Publication: Anthropology Faculty Publications, Vol. 110
Author: F. A. Calabrese
Date of Publication: 1987
URL: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/anthropologyfacpub/110
Copyright Info: open access
Description
The Knife River Indian Villages are located in North Dakota near the confluence of the Knife and Missouri Rivers, just north of the contemporary town of Stanton, North Dakota. They lie within the area between the Garrison Dam to the north and the Oahe Reservoir to the south, the last remaining unflooded segment of the Missouri River valley in the Dakotas. Within the area are river floodplains, terraces, dissected breaks and upland rolling terrain. Forests occur on the floodplain and lower terraces with a variety of native and exotic grasses found on the breaks and uplands.