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Fact 1 - North Dakota is a state of the north-central United States bordering on Canada. The indigenous people of this state included various tribes of Indians. Many inhabited lands of Woodland, lakes, rivers and streams and were hunters, fishers and farmers. Their crops included rice, squash, melons, pumpkins. Other tribes migrated to the Great Plains

Fact 2 - The Great Plains area covers parts of the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Wyoming
Fact 3 - Names of Border States: Minnesota, Montana and South Dakota
Fact 4 - Origin of the name of the state: Dakota is the Sioux Indian word for "friend". The Indians of North Dakota included the Arapaho, Arikara, Cheyenne, Chippewa, Crow, Dakota, Hidatsa and Mandan Indians tribes
Fact 5 - Features of the area: Central lowlands in the east comprises the flat Red River Valley and the rolling drift prairie; Missouri plateau of the Great Plains in the west.
Fact 6 - The Mandan were a semi-nomadic tribe who lived on the banks of the Missouri River. Their enemies were the the Assiniboin and the Sioux.
Fact 7 - Many of the Arapaho tribes of Colorado moved to the Great Plains. The Great Plains Indians lived in tepees. The name 'Arapaho' is believed to be a corruption of the Pawnee word for 'traders.' Since 1878 the Northern Arapaho Nation has lived with the Eastern Shoshone on the Wind River Reservation.
Fact 8 - The Arikara were a semi-nomadic tribe who lived on the banks of the upper Missouri River from the 14th century. Their permanent houses were Earth Lodges but they used tepees when hunting buffalo.
Fact 9 - The Cheyenne tribe are one of the famous tribes of the Great Plains. The cholera epidemic reached the Plains Indians in 1849 resulting in huge loss of life
Fact 10 - The Chippewa people were members of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior. The people's name, is given as Ojibwe in Canada but as Chippewa in the United States. The Chippewa waged extremely violent war on their enemies - they were so feared that the French considered the complete annihilation of this tribe.
Fact 11 - The Sioux were the largest Indian tribe and comprised of three major divisions based on Sioux dialect and subculture: The Santee or Eastern Dakota tribes. The western Sioux, known for their hunting and warrior culture, are often referred to as the Lakota. The middle Sioux are often referred to as the Yankton or the Western Dakota, incorrectly classified as “Nakota”
Fact 12 - The Hidatsa
Fact 13 - The Crow, aka the Absaroka or Apsaalooke, are a tribe of Indians who historically lived in the Yellowstone river valley. They split from the Hidatsa tribe in present-day North Dakota either around 1400-1500 CE Their name means means "children of the large-beaked bird" and they were semi-nomad hunters and farmers in the northeastern woodland. Tribal warfare, especially with the Sioux, forced them to move to the Great Plains where they hunted buffalo.