Native People: The North Dakota Frontier Experience (The Way It Was Series)

Here are the stories of the descendants of the earliest residents of what became North Dakota, the Native People, told by those who remember the 1820s to the 1920s. Recorded in the middle 1930s by interviewers working in a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project, those who were here tell 'the way it was' for them as white Americans and European immigrants moved into their homeland. Gleaned from over 5,000 interviews of pioneers which are stored at the State Historical Society of North Dakota, this volume collects nineteen of the personal histories of those whose people had hunted and farmed in North Dakota for hundreds of years.