{"id":3187,"slug":"knife-river-villages-stanton-north-dakota","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Knife River is the villages — the Awatixa that's the Sacagawea, the '1525' that's the established. The earthlodges are the visible — the 50 that's the Lower, the '31 sites' that's the remaining. The smallpox was the '37 — the 'greatly reduced' that's the population, the trade hub that's the ended.","The Lewis and Clark is the '04 — the Fort Mandan that's the winter, the Charbonneau that's the hired. The Catlin is the '32 — the painting that's the record, the 'earth-covered lodges' that's the title. Knife River is the hub — the 700 years that's the settlement, the Sacagawea that's the home.","The file keeps Knife River: the Sacagawea village, the '37 smallpox, the Lewis and Clark winter, and the earthlodges.","Knife River is the archive's North Dakota file — the earthlodge people."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Knife River is the archive's North Dakota file — the trade hub.","A village keeps its lodges — the file's suggestion being that Knife River's hold is the gathering: the '700 years' that's the settlement, the 'Sacagawea' that's the resident, and the '37' that's the end."]}],"name":"Knife River Villages","aliases":[],"type":"SITE","type_label":"Site","cats":["LOCAL_FOLKLORE","LEGEND_SITE","INDIGENOUS","ARCHAEOLOGICAL"],"groups":["legends"],"desc":"Sacagawea’s home—the Hidatsa earthlodge villages.","full_desc":"A site in Stanton, North Dakota, Knife River Villages is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Sacagawea’s home—the Hidatsa earthlodge villages. The presences in its file go unnamed: the villagers, the record says. The dossier holds 2 reported claims, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Stanton","county":null,"state":"North Dakota","postal":null,"region":"Midwest","lat":47.318483,"lon":-101.381965,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site","research_notes":"UW batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":3188,"type":"LEGEND","description":"The site’s lore is documented. Witnesses name it The villagers; the name travels further than the proof. The reports at Knife River Villages are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. 'Knife River Villages' carries the account. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":"The villagers","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Knife River Villages","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_River_Indian_Villages","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]},{"id":3189,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures at the villages. Knife River Villages' file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. 'Knife River Villages' carries the account. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Knife River Villages","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_River_Indian_Villages","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The villages’ occupation is documented. Knife River Villages' past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'Knife River Villages' documents the entry. The date is part of the site's documented spine.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Knife River Villages","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_River_Indian_Villages","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"The site’s lore is documented. Knife River Villages in Stanton, North Dakota carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. 'Knife River Villages' carries the account. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Knife River Villages","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_River_Indian_Villages","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"The villagers","claimed_identity":"The villagers","verified":null,"summary":"The site’s lore is documented. The file calls it The villagers. The site in Stanton, North Dakota gives the account a documented setting: real place, real history, unresolved reports. The report is preserved in sources like 'Knife River Villages'. The name travels further than the proof; the sightings keep renewing the lease.","behavior":"The site’s lore is documented.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Knife River Villages","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_River_Indian_Villages","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site access varies; verify before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Knife River Villages","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_River_Indian_Villages","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":2,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}