Southern side of the Sheyenne River along 140th Ave.[2]
Nearest city
Lisbon, North Dakota
Area
4.5 acres (1.8 ha)
NRHP reference No.
80002925[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP
February 8, 1980
Designated NHL
December 23, 2016
The Biesterfeldt Site (Shahienawoju in Lakota, and designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 32RM1) is an archaeological site near Lisbon, North Dakota, United States, located along the Sheyenne River. The site is the only documented village of earth lodges in the watershed of the Red River, and the only one that has been unambiguously affiliated with the Cheyenne tribe. An independent group of Cheyennes is believed to have occupied it c. 1724–1780. In 1980, the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its archaeological significance.[1] It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2016.[3]
^ ab"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^Wood, W. Raymond (1955). "Pottery Types From The Biesterfeldt Site J North Dakota". Plains Anthropologist. 2 (3): 3–12. doi:10.1080/2052546.1955.11908171. JSTOR 25666201.
^National Park Service (March 3, 2017), Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 2/16/2017 through 3/2/2017, archived from the original on March 7, 2017, retrieved March 7, 2017
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