North Dakota Posters, Prints, Photographs, Maps, & Calendars
for educators, classrooms and themed decor in studio or office.

• more flag posters

The Western Meadowlark is a medium sized songbird that ‘sports a yellow breast with a black bib over its mottled brown body’, has a permanent habitat in the grasslands and prairies, and forages on the ground and low vegetation for insects, seeds and berries. The Western Meadowlark is also the state bird of Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Oregon, and Wyoming.

The Red River is usually slow and small, meandering northward toward Canada across the ancient lakebed. However, in the case of heavy snows or rains high water has to spread across the old lakebed in “overland flooding”. There have been a number of catastophic floods, recently 1950, 1997, 2009, and 2011, that are made worse by the snowmelt starting in the warmer south and the northward flowing waters are dammed by ice. • list of notable rivers

Garrison Dam, the fifth largest earth-fill embankment dam in the world, created lake Sakakawea on the Missouri River in central North Dakota. In 2011 record snowfall (212% of normal) and spring rains (month of May 2011 = nearly 1 year precipitation) caused release of waters from six Missouri River dams and resulting in a 3 month + flood of the lower Missouri River (South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri).

• Lewis & Clark posters

On-A-Slant Mandan Village (Mandan: Miti-ba-wa-esh) was established in the late 16th century and was inhabited until 1781 when a small pox epidemic killed most of the villagers.

The original village had a high population of 1000-1500 people who hunted and farmed. The shelters were earthlodges which were held up by a frame of cottonwood logs and covered with layers of willow branches, grass, and earth. The thick walls insulated the lodge effectively in both summer and winter.

The village was located near the confluence of the Missouri & Heart Rivers; the name describes the ground that slants toward the river valley. The reconstruction is next to Fort Abraham Lincoln, that was once under the command of George Armstrong Custer.

• more Native American Cultures posters

Some 2000 people flap their arms and legs, making angels in the snow at the Capitol in Bismarck, ND, on Saturday, March 23, 2002.

North Dakota had many pioneer settlers from Scandanavia and Germany. Among the favorite dishes in North Dakota is Krumkake, a Norwegian waffle cookie that are a traditional Christmas treat.

• food poster