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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Alissa Thiele
- Apr 7
- 4 min
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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Alissa Thiele
- Mar 25
- 4 min
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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Alissa Thiele
- Feb 25
- 2 min
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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Alissa Thiele
- Jan 31
- 2 min
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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Alissa Thiele
- Jan 11
- 2 min
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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Alissa Thiele
- Dec 20, 2021
- 2 min
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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Alissa Thiele
- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
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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Alissa Thiele
- Dec 1, 2021
- 1 min
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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