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What is North Dakota's heritage?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

The first settlers of North Dakota were Native American groups that, by the 18th century, already called the northern great plains home. These included the Dakota, Assiniboine, Cheyenne, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara. Groups of Chippewa moved into the northern Red River valley around 1800, and Cree, Blackfoot, and Crow frequented the western buffalo ranges.

The late 1700's and early 1800's found French, Spanish, Canadian, and English explorers and traders establishing trading posts in and traveling through North Dakota. Later came Scottish and Irish settlements.

When the Dakota Territory was opened for homesteading, settlers came to North Dakota from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany (also Germans from Russia) and Czechoslovakia.

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