In the summer of 1834, the First Regiment of Dragoons were billeted at Fort Gibson. This new cavalry unit had been expressly ...

A column by Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe writer and economist on Minnesota’s White Earth Reservation. She also is co-curator of ...

Circled wagons at a camp in the Dakota Territory. Wm. H. Illingworth & George Bill photos of the Fisk Expedition of 1866 courtesy of Michael McEachern.

Visitors are told to report signs that are "negative about either past or living Americans or that fail to emphasize the beauty, grandeur, and abundance of landscapes." ...

People unfamiliar with the occasion may be asking themselves, is there a "right" way to celebrate Juneteenth? For beginners ...

In the summer of 1888, four companies with the U.S. Army left their post in the Dakota Territory and headed west to Missoula. The arrival of the 25th Infantry at Fort Missoula – itself ...

YANKTON, S.D. (KELO) — From being a hub for riverboat travel to its time as the first capital of the Dakota Territory, Yankton, South Dakota has an intriguing story to tell. When you think of… ...

North Dakota and South Dakota are two different states, but they share the same name. The reason why is quite strange - with both states having belonged to the common Dakota Territory and with the ...

After North Dakota became a state on November 2, 1889, the port of Pembina was made a separate district in North Dakota by an act of Congress on October 1, 1890.

General Alfred Howe Terry was an experienced army officer, with extensive service during the Civil War. He was the military commander of Dakota Territory from 1866 to 1869 and again from 1872 to 1886.

Yesterday was the anniversary of a day when North Dakota closed one of the more scandalous chapters in its history. It started in 1866, when Dakota Territory legislators allowed people to start ...