Pipestone National Monument: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Pipestone National Monument
Regions 3, 4, & 5 Park Cultural Landscapes Program. 2007. Pipestone National Monument: Cultural Landscapes Inventory, Pipestone National Monument. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 501118. U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. NPS Midwest Regional Office, Omaha, Nebraska / CRIS-CL Database
Inventory Unit Description: Pipestone National Monument is best described as an ethnographic landscape. The Monument is physically characterized by the undulating prairie divided by Sioux quartzite outcrops encompassing 281.78 acres. The landscape includes the pipestone quarries, sacred glacial erratics, sacred quartzite formations, and tallgrass prairie, as well as buildings, structures and trails constructed as part of the Civilian Conservation Corp – Indian Division (CCC-ID), Mission 66 and Parkscape programs. The Monument complex appears today much as it did during the period of significance of 1600 to 1971 when more intensive use of the pipestone quarries apparently began, and the later developments by the CCC-ID and NPS Mission 66 program. This period encompasses the construction of the major developments including the roads, structures, fencelines, and landscape vegetation. Natural systems and features, spatial organization, vegetation, circulation, buildings and structures, smallscale features, land use and cultural traditions are contributing characteristics of the cultural landscape. Overall, the landscape is in good condition due in part to the long-term management of native tallgrass prairie and limited intrusion on the built environment. Pipestone National Monument is nationally significant under Criteria A, C and D. The historic district is significant on a national level under historic Theme III: Expressing Cultural Values and Theme VII: Transforming the Environment. The historic district retains integrity according to the National Register of Historic Places’ standards which defines integrity through location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling and association.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Regions 3, 4, & 5 Park Cultural Landscapes Program
- Date of Issue
- 2007-01-23
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
- Units
- MWR , PIPE
- Keywords
- American Indian, archeology, architecture, Arikara, art, Cannomok'e, CCC, CCC-ID, ceremony, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Civilian Conservation Corps, community planning and development, conservation, Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, cultural tradition, entertainment-recreation, ethnic heritage-native american, ethnographic landscape, Expressing Cultural Values, Flandreau Santee Sioux, Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, glacial erratic, Hidatsa, Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, landscape architecture, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Lower Sioux Indian Community, Mandan, Minnesota, mission 66, Native American, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Omaha Tribe, Otoe-Missouria Nation, Parkscape, Pipestone Indian Reservation, Pipestone Indian School, pipestone quarry, politics-government, Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma, Prairie Island Mdewakanton Dakota Indian Community, quarry, quartzite, religion, Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Santee Sioux Tribe, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe, Spirit Lake National, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Sun Dance, tallgrass prairie, Three Affiliated Tribes, Three Maidens, Transforming the Environment, Upper Sioux Community of Minnesota, Yankton Sioux