NORTH DAKOTA, ND (KXNET) — For the first time in almost three decades, North Dakota has updated its Native American history textbooks. The revised six-part series includes contributions from the ...

A citizen of the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians, Lajimodiere has written several award-winning books of poetry and is an expert on the history of Native American boarding schools.

Revised textbooks on the five Native American tribes that share geography with North Dakota will be ready in time for next school year. For about three decades, the books went without updates due ...

New Cankdeska Cikana Community College book tells history of Spirit Lake Tribe with Dakota place names The Tribal College will celebrate the book release and give away signed copies during the ...

Book Review: 'Our History Our Future' Puts Standing Rock In Broader Native American Story In his new book, Nick Estes points a way forward, with solidarity and without sentimentality, to an idea ...

Families were separated, and for generations, native children were forcibly taken from their homes and sent to boarding schools, and Dakota language and spirituality were outlawed. 150 years of trauma ...

North Dakota lawmakers have named Denise Lajimodiere as the state’s poet laureate, making her the first Native American to hold the position.

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One of the nation’s foremost authorities on American Indian history will speak at the 46th annual Northern Great Plains History Conference in Mankato Wednesday through Saturday, Sept. 21-24.

Long ago, according to Dakota tradition, there was a village at a big bend in the river they called Wasi Oju, or River with Pines. That river, now called the Zumbro, is 65 miles long and it's hard ...

December 26, 1862: thirty-eight Dakota Indians were hanged in Mankato, Minnesota, in the largest mass execution in US history–on orders of President Abraham Lincoln.