Dedicated to the Indian People in Honor of the "Fool Soldier Band"

The young men honored here had pledged themselves to peace before November 1862. Martin Charger and his companions, Lakota of the Two Kettle band near Fort Pierre, wanted no part of the war in Minnesota, and the name Fool Soldiers was a jeer at that stand. They found White Lodge's Dakota camp, bargained under threat, and with help from White Lodge's son Black Hawk bought back two women and five children, then walked them home through the cold. The Dakota artist Oscar Howe later painted the rescue in a WPA mural in Mobridge.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sitting Bull and Sakakawea Monuments — 2.8 mi
  A granite head carved by the Crazy Horse sculptor over a grave dug up at Fort Yates by night in 1953, on a bluff above the Missouri on the Standing Rock Reservation.

More markers nearby

• Sakakawea — 3.0 mi
• The Mickelson Governors — 20 mi
• Bangor — 21 mi
• You Are Now on the 100° Meridian — 23 mi