Time Team America 2009

By K. Kris Hirst, About.com Guide

Fort James, near Mitchell, South Dakota, was established in 1865, as an outpost to protect European American settlers on the leading edge of settlement in the early years of the Plains Indian Wars (1862-1891). Decommissioned in 1866 and burned to the ground in 1868, Fort James was not involved in any battles at all. On August 5th, 2009, PBS airs a Time Team America segment focused on the site, its history and some preliminary investigations.

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PBS: Time Team America: Fort James

South Dakota State Historical Society

Plains Indian War Information

• PBS: New Perspectives on the West
• Archaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn
• SHA Battle of Little Bighorn (Richard Fox)

Museums of the Great Plains

• SHA: Fort Pierre
• National Park Service: Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Built in 1834 as a private fur trading fort
• South Dakota: Fort Sisseton, South Dakota. Built in 1864
• Wounded Knee Museum
• Sitting Bull Monument
• Little Bighorn Battlefield Site

Plains Indians Art

• Kiowa Drawings
• Picturing Change: The Impact of Ledger Drawings on Native American Art

Plains Indian Tribes

• Hanksville

Miscellaneous

• Prairie Fire: Civil War reenacting in the Midwest
• Society for Historical Archaeology: Historic Glass Bottle Identification & Information

Previous

• Fort Raleigh and Time Team America
• Roanoke Island Colony Resources
• The Topper Site and Time Team America
• New Philadelphia
• Range Creek
• Fort James

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