Lakota Path Day 1 - 2
Day 1 Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument
Also known as Custer's Last Stand. The headstones are where the 7th Cavalry soldiers fell in battle and Custer's is marked in black. His body was later moved and is now buried at West Point Military Academy his alma mater.
"Peace Through Unity" is the name of the beautiful metal sculpture that stands as a memorial to the Native American's to honor those who died in battle here.
A Plains Indian Tepee display set up outside the Visitor's Center where we listened to a Native American Park Ranger talk about the battle between the U.S. Army and the Indians who were trying to defend their nomadic way of life.
Devils Tower
Devils Tower (also known as the Bear Lodge) is 1267 feet tall and President Teddy Roosevelt declared this park America's 1st National Monument in 1906.
Ponderosa pine...did you know the sap smells like butterscotch or vanilla? The campers are all turned into "tree sniffers"!
A whole new group of tree sniffers.
After hiking around the base of the Tower the campers hiked back to our campground and stopped to see Prairie Dog Town along the Belle Fourche River.
And along the way they saw a "mule" deer and told the difference between that and a white tail deer notice the size and shape of his ears!
Day 2
Vole Buffalo Jump near Beulah, Wyoming - A natural sink hole was used by different Plains Indian tribes to trap bison in the 1500-1700s.
Bone layer number 5 of 22 the archeologists have begun to excavate in this location.
The campers are standing in front of the large scale model of Crazy Horse Memorial in the foreground and the mountain carving in the background..
Our tour guide for Crazy Horse. He's from Alabama.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the words of the sculptor Gutzon Borglum is to "communicate the founding, expansion, preservation and unification of the United States with the colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt."
Also known as Custer's Last Stand. The headstones are where the 7th Cavalry soldiers fell in battle and Custer's is marked in black. His body was later moved and is now buried at West Point Military Academy his alma mater.
"Peace Through Unity" is the name of the beautiful metal sculpture that stands as a memorial to the Native American's to honor those who died in battle here.
A Plains Indian Tepee display set up outside the Visitor's Center where we listened to a Native American Park Ranger talk about the battle between the U.S. Army and the Indians who were trying to defend their nomadic way of life.
Devils Tower
Devils Tower (also known as the Bear Lodge) is 1267 feet tall and President Teddy Roosevelt declared this park America's 1st National Monument in 1906.
Ponderosa pine...did you know the sap smells like butterscotch or vanilla? The campers are all turned into "tree sniffers"!
A whole new group of tree sniffers.
After hiking around the base of the Tower the campers hiked back to our campground and stopped to see Prairie Dog Town along the Belle Fourche River.
And along the way they saw a "mule" deer and told the difference between that and a white tail deer notice the size and shape of his ears!
Day 2
Vole Buffalo Jump near Beulah, Wyoming - A natural sink hole was used by different Plains Indian tribes to trap bison in the 1500-1700s.
Bone layer number 5 of 22 the archeologists have begun to excavate in this location.
The campers are standing in front of the large scale model of Crazy Horse Memorial in the foreground and the mountain carving in the background..
Our tour guide for Crazy Horse. He's from Alabama.
Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the words of the sculptor Gutzon Borglum is to "communicate the founding, expansion, preservation and unification of the United States with the colossal statues of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt."
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