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North Dakota:
Long the exclusive home of the Black feet, Cheyenne, Cree, Crow, Mandan and Sioux Indians, their land would soon be lost as America expanded into the west.

In 1805, the courageous Lewis and Clark expedition wound its way up the Missouri River, and seven years later, word of their discoveries was spreading and Scottish and Irish colonists arrived in the area.

As the Indian wars were ending, the U.S. Homestead Act of 1863 was a catalyst for more settlers to make the journey west.

This onetime home to buffalo and endless fields of wheat, is famed for the Badlands, a 380 sq. mile land of deep gullies, land crests and pinnacles, all formed by centuries of river erosion.

The Red River Valley, a somewhat narrow fertile strip of land along its border with Minnesota, is home to 40% of the state's population and much of its agriculture industry.

In North Dakota the history of the development of America is easily found across its windswept plains, and along the historic path of the Missouri River.

North Dakota

The flag, adopted in 1911, was originally used by the state militia.

The dark blue field displays a bald eagle holding an olive branch and a bundle of arrows in its claws. In its beak, the eagle carries a ribbon with the words " One nation made up of many states".

The shield on its breast has thirteen stars, representing the original thirteen states. The fan shaped design above the eagle represents the birth of a new nation, the United States.

Official name: North Dakota
Capital: Bismarck
Statehood: Nov. 2, 1889 the 39th state
State nickname: The Peace Garden State
Name for residents: North Dakotans
State motto:
Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable
Abbreviation: ND

North Dakota's Historical Event's:

about 18,000 bc-13,000 bc The first humans appear in the area of present-day North Dakota.
about ad 1 Native peoples from areas of present-day Wisconsin and Minnesota migrate into North Dakota.
about 1300 Ancestors of Mandan people migrate into the area.
late 1600s The Cheyenne enter North Dakota.
1682 René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, claims land drained by the Mississippi River for France.
1738 Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, visits Mandan villages, becoming the first European in North Dakota.
1803 The United States negotiates the Louisiana Purchase, acquiring western North Dakota.
1804 The Lewis and Clark expedition reaches North Dakota and the following year takes Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau as guides.
1812 The first permanent European settlement in North Dakota is established at Pembina.
1837 A smallpox epidemic decimates the Native American population.
1861 The Dakota Territory is created.
1868 The Treaty of Fort Laramie is signed; the Sioux are given land west of the Missouri River.
1873 The Northern Pacific Railroad reaches Bismarck.
1875 The first of the huge bonanza farms is created.
1883 Bismarck replaces Yankton as the territorial capital.
1883 Theodore Roosevelt becomes a rancher in North Dakota.
1885 The Dakota Farmers' Alliance is founded.
1889 North Dakota is admitted to the Union as the 39th state (November 2).
1890 Sitting Bull is killed on the Standing Rock Reservation.
1915 Arthur Townley forms the Nonpartisan League (NPL).
1916 NPL member Lynn Frazier is elected governor.
1919 The state-owned Bank of North Dakota is founded.
1932 William Langer is elected governor.
1990 The rural population of North Dakota drops below 50 percent of the state's total population.

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