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Lorin Bakken walks on his family homestead Oct. 21 near the site of the Henry O. Bakken well near Tioga, N.D. The well gave the Bakken oil formation its name. Lorin, who never married, still owns the homestead and has never considered selling it. He said he didn't keep in touch with relatives who moved out of the area, so he's not aware of other surviving Bakken family descendants. Forum Communications photo by Amy Dalrymple

Famous formation named for homesteaders in N.D. with ties to Granite Falls, Minn.

TIOGA, N.D. -- Lorin Bakken recalls it was 2007 when he began seeing his name in the newspaper and on TV frequently as the oil boom started to heat up...

news Sat, Nov 24, 2012 - 12:00am

Hector, Minn., dies in truck rollover near Gardner, N.D.

GARDNER, N.D. - The North Dakota Highway Patrol has identified a man who died in a trucking accident Tuesday near Gardner as 49-year-old George M.

news / region Wed, Oct 17, 2012 - 1:09pm

Carolyn Schommer, left, makes a point as Harry Running Walker listens during a discussion held as part of the traveling exhibit "Why Treaties Matter'' at Prairie's Edge Casino Resort. Schommer and Running Walker grew up speaking Dakota as their first language. Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny

For the Dakota, now is a time for revitalization

UPPER SIOUX COMMUNITY -- Harry Running Walker's great-grandfather was among the chiefs who signed the 1851 treaty that ceded most of the Dakota land in Minnesota to the U.S. government...

news / region Mon, Oct 08, 2012 - 12:00am

Reggie LaBatte, left, and Patrick Moore lead approximately 60 people walking Sunday from the Chippewa County Historical Society in Montevideo to the Camp Release Monument as part of a commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the freeing of hostages at Camp Release. Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny

Camp Release remembered

MONTEVIDEO -- Two groups held separate, but simultaneous events on Sunday to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the freeing of hostages at Camp Release at the end of the U.S.-Dakota...

news / region Mon, Sep 24, 2012 - 12:00am

Fern Cloud was one of six panelists who spoke Sept. 17 at Ridgewater College during a "Gathering of Descendants" event. Tribune photo by Gary Miller

Descendants of Minnesota's 1862 war say the truth needs to be taught

WILLMAR -- The stories that Fern Cloud learned from her school's history books about the war of 1862 that led to the forced exile of Dakota Indian families from Minnesota...

news / local Mon, Sep 24, 2012 - 12:00am

Descendants of U.S.-Dakota War survivors to tell their families' stories

WILLMAR -- As Cora Jones tells the story of her two sets of great-grandparents who survived the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, she pauses to acknowledge just how lucky she is...

news / local Sat, Sep 15, 2012 - 11:19am

In this 2009 photo, Boomer, a 180-pound Landseer Newfoundland dog, drinks water from the kitchen sink at Caryn Weber's home near Casselton. Forum file photo

7-foot-long dog dies from cancer

DURBIN, N.D. - Nearly three years after his bid for the record of world's tallest dog gained him international fame, Boomer has bowed out for good. The 6-year-old Landseer Newfoundland...

news / nation Fri, Sep 14, 2012 - 6:49am

Leah and Reid Lebeau of Andover along with their children Rhett, from left, Owen and Luke read one of the interpretive history panels Saturday on the Birch Coulee Battlefield historic site near Morton. A Birch Coulee Unity Day event Saturday at the Morton City Park included tours of the U.S.-Dakota War historic site. Lebeau's ancestors were Sisseton Sioux, and the family has been visiting historic sites around the state. Unity Day also featured a cultural expo highlighting the Dakota, the Irish, Filipino...

A visit to Birch Coulee

news / region Tue, Sep 04, 2012 - 12:00am

A permanent historic site marker is dedicated Wednesday on the location of the Acton Battlefield near Litchfield where a battle between U.S. soldiers and the Dakota Indians took place in 1862 during the U.S. - Dakota Conflict.

Video: Acton Battlefield Marker Dedication

A permanent historic site marker is dedicated Wednesday on the location of the Acton Battlefield near Litchfield where a battle between U.S. soldiers and the Dakota Indians took place in...

news Thu, Aug 30, 2012 - 5:44pm

Stefan Oster, center, his son Jacob, left, and Stefan's sister Christina Oster, of Gottenburg, Sweden, are shown Sunday at the Old Log Church where they attended a service as part of the 150th anniversary of the U.S.-Dakota War. Their family members were involved in the conflict in what is now Monson Lake State Park. (Tribune photo by Carolyn Lange)

Remembering the victims of the U.S.-Dakota War but forgetting the conflict

NEW LONDON -- It was 150 years ago today that 13 early settlers in the Norway Lake and Monson Lake areas were killed in the prairie farmland in what is...

news / local Mon, Aug 20, 2012 - 12:00am

Dakota sun dancers from the Santee Sioux Tribe, from left, Lydia Conito, Gail Watterson, Terry Remick and Cecelia Kitto, perform Sunday during an outdoor prayer service at the historic Ness Church near Litchfield. Part of the observance of the 150th anniversary of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, the event was organized as a day of hope and healing. (Tribune photo by Ron Adams)

Hope for an era of healing: Organizers hope Ness Church ceremony will wipe away tears

LITCHFIELD -- The smoke from burning sage hung in the air as Dakota drummers and singers faced to the west to sing the Four Direction Song. The Rev. Alan Kitto...

news / local / region Mon, Aug 20, 2012 - 12:00am

Prayer service slated Sunday at rural Litchfield, Minn., church to honor all U.S.-Dakota War dead

LITCHFIELD -- Ness Church in rural Litchfield will conduct an outdoor prayer service at 1:30 p.m. Sunday as part of the observance of the 150th anniversary of the U.S.-Dakota War...

news / region Sat, Aug 18, 2012 - 12:00am

Editorial: Pain of Dakota-U.S. War continues: The time is here to work for healing

Today is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the U.S.-Dakota War, a conflict between the Dakota Nation and the nation of the United States, including the young state of...

opinion / editorials Fri, Aug 17, 2012 - 9:28am

This is a front view of the Subaru driven by Aaron Deutscher after the crash. North Dakota Highway Patrol photo.

After wrong-way driver's 10 drinks at two bars in N.D., a last-second swerve in I-94 quadruple fatal

JAMESTOWN, N.D.

news / nation Fri, Jul 27, 2012 - 8:47am

North Dakota tops Alaska in oil production, trailing only Texas

news / nation Tue, May 15, 2012 - 8:57am

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