GC2T20A Traditional Cache Mondo's NAT # 065 - Atsina
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: mondou2 @ | Hide Date: 04/11/2011 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 55.950 W105° 01.639 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 2
Dogs  Takes less than an hour  No Significant hike  No Difficult climbing  Available at all times  Available during winter  Bicycles 
Native American Tribe series.
Atsina


A band of Arapaho, the Atsina roamed the plains between the Missouri and Saskatchewan Rivers. This Algonquian-speaking band was sometimes confused with another tribe called Gros Ventre, a tribe of Minitari Hidatsa that lived nearby. French trappers interpreted the sign language for "Atsina" (hands moved along the torso) as the similar sign used for those neighboring Hidatsa. The sign for Atsina meant "hunger," while the sign for Minatari Hidatsa referred to the chest tattoos the men displayed.

A Plains tribe, the nomadic Atsina followed the bison herds, living in tepees and trading with other Indians for the trade goods and produce they needed. Guns and ammunition they had received from the British gave them an advantage over other Plains bands like the Shoshone.

Lewis and Clark often thought they were close to the Atsina or had encountered them. When the Corps met the Lemhi Shoshone, the tribe had been attacked recently by the Atsina, losing about 20 men in the raid. Later, on the return journey in 1806, Lewis mistakenly identified a group of Blackfeet Indians as "Minatarees of the Prairie," another name for the Atsina.

By 1888 the Atsina had been removed to a reservation at Fort Belknap, Montana, which they shared with the Assiniboin. According to the 1990 census there were 2,800 Atsina remaining.
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17 Logs: Found it 12  Didn't find it 2  Write note 1  Update Coordinates 2  

Found it 06/11/2019 By Storm8422
Love the history lesson. Thanks.

Found it 06/11/2019 By Clownloach69
Hard to find good one

Found it 05/11/2019 By mipi13
Tftc

Found it 05/05/2019 By thenorthwall
Tftc!

Found it 05/05/2019 By bolo1222
Tftc

Found it 09/13/2018 By LucianoJE
Hard to find but that made it exciting when we did.

Found it 09/13/2018 By iammanda0228
Nice hide

Update Coordinates 08/10/2018 By mondou2
N39° 55.950 W105° 01.639
Coordinates changed from:
N 39° 55.954 W 105° 1.619

Coordinates changed to:
N 39° 55.950 W 105° 1.639

Distance from original: 96.7 feet or 29.5 meters.

Replaced at new hiding spot.

Didn't find it 08/02/2018 By sjstehno
Out on a walk and we couldn’t find it either.

Didn't find it 05/09/2018 By gordon1018
Fence was damaged in wind storm, I think the cache might have disappeared with it.

Write note 05/09/2018 By gordon1018
Persons fence was damaged and being replaced because of wind. I think the cache may have disappeared with it

Found it 03/11/2018 By rockthekazba
Good place, thanks for the cache

Found it 02/28/2018 By turtle933
A quick find today-thanks for placing this series.

Update Coordinates 01/27/2018 By mondou2
N39° 55.954 W105° 01.619
Coordinates changed from:
N 39° 55.952 W 105° 1.624

Coordinates changed to:
N 39° 55.954 W 105° 1.619

Distance from original: 26.6 feet or 8.1 meters.

New container by CoBiker

Found it 01/18/2018 By CoBiker
Cooords had me in the middle of the grass. Expanded my search and found an empty camoed film canister with no lid at the fence. I left a replacement pill bottle at N 39° 55.954 W 105° 01.619

Found it 08/23/2017 By carljj1031
Sweet

Found it 08/17/2017 By 5niper28
Easy find