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Devils Tower is a sacred place to the indigenous people. there are many prayer cloths and bundles around the Tower right now. They are physical representations of prayers and can have different, personal significance for each person or tribe. Since there are 26 tribes associated with the tower, the meanings can vary greatly. Some people will come from even farther away to pray here.
June. 2, 2005.
Devils Tower (Lakota: Mato Tipila, which means “Bear Lodge”) is a monolithic igneous intrusion or volcanic neck located in the Black Hills near Sundance Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet above the surrounding terrain and the summit is 5,112 feet above sea level. Devils Tower was the first declared United States National Monument, established on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The Monument's boundary encloses an area of 1,347 acres.