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Show The Salt I rib SUNDAY dS City of Great Falls apes for Corrps of Discovery Party BY NANCY HOBBS THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE GREAT FALLS, Mont. Fora good time, start planning nowto be here on July 4, 2005 Plans already are being made for that day in this historic town: where Meriwether Lewis and WilliamClark celebrated the na tion’s IndependenceDay194 The occasion, particularly be cause it fell on July 4th, war ranted celebrating, which the men did by drinking the last of their grog, said Jane Weber, di rector of the Lewis and Clark Na onalHistorie Trail Interpretive years ago. If you do the math. the reason for all the hoopiain six years is obvious the bicenten: nial of the Corpsof Discovery's stopat Great Falls aftera gruel Buffalo Jump In Montana Sacred Ground @ Continued from J-1 ERNE go inside the tipi andappreciate what life used to be like.” The tipi, built inside the center by Blackfoot Indians from Brown: g, Mont., is 16 feet in diameter covered with 14 buffalo hides tails attached, as is the tribal tradition Emphasizing the animals doesn't meanthe peoples’ stories relating to the area aren't impor: tant or will be ignored, Todd said A storytelling circle is set up in the center's mainlobby area, where elders fromsurrounding tribes, including Blackfoot, Assiniboine. Salish/ Kootenai, ChippewaCree, Siou J tre, Little Shell, Crow, Ojibway and Northern Cheyenne, will be invited torelatethestories of their forebears through oral tra ditions a The drama ofthe buffalo jump most effectively captures the au dience not inside the center but at therocky site. Gazing down fromthe overlookontop of the bluff, or looking up at the cliffs from below, the story becomesre: al Stone placement, skeletal evi dence and crudetools show how early hunters were able to drive buffaloes off thecliff s edge “This was long before horses 2005, ing portageof dugouts and equip ment around five waterfalls on the Missouri River. ents of that historic at Falls are undoubt ing to be popular, she added with a smile. “We're poised to have really fun 4th of July in the initial butchering appears to have been doi visible, with grass anil SAB ing filled in the scarre severa cades. But ne Carbon-dating of materials visitors found at the base of the cliff con firmsthat people used the site as backearlier. used for pemmicanand for meat preservation are still there 1 prolific community of prairie dogs. which, when joined by buf Based upon the evi dence that has been recovered archaeologists have determined that the slaughters were not nec essarily seasonal: besides occur falo, survive harmoniously ring in the fall, as was previously Mever, who started more than a decade ago organt ommu nity and church leadersto protect believed. they were sta: other seasons. apparent from the analysis of buffalo teeth and the bones of unborn calves recovered Ulm Pishkun. said he hopes cul tural bridge-building that saw the park’s expansion and inter pretive center become a reality at thesite It is the lack of evidence that makes certainties difficult though, said Todd. will continue. Carl Fourstar, a member of the Before this andother pishkuns were protect Assiniboine tribe who lives Wolf Point, Mont.. ed, they were routinely scoured by pothunters and even by autho and wa in It’s Our olvea in the pl agreed that rized commercial bone-mining Dur World War II, mineral 5 on state school trust lands i includingthe base of the Ulm Pishkun - see many bone of the bluff, however Mever say the native fauna are thriving just were hundreds of years ago, Buf falo berries and snow a buffalo jump as early as ALD. 1000, said Meyer. but because ar chaeologists have not dug to the bottom layer of artifacts, specula tion is that its first use could date BiG NATIONWIDE MEMORIALDAY SALE ONLY! 2 Days TEIN were sold to opera tions mining the area for caleium- and phosphorous-rich bones. Hundreds of tons of bone material was avated from this site alone to be ground up for an imal feed and fertilizer {tis no small irony, said Mey er, that those mineral rights were sold by the state in 1946 for $600, and a half century later we're building a $2.25 million in terpretive center to showit off to pre in cooperation the state making an effoi serve the area” with native tribes All too often the state and In sare at odds... In this have been put for every body None of the tribes has eve claimed territorial rights the Save 10°, 20°, 30°40°upto 50° on Millions ai Millions of pares of fabrics! pishkun, but all have obser The mined area isn't easily were introduced. They had to use their ingenuity to make things happen.” said Todd. He points Teme)ele out the remnants of rock cairns. built about 24 feet apart and ar Drapery & Upholstery rangedinlinescalled “drive lanes” or “lines” from different points ofthe plateau, all leading to the cliff's edge. 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