Hagen Village: Montana’s First Farming Community
Dec 11th, 2025
At 6 p.m.
Where:
The Headwaters Foundation
119 West Main Street Missoula, Montana
Description:
Join us for the next Heritage and History Public Lecture with Archaeologist Carl Davis. For thousands of years Indigenous peoples depended on game and wild plants for their survival on Montana’s harsh Northern Plains. Then, during the mid-15th Century AD, ancestral Hidatsa-Crow farmers living in agricultural villages along the Missouri River in North Dakota migrated into the lower Yellowstone River Valley near Glendive where they established a small bison hunting-agricultural community archaeologists call the Hagen Site. The busy village above the Yellowstone River was eventually abandoned due to drought or the cold of the Little Ice Age. This odyssey of Middle Missouri village farmers turned Mountain Crow hunter-gatherers is a fascinating but largely unknown chapter in Montana’s long human history.
