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Submitted by AKFisher on Monday, 04 September 2023  Page Views: 157

Natural PlacesSite Name: Devil's Tower National Monument Alternative Name: Bear Lodge Butte
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 110.12 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The Northwest Mountains Type: Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature
Nearest Town: Hulett, WY
Latitude: 44.588680N  Longitude: 104.69969W
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Devil''s Tower National Monument
Devil''s Tower National Monument submitted by AKFisher : Devils Tower, on west bank of Belle Fourche River, south of Hulett. Crook Wyoming. Circa 1900. Plate 17, as Ives Three Color Process, in U.S. Geological Survey. Professional paper 32. 1905, figure 1 in U.S. Geological Survey. Folio 150. 1907. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Natural Stone / Erratic / Other Natural Feature in Crook County, Wyoming.
Devils Tower (also known as Bear Lodge Butte)[8] is a butte, possibly laccolithic, composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Ranger District of the Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (264 m) from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet (1,558 m) above sea level.

Devils Tower was the first United States national monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt.[9] The monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres (545 ha).

Name:
Native American names for the monolith include "Bear's House" or "Bear's Lodge" (or "Bear's Tipi", "Home of the Bear", "Bear's Lair"); Cheyenne, Lakota: Matȟó Thípila, Crow: Daxpitcheeaasáao ("Home of Bears"[10]), "Aloft on a Rock" (Kiowa), "Tree Rock", "Great Gray Horn",[11] and "Brown Buffalo Horn" (Lakota: Ptehé Ǧí)

Native American cultural beliefs:
According to the traditional beliefs of Native American peoples, the Kiowa and Lakota, a group of girls went out to play and were spotted by several giant bears, who began to chase them. In an effort to escape the bears, the girls climbed atop a rock, fell to their knees, and prayed to the Great Spirit to save them. Hearing their prayers, the Great Spirit made the rock rise from the ground towards the heavens so that the bears could not reach the girls. The bears, in an effort to climb the rock, left deep claw marks in the sides, which had become too steep to climb. Those are the marks which appear today on the sides of Devils Tower. When the girls reached the sky, they were turned into the stars of the Pleiades.[22]

Another version tells that two Sioux boys wandered far from their village when Mato the bear, a huge creature that had claws the size of tipi poles, spotted them, and wanted to eat them for breakfast. He was almost upon them when the boys prayed to Wakan Tanka the Creator to help them. They rose up on a huge rock, while Mato tried to get up from every side, leaving huge scratch marks as he did. Finally, he sauntered off, disappointed and discouraged. The bear came to rest east of the Black Hills at what is now Bear Butte. Wanblee, the eagle, helped the boys off the rock and back to their village. A painting depicting this legend by artist Herbert A. Collins hangs over the fireplace in the visitor center at Devils Tower.

In a Cheyenne version of the story, the giant bear pursues the girls and kills most of them. Two sisters escape back to their home with the bear still tracking them. They tell two boys that the bear can only be killed with an arrow shot through the underside of its foot. The boys have the sisters lead the bear to Devils Tower and trick it into thinking they have climbed the rock. The boys attempt to shoot the bear through the foot while it repeatedly attempts to climb up and slides back down leaving more claw marks each time. The bear was finally scared off when an arrow came very close to its left foot. This last arrow continued to go up and never came down.[23]

Wooden Leg, a Northern Cheyenne, related another legend told to him by an old man as they were traveling together past the Devils Tower around 1866–1868. An Indigenous man decided to sleep at the base of Bear Lodge next to a buffalo head. In the morning he found that both he and the buffalo head had been transported to the top of the rock by the Great Medicine with no way down. He spent another day and night on the rock with no food or water. After he had prayed all day and then gone to sleep, he awoke to find that the Great Medicine had brought him back down to the ground, but left the buffalo head at the top near the edge. Wooden Leg maintained that the buffalo head was clearly visible through the old man's spyglass. At the time, the tower had never been climbed and a buffalo head at the top was otherwise inexplicable.[24]

The buffalo head gives this story special significance for the Northern Cheyenne. All the Cheyenne maintained in their camps a sacred teepee to the Great Medicine containing the tribal sacred objects. In the case of the Northern Cheyenne, the sacred object was a buffalo head.[25]

N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) was given the name Tsoai-talee (Rock Tree Boy) by Pohd-lohk, a Kiowa elder, linking the child to the Devils Tower bear myth. To reinforce this mythic connection, his parents took him there.[26] Momaday incorporated the bear myth as unifying subtext into his 1989 novel The Ancient Child.[27]. Source: Wikipedia (see link below).

References:
8. Mato Tipila, or Bear's Lodge, the stunning monolith of stone in northeastern Wyoming that settlers dubbed 'Devil's Tower. Jason Mark, Satellites in the High Country: Searching for the Wild in the Age of Man (2015), p. 166. "Devil's Tower, beyond the Black Hills, forms the Buffalo's Head, with the face, Bear Butte as the Buffalo's Nose, and Inyan Kaga as the Black Buffalo Horn." Jessica Dawn Palmer, The Dakota Peoples: A History of the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota through 1863 (2011), p. 203.
22. Robert Burnham, Jr.: Burnham's Celestial Handbook, Volume 3, page 1867
23. Marquis, pp. 53–54
24. Marquis, pp. 54–55
25. Marquis p. 106 and p. 152
27. An Overview of Post-1960 Native American Literature. Native American Writers. Retrieved July 17, 2020.

Bibliography:
Marquis, Thomas B. (2003). Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, Bison Books. ISBN 0-8032-8288-5. OCLC 52423964, 57065339. Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer.

Further reading and information:
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_Tower<2>
National Park Service
http://www.nps.gov/deto/index.htm<4>
National Park Service History
npshistory.com/series/archeology/rmr/9/report.pdf<6>

Directions:
From Hulett, WY via WY-24 W and WY-110 W, 12.9 mi.
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Devil's Tower National Monument
Devil's Tower National Monument submitted by AKFisher : Park entrance area. Photo credit: National Park Service (.gov). (Vote or comment on this photo)

Devil's Tower National Monument
Devil's Tower National Monument submitted by AKFisher : A sign informs visitors of the Native American heritage. Photo credit: Wiki (Ildar Sagdejev) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Devil's Tower National Monument
Devil's Tower National Monument submitted by AKFisher : Devils Tower National Park sign describing the three possible origins: stock, laccolith or volcanic plug. Photo credit: Wiki (Pi3.124) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Devil's Tower National Monument
Devil's Tower National Monument submitted by AKFisher : Devils Tower in Devils Tower National Monument, Crook County, Wyoming, United States. Photo credit: Wiki: (Jonathunder) (Vote or comment on this photo)

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