Construction on a traditional earth lodge will tentatively begin Monday on a site near the Great Platte River Road Archway. The 60-foot diameter lodge will be built using the methods Plains ...

A broken beam caused a portion of an earth lodge near the Kearney Archway to collapse. The lodge was built in 2010 for educational programs and activities. It took 13 days to construct. This is ...

It was the first step in building a traditional earth lodge near the Great Platte River Road Archway and the first time in several generations that Pawnee helped to raise a lodge.

After taking scores of schoolchildren on field trips into Nebraska’s prehistoric past with the Dancing Leaf Earth Lodge and Cultural Learning Center, Les and Jan Hosick are hanging it up.