Day to Day Life In the Village

Today at the On-A-Slant Village I started working at 9:00 AM. As I was arriving another guide was taking out the first tour of the day into the village. So as I was the only other guide working at this time, it was my job to greet the tourist and let them know that my tour would be leaving at 9:30, and that if they would like to look around the museum in the meantime I would come in and announce when my tour was about to begin. At 9:30 I took out my first tour of the day. After the tour I took over the desk inside the museum where I answer any questions people may have about items in the museum or about the Mandan people, while answering the phone, and selling passes to the Custer House and the On-A-Slant Village. After doing that for about an hour I was relieved from that post and I went into the village and started weeding earthlodges, a task that would not have been done by the Mandan but is necessary for us to do in order to maintain the clean appearance on top of the earthlodges that would have been provided with the river clay on the roof of the earthlodges. After weeding lodges for a while, I took my second tour out into On-A-Slant. After this tour I helped sweep the museum and then took another turn sitting behind the museum desk. After greeting and giving my last tour I went home for the day.