Immediately after leaving Fort Meade, I went to Bear Butte State Park that was something like a eleven miles further down the road from the town of Sturgis, SD. The park mainly is just a mountain that is out in the middle of nowhere. You can see it in the distance from miles away.
To the local indians, this place holds special meaning and is concidered very sacred. This is the reason for my coming here. I was told by Memory, the woman whom I was staying with at the time and who knows the area very very well, that there was a sacred medicine wheel at this location. Having never seen a medicine wheel before, I figure it would be worth the visit here.
When I got to the Visitor Center and inquired of the whereabouts of the medicine wheel, I was told by the park rangers that there wasn't one at Bear Butte State Park. They told me I had been misinformed. They did, however, tell me of a well preserved medicine wheel just outside of Sheridan, Wyoming.
That night when I told Memory of my experience at Bear Butte, and that I was somewhat disappointed that I didn't get to see the medicine wheel. She's told me that there is a medicine wheel at the park. She went on to say that the reason the park rangers told that was that area is not admissible to non-native americans.
Still, I don't know about her explain. Why didn't they just say that there is one there but that it's off limits?
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