Katharine Hyslop ’17 takes part in the Whitestone Hill Ride, a weeklong 200-mile ceremonial Dakota horse ride from Fort Thompson, S.D., to the Whitestone Hill historic site in North Dakota. Image credit: Elena Creef
November 2nd marks the 134th anniversary of North and South Dakota’s statehood. Back in 1889, U.S. President Benjamin Harrison approved the admittance of both North and South Dakota to the Union, distinguishing what was formerly referred to as the Dakota Territory into two different states.
MHA Tourism, the North Dakota Native Tourism Alliance and the State Historical Society of North Dakota will celebrate Native American Heritage Month on Nov. 21 at the Heritage Center and State Museum in Bismarck.
Gathering for a photograph were, from left, Al Larsien, Gov. Doug Burgum, Virgil Hill Jr. and Virgil Hill with the portrait that will hang in the Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Hall in the North Dakota State Capitol. Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune
North Dakota Community Foundation Board members Ken Hall and Dean Anagnost delivered a grant check to SHSNDF Executive Director Dale Lennon.
BNSF earlier this year provided $500,000 for a grant program to help document the history and legacy of the rail bridge.
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At 11:15 a.m. on October 18, 1934, “a lone bandit” robbed the Merchants Bank in Rugby.
The year of 1864 was an unsettled time in Dakota Territory and the rest of the nation. The American Civil War, in its fourth year, was still raging in the East. Homesteaders were slowly and reluctantly returning to the state of Minnesota and the territory of Dakota after the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862.
The generous contribution from Jim and Gerd Tuchscherer will establish an endowment dedicated to providing travel stipends for State Level National History Day winners. In the photo, Jim and Gerd Tuchscherer can be seen alongside Dale Lennon, the Executive Director of the Foundation.