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Understanding Indigenous Culture in ND Series: Spirit Lake Nation
(Word pronunciations are available when the text is the color purple.) The Spirit Lake tribe, also pronounced as Mni (water) Wakan ("pure...
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May 2, 20223 min read


Understanding Indigenous Culture in ND Series: Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
North Dakota Ojibwe call themselves “Anishinaabe” which means “original people”. Other indigenous persons and Europeans mispronounced...
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Apr 7, 20224 min read


Understanding Indigenous Culture in ND Series - MHA Nation
The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation (Three Affiliated Tribes) is located on the Fort Berthold Reservation in central North Dakota...
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Mar 25, 20224 min read


Understanding Indigenous Culture in ND Series
The people of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe are members of the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota (meaning “friends” or “allies”) nations. Just as...
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Feb 25, 20222 min read


Indigenous 101 - North Dakota Essential Understandings
“Contrary to Hollywood’s definition of beauty, the more wrinkles our elders have, the more beautiful they become to us. The lines of...
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Jan 31, 20222 min read


Indigenous 101
DID YOU KNOW? Within the boundaries of North Dakota, there are five federally-recognized tribes. In total, there are more than 31,000...
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Jan 11, 20222 min read


Understanding Indigenous Culture in North Dakota Series
Did You Know: Verbal communication is the predominant and preferred form of communication for many Native American tribes and Indigenous...
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Dec 20, 20212 min read


Understanding Indigenous Culture in ND Series
Although our state’s K-12 social studies standards and required U.S. and North Dakota history courses have long included instruction on...
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Dec 14, 20212 min read


Understanding Indigenous Culture in North Dakota
CREA’s Multi-Cultural Programs offer opportunities to help educators integrate multicultural and diversity education into their...
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Dec 1, 20211 min read
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