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〕 | lat_d = 42 | lat_m = 52 | lat_s = 28 | lat_NS = N | long_d = 96 | long_m = 57 | long_s = 33 | long_EW = W | area_unit = acre | area_imperial = 320 | area_round = 1 | established = 2001 | management_body = South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks | map = South Dakota Locator Map.PNG | map_caption = Location of Spirit Mound Historic Prairie in South Dakota | map_locator = South Dakota }} Spirit Mound Historic Prairie is a state park of South Dakota, USA, featuring a prominent hill on the Great Plains. The Plains Indians of the region considered Spirit Mound the home of dangerous spirits or little people; members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition climbed it on August 25, 1804. The park was established in 2002.〔Sapp, Methea; Enright, Kelly; Nichols, Terri; Ney, Jason; and Dreese, Donelle N. ''America's Natural Places.'' Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, 2010, p. 102.〕 It is located about north of Vermillion, South Dakota.〔McMacken, Robin. ''The Dakotas: Off the Beaten Path.'' Guilford, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, 2008, p. 44.〕 ==About Spirit Mound== Stories and religious beliefs about "Little People" are common to many if not most Native American tribes in the West.〔(Saindon, Robert A. "Lewis and Clark and the Legend of the 'Little People'." In ''Explorations Into the World of Lewis and Clark.'' Robert A. Saindon, ed. Great Falls, Mont.: Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, 2003, p. 478. )〕〔(Plenty Coups and Linderman, Frank Bird. ''Plenty-Coups, Chief of the Crows.'' Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2002, p. 23. )〕〔(Lawrence, Edward. ''Mysteries and Legends of Montana: True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained.'' Helena, Mont.: Twodot, 1997, p. 17. )〕 In 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition stayed for a time with a band of Wičhíyena Sioux on the Vermillion River in modern-day South Dakota. On August 25, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and 10 other men traveled about north of the river's junction with the Missouri River to see the "mountain of the Little People".〔(Saindon, "Lewis and Clark and the Legend of the 'Little People'," in ''Explorations Into the World of Lewis and Clark,'' 2003, p. 479-480. )〕 Lewis wrote in his journal that the Little People were "deavals" (devils) with very large heads, about high, and very alert to any intrusions into their territory.〔(Lewis, Meriwether and Clark, William. ''The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, Vol. 3: August 25, 1804 – April 6, 1805.'' Gary E. Moulton, ed. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1987, p. 505. )〕 The Sioux said that the devils carried sharp arrows which could strike at a very long distance, and that they killed anyone who approached their mound.〔〔(Lawrence, ''Mysteries and Legends of Montana: True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained,'' 1997, p. 18. )〕 The Little People so terrified the local population, Lewis reported, that the Maha (Omaha), Ottoes (Otoe), and Sioux would not go near the place.〔 The Lakota people who came to live near the "Spirit Mound" after the Wičhíyena Sioux have a story no more than 250 years old which describes how a band of 350 warriors came near the mound late at night and were nearly wiped out by the ferocious Little People (the survivors were crippled for life).〔(Saindon, "Lewis and Clark and the Legend of the 'Little People'," in ''Explorations Into the World of Lewis and Clark,'' 2003, p. 481. )〕 Due to extensive damming of the Missouri River, Spirit Mound is one of the few places which historians can identify as a precise spot upon which Lewis and Clark stood .〔Fanselow, Julie. ''Traveling the Lewis and Clark Trail.'' Guilford, Conn.: Falcon Guides, 2007, p. 72.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Spirit Mound Historic Prairie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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