This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
History of Dakota Land and Its Early Inhabitants
A reconstructed lecture outlines Dakota’s first peoples and explorers, from ancient Indian myths to Norse and French traders, Lewis and Clark’s 1804 05 itinerary, Sakakawea’s guiding role, and the subsequent push of white settlement, treaties, and territorial organization through 1865.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Dakota
The
Civic League
Edele Mounger
Red Pipe Stone
Sioux Falls
S. C
China
Tartary
Behring Strait
North al
Rocky Mountains
Plains
Dakota
East West
France
United States
Mississippi
Red River Valley
Pembina
Jefferson
Congress
North River
Lewis
Lewis and Clark
Plains of
Ft. Mandan
Bismarck
Sakakawea
Chabaneau
Northwest
Little Company
Lewis’ and Clark
Missouri
Canada
England
New Orleans
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Nebraska
Montana
Idaho
Europe
Yankton
Dakota Territory