Menoken, ND

The Menoken Indian Village Site, also known as Menoken Site, Verendrye Site or Apple Creek Site is an archeological site near Bismarck, North Dakota. The site, that of a fortified village occupied c. Menoken was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. The short version is that Menoken carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Menoken: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Menoken is located on 171st Street NE, north of Menoken, about 10 miles east of Bismarck. The site is managed by the state as the Menoken Indian Village State Historic Site.