Surrounded by God’s Shouts of Deliverance

My children and I recently visited the On-A-Slant Mandan Village at Fort Abraham Lincoln in Mandan, ND. 

We had fun exploring the round houses and marveling at their construction.

In the models of the village as it was in the early 1700’s, there is a long palisade along one side.

As I looked at the area where the fence had been, I imagined enemy tribes pouring over the hilly prairie and storming the village. Did the fence keep the enemy out while the Mandan warriors assembled? 

I th...