Vickers Culture Site

•  sites are located across the Pembina/Souris plains (Nicholson 1990, 1991: Nicholson and Hamilton 1997, 2001; Nicholson and Malainey 1995; Hamilton and Nicholson 1999)
•  several sites are located in the distinctive sand dune and pond micro-environment of the Lauder Sand Hills
•  interpret the unique micro-environment, highlighting the high resource capacity of this "forest island" in the grasslands and the Vickers Culture, circa. AD 1450-1600

Site Development

•  see Oxbow Culture

Northeastern Plains Village Sites

•  Sites are identified by distinctive, thin ceramics, dating ca. AD 1200-1600
•  2 examples of sites would be the Snyder II Site (DgMg-15) mentioned previously and the Feland Site (DgMh-48) on 4-1-28 Wl (Syms 1977,1980)

Site Development

• see Oxbow Culture

Public Excavation Program

• public excavation programs are popular and develop long lasting fascination; see publications such as Archaeology's Dig Parent's Guide for a number of examples
•  these programs often draw people from great distances
•  these programs are very interactive and are very popular as school field trips
•  these programs result in collections that must be processed, analyzed, stored and writ-ten up, which become learning experiences and research opportunities
•  earlier programs in Manitoba have often been subsidized, e.g. The Forks Public Archaeology Program in the 1990s and the recent Healing Site Public Archaeology Program north of Selkirk
•  there are successful programs that are economically self sufficient, see the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Col. programs at http://www.crowcanyon.org; they require higher tutition fees, e.g. a 1-week middle grade (6-8) program costs $925 (US) per student but they arer popular and successfull