“Sioux Indian Mosaic Snake Butte”
215
1957
Hughes
(Note: any text in italics has been taken from the official SDSHS records.)
Marker Text
.9 of a Mile
An Aricara lookout surprised by a Sioux War part 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, east side by Oahe Dam on 1804 (2006)