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The mounds, including the Earth Lodge, where indigenous people held council meetings for 1,000 years until their forced removal in the 1820s, were initially protected as a national monument by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Instructors highlight history like keeping prized horses in an earth lodge and the North Dakota Six Pack, a group of bronc and bull riders that included MHA Nation citizen Joe Chase, who shined on the rodeo circuit in the 1950s, said Lori Nelson, the college’s director of Agriculture and Land Grants.

Harvested tobacco is hanging in the site’s earth lodge to dry.

Site Superintendent Alisha Deegan said visitors comment most often on the gardens and earth lodge.

Kath said the tobacco will hang in the earth lodge until it’s fully dry.