“Sioux Indian Mosaic”
27
1954
Hughes
(Note: any text in italics has been taken from the official SDSHS records.)
Marker Text
An Aricara lookout surprised by a Sioux War party and badly wounded took flight to warn his kinsmen. He ran about one-half mile and keeled over dead. The Sioux, admiring his bravery, placed a rock for each drop of his blood and a cairn where he died. They signed it with a tribal band insignia of a turtle. The turtle, many of the trail stones remain in place.
Location
Hughes County, SD Highway 1804, 3 miles north of Pierre (2006)