ping, ouch, not cool
'In the case of Punished Woman Butte, the Dakota told French mapmaker Joseph Nicollet in the 1830s that the hill was where the Sioux had once cruelly punished an adulteress. Sundstrom notes the event is mentioned in the Yanktonai winter count for 1784, which gives the year the name of “winyan wan pabaksapi,” or “when the woman was beheaded.”'
There is more than ample evidence that European and Asian people were here long long before Christoforo or the Vikings. Here in AZ for example there is a grave of an Englishman that has been dated two hundred years earlier than the Vikings. How they got here and what they were looking for is not known. Maybe came for free medical and food stamps.