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Photographer: Roger Dean Meyer
Taken: September 8, 2007
Caption: The Indians Occupied This Land First
Additional Description: Native Americans were the first to occupy this land. Archaeologists discovered 3500 year-old camps in the vicinity. By the 1600’s, the local Algonquian-speaking population was referred to as the Dogue by the colonists; they all died or moved away by the 1700’s. These people left behind in the soil, rocks from their hearths, stone tools and thousands of pieces of stone debris from tool making.
Submitted: September 20, 2007, by Roger Dean Meyer of Yankton, South Dakota.
Database Locator Identification Number: p7345
File Size: 0.193 Megabytes

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