This was a community center of the Arikara tribe founded about 1894 in NE 1/4 Sec. 29-147-88, Nishu Twp., on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. It was named for Charles Armstrong, a will known scout, guide and Indian interpreter at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, and was located across the Missouri River from Ree, Mercer County. The principal structure here was the Armstrong School. Wilbur Wilde Howard (1905-1971), a famous concert violinist, was born here. The site was renamed Nishu in the early 1920's and is now inudated by Lake Sakakawea.

This name was adopted in the early 1920's for the Arikara Indian community in NW 1/4 Sec. 27-147-88, Nishu Twp., formerly known as Armstrong. The name was of Arikara origin, meaning arrow, and was also the name of the tribal leader known to the white man as Floyd Bear. The post office was established June 2, 1926 with Sidney M. Pearson pm, and closed June 30, 1934 with mail to Blackwater. It reopened December 11, 1935 with J.H. Bossen pm in SW 1/4 Sec. 21-147-88, about one mile WNW of ;the original location, and closed for good on April 30, 1941, with mail again going to Blackwater. The site was inundated by Lake Sakakawea in the 1950's.

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