An abridged version of this story appeared in Issue 7 of The Ahlahasa. My first encounter with pseudoarchaeology was in elementary school, and it was unwittingly. One day, while me and my mother were...

In 1835, the topographer Albert Miller Lea of the U.S. Dragoons surveyed the southern portion of the territory the U.S. government had recently acquired; Minnesota Territory. With rolling prairies and...