Excerpt from The Phase I Archeological Research Program for the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, Vol. 2: Ethnohistorical Studies The Knife River Indian Villages National His, toric Site is on the Missouri River in Mercer County, North Dakota, just above the point where the Knife River empties into the Missouri River. This locale was once inhabited by the Hidatsa Indians, whose ancestors first settled along the banks of the Missouri in this general area about AD 1200. These people were the first known village farmers to occupy this part of the Missouri valley, and they continued to occupy the area down to the historic period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.