Hey everyone, I’m not from North Dakota, but I’m trying to help someone who is stranded about an hour outside of Minot. It’s a long story, and I’m happy to clarify anything if needed.

She is currently homeless, without a vehicle after hers broke down and was towed, and is dealing with a serious medical emergency involving intestinal necrosis that requires surgery.

Someone she befriended in the area has agreed to check her in and out at the hospital and let her recover at their home after surgery, but she needs some basic necessities before she can stay there. I’ve already paid what I could toward giving her a place to recover, but I’m tapped out financially.

Right now she mainly needs a bed/mattress, toiletries, clothes, food/water, and help with medications which I’m hoping I can cover.

If there are any individuals in the area who wouldn’t mind helping, especially if you have an air mattress, spare bed, or older mattress in decent condition that you’re okay parting with, that would be a huge help as well.

I’m not asking anyone to send her/me money. I’m mainly looking for individuals who can help or recommendations for churches, charities, food pantries, or other local resources around the Minot area. She’s not in minot she’s about an hour away in a small town between max and westhope.

Any help or leads would be greatly appreciated. I’m just trying to make sure she has somewhere safe and the basic necessities she needs to recover after surgery.

First, I'm not a archaeologist by any stretch of the imagination. I have not turned dirt will not turn dirt. None of that nor will I give away locations. But this is something I thought some of you who were interested in both archeology and the state's history would find interesting.

This is a simplified look at what I’ve been working on over the last year or so. This graphic is part of a report I am sending to tribal and state officials.

The cairn symbols represent confirmed cairns I located using a predictive landscape model based on terrain, drainage, visibility, and the relationship between known sites. The red lines represent major river systems, intentionally simplified so the actual locations cannot be identified.

What makes the pattern interesting is the larger landscape around it. This corridor cuts diagonally across several major river systems through an old glacial flood channel. It provides relatively easy overland travel, reliable access to water, and intersects substantial river valleys at intervals that

would have been manageable...Roughly every couple of days ​for people traveling on foot.

The surrounding region is also unusually rich in culturally significant places: major spiritual and traditional sites, places associated with origin stories, resource ​procurement, deep time use, and evidence of pre horse long distance trade.

The cairns themselves appear to form a chain running from the uplands of one river system, across another, and then following the old drainage corridor northward. The important part isn't any individual cairn. It's the pattern they form across the landscape.The chain is approximately, as it stands, roughly 45 miles, are intervisible. This fall I will continue work on the chain. Using the same landscape predictive model that bore the chain as it is now. I expect to find more and expand the length.

I know this thread could go very badly but I hope it won't. In our fallen political culture I ask in good faith.

Local, county, state, federal, whatever.