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Natives
of the Earth
Minnesota
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present
The Reservation Tour 2003
Due
to the war in Iraq we realize that people are wary of travelling
by plane and so those living in Europe and Africa who are interested
in coming on the tour are worried because they feel they may
miss out. Please don't worry if this is the case because we
have decided to repeat the tour in 2004. Let's all hope that
the world is in a more stable position by then, and all of our
troops are back home safely.
Day
1 - Sunday, July 6, 2003
Arrive
in Pipestone, (You are welcome to come in a day earlier
if you prefer,)
Guided tour around 'Spirit of Peace' museum owned
by Chuck Derby.
5pm: go to Dakota Dreams for the night…….
A take-away (chinese) meal, snacks and movies* in Woodstock.
(*'Thunderheart', 'Dances with Wolves', 'Buffalo
Girls')
(over 7 hours of movies, these feature
the places we will be going to on the tour, we will
watch at least one of them just to get you in the mood!)
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Day
2 - Monday, July 7, 2003
Breakfast
in Langes by 9 am,
go to Monument for a quick walk around (1 hour)
11.am leave for Flandreau for lunch
1 pm. Leave for Mitchell
2:30 pm. See Corn Palace, then move on to the Prehistoric
Indian Village (1 ˝ hours)
4:00 Leave for Chamberlain
6:30 Book into motel for the night and eat in Chamberlain/Oacoma.
(The motel is close to Al's
Oasis that has a great buffet.)
Relax for the night.
(There
will be pools in all motels we stay in)
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Day
3 - Tuesday, July 8, 2003
Breakfast at Al's
Oasis by 9 am,
9:30: Akta
Museum at the St. Joseph's Indian School. (1 ˝ hours)
11 am: Big Bend Dam and museum Crow Creek reservation
(1 hour)
1 pm: Lower Brule Casino for lunch (1 hour)
Continue on to Pierre on the 'Native American Scenic
Byway'
3:30 pm: Arrive in Pierre (It
will be another 4 hours to the motel so please get a
snack in Pierre if you want to)
from Pierre through the area where 'Dances with Wolves'
was made, via Hayes, to Wall,6:30 (7:30)
(We
add an extra hour here because of moving onto Mountain
time)
where we will have our evening meal and will be staying
for two nights.
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Day
4 - Wednesday, July 9, 2003
Breakfast at Wall
Drug and a look around this world wide famous store
10 am: Leave for the Badlands
There are various places to stop along the
way to take photographs. This scenery is very much different
to the areas you have seen up until now. Very rugged and
picturesque.
We will be heading down to the Pine Ridge Reservation
to see the Wounded
Knee cemetery. (4:00) This is a very historical and
spiritual area. We can spend an hour at the memorial.
(Please
bring tobacco if you wish to leave an offering).
5:00: back to Wall for the night (7:00)
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Day
5 - Thursday, July 10, 2003
After
an early breakfast we will set off for Rapid City, and
a full day of site- seeing…….
9:00 Leave for Rapid City and the Black Hills
10:00 Go to see Prairie
Edge……. (Don't buy too much!)
(1 hour)
11:30 Mount Rushmore (1 hour)
1:00 Crazy
Horse Mountain and lunch (2 hours)
3:00 leave for Deadwood
4:30 arrive in Deadwood, and register in Motel.
Deadwood is a historic town and there are various things
to see.
The cemetery (Boot Hill) is the final resting place of
Calamity Jane, who is known for riding the Deadwood stage,
and Wild Bill Hickok, a famous gambler. ('Buffalo
Girls') Tours
leave at various times during the day… you will be in
time for the 5pm tour if you wish to go
This town has casinos if you want to go in them!
(There
is also supposed to be the world's third biggest sculpture
in Deadwood too, owned by Kevin Costner, it is of a buffalo
hunt, as depicted in DWW. It is going to be opened
to the public in April 2003. We will find out more information
about this before we leave on the tour.)
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Day
6 - Friday, July, 2003
After
breakfast we drive out to Wyoming, passing by Devils
Tower, (1 ˝ hours out) and up into the Northern Cheyenne
reservation in Montana. This is a longish drive and
so we will be stopping for lunch in Sheriden WY, before
driving on through the reservation to the Little Big
Horn Battlefield National Monument.
9:00
Leave Deadwood
10:30 Drive by Devils Tower, (
stop for photograph taking and bathroom only)
1 pm: stop for lunch in Sheriden Wyoming.
2:00 move on to the Little Big Horn
4:00 Little
Big Horn National Monument (2 hours) then move on
to Miles City, MT for the night which is another 2 hours
further east.
8:00 A late night for registering into the Motel.
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Day
7 - Saturday, July 12, 2003
Today
we want to reach Flandreau in South Dakota in time for
the grand entry of the powwow at 7pm.
This will be a great culmination of the week for you all.
9:00
leave Miles City for Mobridge. (we
lose an hour on the trip back because of the change back
to Central time)
2 pm: Have lunch and go to see the grave
of Sitting Bull on the Standing Rock reservation.
(1 ˝ hours)
3:30: Head for Flandreau………….
7:30 Powwow at Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribal powwow grounds
grand opening at 7ish (Indian
Time).
When the powwow has finished everyone over to Woodstock
for the night.
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End
of tour, but if you are staying on for a day or two there
is still the Pipestone County Museum to see, and you could
have another look around the Monument , and maybe Chuck
could take you to the quarry area and explain more about
the quarrying process if you wish. Please let us know
on the form if you would like to do this.
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If we have a lot
of people interested in this tour we will of course do it on more than
one occasion.
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