
Contact
Northern Plains Heritage Foundation
1700 River Road North
Bismarck, ND 58503
PH: 701-663-4758
The Northern Plains National Heritage Area emerged from the last ice age as the ancestral lands of the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, expert traders, and pioneering farmers. It became the battleground of the Dakota Indian Wars of the mid-19th century and the railroad ushered in a new era of European-American immigration in the 1870s.
Today, the Northern Plains embodies both a 21st-century plains agricultural society steeped in tradition and a vital Native American heritage and culture.