Blood Run Site

43.47°N 96.58°W / 43.47; -96.58

Blood Run Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
Nearest citySioux Falls, South Dakota, Granite, Iowa, and Canton, South Dakota
Built1300 (possibly built over three millennia) though the site was inhabited regularly for 8500 years in other than mound era dwelling.
ArchitectHo-Chunk, Ioway, Otoe, Missouri
Architectural styleCivic, Ceremonial, Effigy, and Burial Mounds. Including a 1.25 miles (2.01 km) long snake mound destroyed for railroad fill (1930s).
NRHP reference No.70000246
Significant dates
Added to NRHPAugust 29, 1970
Designated NHLAugust 29, 1970

The Blood Run Site is an archaeological site on the border of the US states of Iowa and South Dakota. The site was essentially populated for 8,500 years, within which earthworks structures were built by the Oneota Culture and occupied by descendant tribes such as the Ioway, Otoe, Missouri, and shared with Quapaw and later Kansa, Osage, and Omaha (who were both Omaha and Ponca at the time) people. The site was so named on account of the iron-stained soil.

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