pleiades or seven sisters. The streak across the top of the frame is a satellite I believe. I used s small flashlight to "paint" the stone hut. The location is the abandoned Mandan Indian village now called Double Ditch. It was occupied in pre-Columbian times and for many years afterward. ... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Mandan village site in Burleigh County, North Dakota. An Arkansas University archaeological project in the Double Ditch State Historic Site on the Missouri River near Bismarck, North Dakota has revealed a rampart and ditch defensive system around a Mandan village site.

Ken Kvamme, an associate professor of anthropology with the university has found the defensive system to have comprised of a rampart consisting of midden material, a palisade surrounding this, and two rings of double ditches around the palisade which is on the inside edge of the innermost ditch. The outermost ditch surrounded an area of approximately 7.5 hectares (18.75 acres); which according to Kvamme, posed an extreme engineering feat and exemplified a considerable state of fear for the village. Also bastions were found along the outer ditch and rectangular as well as circular lodges were found inside the ramparts.

The site was found to have been occupied from the early 1400s (based on the style of pottery sherds) into the 1700s and by the number of lodges, to have supported a population of approximately 3,000 people. There will be further dating by other techniques in the future. By standards of the region, so far, the site is found to be unusual due to the continuous occupation, tremendous size of site, and defensive works. Kvamme believes this site to be of World Heritage Site quality.

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Note: Work on North Dakota oil pipeline frozen following claims of damage to burial grounds sacred to The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (not Double Ditch State Historic Site but within a few miles). Also news on repairs to flood damage to the state historic site, see the comments on our page
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Double Ditch State Historic Site
Double Ditch State Historic Site submitted by Flickr : Winter Solstice at Double Ditch-Tribune The shortest day of the year dawn's at Double Ditch, site of an abandoned Mandan Indian Village located along the Missouri River a few miles north of Bismarck. Image copyright: hunter20ga, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Double Ditch State Historic Site
Double Ditch State Historic Site submitted by Flickr : Sundogs at DD Dec 28 Print Stone hut at sunrise at Double Ditch north of Bismarck, ND just one week after the winter solstice. Image copyright: hunter20ga, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Double Ditch State Historic Site
Double Ditch State Historic Site submitted by Flickr : Excavation of Ditch 4 Image copyright: State Historical Society of North Dakota, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Double Ditch State Historic Site submitted by Flickr : Double Ditch Village Aerial Looking SE Image copyright: State Historical Society of North Dakota, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Double Ditch State Historic Site submitted by Flickr : Image copyright: erintheredmc (Erin Mc), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Double Ditch State Historic Site
Double Ditch State Historic Site submitted by Flickr : Double Ditch Indian VillageImage copyright: fauxtobug (Hilton Lieberum), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

Double Ditch State Historic Site
Double Ditch State Historic Site submitted by Flickr : Mandan Indian earthlodge village occupied from late 15th century through late 18th century - located off of Highway 1804, Burleigh County, north of Bismarck along the left bank of the Missouri River at the confluence of the Heart River. View facing northwest. Image copyright: Tales, Travels and Photos of the Chinese Buffalo (Charles "Chinese-Buffalo" Bello), hosted on Flickr and displayed under t...

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Double Ditch State Historic Site submitted by Flickr : Double Ditch Indian Village, North Dakota From everydot.com Image copyright: afiler (Andrew Filer), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Double Ditch State Historic Site submitted by Flickr

Double Ditch State Historic Site
Double Ditch State Historic Site submitted by Flickr : Double Ditch Indian Village Aerial (1988) history.nd.gov/historicsites/doubleditch/index.html Image copyright: State Historical Society of North Dakota, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Double Ditch Indian Village’s $3.5 million project to preserve burial grounds by Andy B on Monday, 05 December 2016
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Nov 28, 2015 Preservation of the Double Ditch Indian Village and burial grounds along the Missouri River that conservatively may have the remains of 10,000 people has become a green project that will bypass brick and mortar in favor of a jetty, riprap and some terracing to protect 1,900 feet of riverbank.

“The site will be preserved, and there will be enhanced access to the riverbank. The project is very large, and it’s one of the most significant sites I’d say in North Dakota,” Fern Swenson, director of archaeology and historic preservation with the State Historical Society of North Dakota, said.

