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A Photographic Journey up the Missouri River in North Dakota - Knife River Indian Villages

 Photographs of the Missouri River and Knife River Indian Villages

Power plant on the Missouri River

Credit: U.S. Geological Survey

Sediment-laden (muddy) water from the Knife River flowing into the Missouri River

June 19, 2001

Credit: Environmental Protection Agency

Sediment-laden (muddy) water from the Knife River flowing into the Missouri River

June 19, 2001

Credit: Environmental Protection Agency

Sediment-laden (muddy) water from the Knife River flowing into the Missouri River

June 19, 2001

Credit: Environmental Protection Agency

Sediment-laden (muddy) water from the Knife River flowing into the Missouri River

June 19, 2001

Credit: Environmental Protection Agency

Sediment-laden (muddy) water from the Knife River flowing into the Missouri River

June 19, 2001

Credit: Environmental Protection Agency

Mandan Village - A Distant View

George Catlin

1861-1869

Credit: National Gallery of Art

Prairie Meadows Burning

George Catlin

1861-1869

Credit: National Gallery of Art

Winter village of the Manitaries (Hidatsa) in Dakota Territory

Karl Bodmer

1833-34

Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, Still Pictures Branch

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, Stanton North Dakota

Credit: North Dakota Tourism Department

Missouri River near Stanton, looking upstream

October 3, 1976

Credit: U.S. Geological Survey

Missouri River above Stanton

October 3, 1976

Credit: U.S. Geological Survey

West bank of Missouri River above Stanton

June 20, 2000

Credit: U.S. Geological Survey

Low-flow conditions and exposed snags on the Missouri River north of Stanton

August 19, 2004

Credit: U.S. Geological Survey

Missouri River below Garrison Dam, looking downstream from right bank bluff

February 1949

Credit: U.S. Geological Survey

Missouri River below Garrison Dam, looking upstream from bluff

February 1949

Credit: U.S. Geological Survey

Missouri River below Garrison Dam

1981

Credit: U.S. Geological Survey

Missouri River below Garrison Dam

Credit: U.S. Geological Survey

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