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Collection Summary
Collection: 2019P162 - Leo D. Harris Photo Collection
Folder: 0001
Item: 00016
Title: Congregational Mission School, Elbowoods (N.D.)
Date: 09/08/1933
Creator: Harris, Leo D
Summary: A view of the Fort Berthold Indian Mission School in Elbowoods, N.D. A slide is visible in the school's front yard, and a house is visible next to the school.||Son of the Star (Arikara), Crows Breast (Hidatsa) and Red Cow (Mandan), gave land for the Congregational mission in 1876 at Like-a-Fishhook Village/Old Fort Berthold. In 1897 the mission moved about 20 miles to Elbowoods, where these facilities were built. Elbowoods was flooded after the completion of the Garrison Dam in 1954.
Red ID: PH_I_149360 Image ID: 175614 Image Notes: 2019-P-162-00016

Collection: 2019P162 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Leo D. Harris Photo Collection
Date: 1925-circa 1960

Summary: Images of people and events on the Fort Berthold Reservation including dedication of the Four Bears Bridge, the Four Bears monument and the monument to the Fort Laramie Tribal Council of 1851, as well as images of the men who repatriated the Water Buster Bundle.

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