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Tribal nations are an essential part of North Dakota’s history. All are welcome to explore the reservations and experience Native American culture by learning about each tribe’s history, language and traditions while visiting attractions like reconstructed earthlodge villages. Attend a powwow and celebrate the culture through song Knife River Indian Double Ditch Indian Village and dance. There are approximately 30,000 Native Americans living in North Villages National Dakota. Though the individual tribes Historic Site: have distinct and different origins, Tribes from across histories and languages, Plains Indians the Northern Plains are united by core beliefs and values journeyed to these that emanate from respect for the earth permanent villages and an understanding of humankind’s relationship with nature. to trade, socialize and make war for Chippewa Downs The tribes with the most influence on more than 11,000 today’s North Dakota are the , years. Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park and ; the Yanktonai, Sisseton, Wahpeton, Hunkpapa and other Dakota/Lakota/Nakota (commonly known as the Sioux) tribes; and the Chippewa and Metis. Visitors are welcome to explore the reservations and discover the beauty of Native American culture.

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site: This was the principal fur trading post of the American Fur Company and between 1828 and 1867, the most important fur trade post on the Upper .

Standing Rock Monument Day 1 Morning — Fort Yates The Standing Rock: Held sacred, the story tells of a woman and her child turned into stone.

Sitting Bull Burial Site: The original gravesite of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader. Sitting Bull played a prominent role in the shaping of the American West, notably defeating Custer in 1876.

Afternoon — Bismarck-Mandan Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park: Home to many historic attractions, including On-A- Slant Indian Village, a 400-year-old Mandan Day 4 Turtle Mountain Heritage Center: This new museum Village that thrived for more than 200 New Town next to Sky Dancer years. Tour fi ve reconstructed earthlodges, Four Bears Bridge: The bridge Casino showcases the the Custer House, granary, commissary is a unique structure that bares heritage and history of the storehouse, barracks and stables. aesthetic features selected by Turtle Mountain Band of and representing the Mandan, Chippewa. Day 2 Hidatsa and Arikara tribes. Bismarck-Mandan Crow Flies High Observation Chippewa Downs: Horse North Dakota Heritage Center and State Point: Take in the breathtaking track with races on four Museum: The Innovation Gallery: Early view of Lake Sakakawea, the weekends in the summer. Peoples, uses more than 1,000 artifacts to bluff s in the Badlands and the tell the story of early life on the Northern foundations of the underwater Day 6 Plains. Be sure to visit the exquisite 6-foot town of Sanish. by 20-foot hand-painted panoramic mural Fort Totten of Double Ditch Indian Village in 1550. Three Tribes Museum: Dedicated Devils Lake: This great to the history of the Mandan, fi shing destination Double Ditch Indian Village State Historic Hidatsa and Arikara through derives its name from the Site: This site contains ruins of a large artifacts. Learn about the creation Native American word Mandan Indian earthlodge village of Lake Sakakawea. Miniwaukan. Early explorers believed to have once been inhabited for incorrectly translated nearly 300 years until 1781. Old Scouts Cemetery: Pay tribute the word to mean “Bad to Native Americans who served Spirit.” Supported by the their country in times of war and many legends of drowned Day 3 peace, including the Arikara/ warriors and lake monsters, Washburn and Stanton Sanish warriors who served as the name evolved into The Lewis And Clark Interpretive Center scouts for Custer in the Battle of Devils Lake. and Fort Mandan: The world-class the Little Big Horn. interpretive center showcases the journey Fort Totten State Historical of the Corps of Discovery. Fort Mandan is Opening in 2020 – MHA Nation Site: Constructed as a a replica of the winter home used in Lewis Heritage Center military post, it became an and Clark’s famous expedition. The site Indian boarding school, was near the Mandan Villages where the Day 5 Indian health care facility expedition traded goods for survival and Belcourt/Dunseith area and a reservation school. knowledge in 1804-05. Turtle Mountain Scenic Byway: This State Historic Site Take a hike in the wooded, rolling stands much as it once did, Knife River Indian Villages National hills of the Turtle Mountains; housing an interpretive Historic Site: The ruins of this ancient play in Lake Metigoshe or take center, museum and Indian village were last occupied in a stroll through the 2,339-acre historic inn. 1845 by the Hidatsa and Mandan, and International Peace Garden. is the site where Lewis and Clark met Sakakawea in 1804. The site now has a modern museum, visitor center, Hidatsa earthlodge and the remains of three Hidatsa villages with 210 depressions.