The historical society received approval from the Legislature last session for the $3.5 million project on the river just north of Bismarck. Plans include building a jetty in order to prevent further erosion as well as erecting a riprap, or rock barrier. Some terracing at the site also would be part of the proposed fix.

http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/news/north-dakota/3892262-double-ditch-indian-villages-35-million-project-preserve-burial-grounds

Mar 14, 2016 ND officials rush to save historical site threatened by water erosion

As another piece of land at Double Ditch Indian Village is showing signs of sliding into the Missouri River, preservation of the Native American site is becoming more urgent, according to Fern Swenson, director of archaeology and historic preservation with the State Historical Society of North Dakota.

“One slide is developing that goes through the village itself,” Swenson said. “It’s an emergency situation. We can’t afford to wait.”

Two chunks of land already have been sliding at the site. To date, 16 burial areas have been exposed and subsequently moved.

A proposed solution will be submitted soon to federal officials and the hope is for a smooth permitting process so work can begin in the coming months, according to state officials.

http://www.inforum.com/news/3986376-nd-officials-rush-save-historical-site-threatened-water-erosion
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Re: Double Ditch State Historic Site by Catrinm on Sunday, 04 December 2016
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Ok thanks - just wondered the nature of the spiritually important sites they are wanting to protect
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    Re: Double Ditch State Historic Site by davidmorgan on Sunday, 04 December 2016
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    Judging by this map, the original proposal had the pipeline going straight through Double Ditch.
    I see they've already bulldozed some archaeological sites.
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      Opposition to North Dakota oil pipeline by Andy B on Monday, 05 December 2016
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      Thanks, I found the background to this map which was made by Carl M. Sack
      A #NoDAPL Map

      When I decided to become a cartographer, I didn’t just want to make pretty and useful maps. I became a cartographer to make maps that change the world for the better. Right now, no situation needs this kind of map more than the current drama unfolding around the Dakota Access Oil Pipeline’s crossing of the Missouri River.

      Thousands of Native Americans and their allies have gathered on former Sioux land delimited by the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie to try and stand in the way of the “black snake” that could poison the Standing Rock Reservation’s water supply. Many have noted that the pipeline corridor was repositioned from its original route north of Bismarck after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rejected it citing its threat to drinking water in that mostly-white municipality. Yet the Corps failed its federal mandate for meaningful consultation with the Standing Rock Tribe before signing off on a route that moved the pipeline to their doorstep.

      This is not to say that the good citizens of Bismarck and Mandan should be subjected to the risk of an oil spill. What’s wrong with the picture above isn’t the routing of the pipeline. What’s wrong is that the pipeline project exists to begin with. Some say it’s a good alternative to dangerous oil-by-rail shipments of Bakken crude. Those are bad too. We don’t need more fossil fuels making it to market to be burned and burn the planet up in turn (I am typing this in Wisconsin as the temperature nears 70 on the first of November). We do all need clean water. As the Sioux say, mni wiconi–water is life.

      To keep to its construction schedule, the pipeline company, Energy Transfer Partners, has met nonviolent water protectors with private security guards using attack dogs in a scene reminiscent of 1963 Birmingham. It has worked hand-in-glove with law enforcement and the National Guard to create a militarized response straight out of apartheid South Africa or occupied Ireland. It has locked up hundreds of protesters in wire cages like those used early on at Guantanamo Bay. Those on the ground fear something like another Kent State, yet they keep coming, and the worldwide solidarity has gone viral.

      More at
      https://northlandia.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/a-nodapl-map/
      and
      http://nhpr.org/post/112216-hi-anxiety-nodapl-map-overheard

      Some coverage in the UK
      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3782514/US-says-freeze-work-North-Dakota-oil-pipeline-opposed-Native-American-tribes-says-endanger-drinking-water.html

      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3773336/Violence-erupts-Native-Americans-resist-oil-pipeline.html
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        Re: Opposition to North Dakota oil pipeline by Catrinm on Tuesday, 06 December 2016
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        thankfully it seems it is at least on hold after yesterday... they are doing an environmental impact assessment and looking at alternative routes.
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Re: Double Ditch State Historic Site by Catrinm on Saturday, 03 December 2016
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Is this the site that is under threat by the construction of oil pipeway - Sioux native Americans and others are challenging and occupying?
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    Re: Double Ditch State Historic Site by davidmorgan on Saturday, 03 December 2016
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    No, the DAPL proposal is to the west and south of Bismark.
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