NATIONAL PARK SERVICE • U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NORTHERN PLAINS NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA MANAGEMENT PLAN | DRAFT JANUARY 2018 Management Plan Northern Plains National Heritage Area 3 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS Chapter 1. Executive Summary ....................................................................................................................... 9 Summary of the Management Plan ................................................................................................................... 11 Chapter 2. Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 16 An Introduction to the Heritage of the Northern Plains ............................................................................... 17 Culture History ................................................................................................................................................ 18 Heritage Area Designation ............................................................................................................................. 20 Local Coordinating Entity .............................................................................................................................. 20 Management Planning Process & Categorical Exclusion .............................................................................. 21 Statement of National Importance of the Northern Plains NHA ................................................................. 22 Purpose of the Northern Plains National Heritage Area ............................................................................... 22 Management Plan Goals and Policies ............................................................................................................... 22 Chapter 3. Interpretive Plan .......................................................................................................................... 27 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 27 Interpretation Requirements ............................................................................................................................. 28 Nationally Important Story ................................................................................................................................ 28 The Upper Missouri – A Sense of Place ........................................................................................................ 29 Interpretive Themes ............................................................................................................................................ 30 Theme 1: The Mandan and Hidatsa of the Northern Plains created an unprecedented agrarian civilization that continued for centuries along the Upper Missouri River, and whose lifeways can be traced in the landscape and its people today. .............................................................................................. 30 Theme 2: The Missouri River and Northern Plains drew explorers, traders, and artists from across North America and Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, opening the way for the settlers who would follow and signaling the end of the Heart River phase on the Upper Missouri. ......................... 33 Theme 3: The arrival of the horse, the steamboat, and the railroad to the Upper Missouri changed the social, political, and economic dynamics on the Northern Plains for both the people who were there and those who would come later. .................................................................................................................. 36 Theme 4: The U.S. Dakota Wars shattered the commerce and relations of the Northern Plains by exacerbating intertribal conflict, by the U.S. government’s use of military force, and by the establishment of military forts expressly to punish and subdue the native population in the region. 39 Theme 5: Residents of the Northern Plains today enjoy many of the economic benefits and community traditions taken from the region’s native people and inherited from their European and American forebears. ........................................................................................................................................ 42 Theme 6: The NPNHA is home to several city, county, state, federal, and nonprofit naturalist sites that reflect the abundance of natural game and wildlife still enjoyed throughout and beyond the entire NPNHA by naturalists, hunters and fishers. .................................................................................... 44 Key Resources of the NPNHA .......................................................................................................................... 46 Chapter 4. Business Plan ............................................................................................................................... 53 5 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 55 Role of the Northern Plains Heritage Foundation.......................................................................................... 55 Structure and Description of the Northern Plains Heritage Foundation .................................................... 55 Key Functions of the Foundation ...................................................................................................................... 56 Subcommittees, Partners, Contractors, and Staff ........................................................................................... 57 Partners and Consultants.................................................................................................................................... 58 Staff ........................................................................................................................................................................ 59 Products and Services ......................................................................................................................................... 59 Financial Analysis ................................................................................................................................................ 60 Budget Background and Assumptions .......................................................................................................... 60 Income Sources ................................................................................................................................................ 61 Expenditures .................................................................................................................................................... 64 Strategies ............................................................................................................................................................... 65 Chapter 5. Implementation Plan ................................................................................................................... 66 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 69 Completed Projects and Previous Accomplishments ..................................................................................... 69 Performance Goals, Evaluation, and Ongoing Engagement .......................................................................... 71 Selection Criteria ............................................................................................................................................. 71 Best Practices .................................................................................................................................................... 71 Performance Measures ................................................................................................................................... 72 Evaluation ............................................................................................................................................................. 73 Ongoing Engagement .......................................................................................................................................... 74 Implementation Strategies/Actions and Phasing ............................................................................................. 74 Partnerships and Funding Sources .................................................................................................................... 85 Partnerships ...................................................................................................................................................... 85 Potential Funding Sources (not exhaustive) ................................................................................................ 87 Conclusions .......................................................................................................................................................... 88 Bibliography ................................................................................................................................................. 90 Appendix A. Sec. 8004 of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. –The Establishment of the Northern Plains National Heritage Area. .......................................................................................................