page_title: Pembina, North Dakota
section_title: Recent history
hierarchical_section_title: Pembina, North Dakota / History / Recent history
caption_attribution_description: Pembina, North Dakota. From everydot.com.
context_page_description: Pembina is a city in Pembina County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 592 at the 2010 census. Pembina is located 2 miles south of the Canada–US border. Interstate 29 passes on the west side of Pembina, leading north to the Canada–US border at Emerson, Manitoba and south to the cities of Grand Forks and Fargo. The Pembina-Emerson Border Crossing is the busiest between Blaine, Washington and Detroit, Michigan and the fifth busiest along the Canada-United States border. It is one of three 24-hour ports of entry in North Dakota, the others being Portal and Dunseith. The Emerson-Noyes border crossing, located 2 miles to the east on the Minnesota side of the Red River, also processed cross border traffic until its closure in 2006.
  The area of Pembina was long inhabited by various indigenous peoples. At the time of 16th century French exploration and fur trading, historical Native American tribes included the Lakota, the Chippewa, and the Assiniboine. The British/Canadian Hudson's Bay Company established a fur-trading post on the site of present-day Pembina in 1797, and it is the oldest European-American community in the Dakotas.
context_section_description: Pembina was officially designated as a city in 1967.
  The noted American author Louise Erdrich has represented the Pembina River and the Pembina Band of the Ojibwe Indians on the Turtle Mountain Reservation in numerous works of fiction. In the past several books, the Pembina have celebrated their unique heritage.
  Despite its small size, Pembina maintained a television station, KCND-TV, from 1960 to 1975. The station was a border blaster primarily targeting Winnipeg from as close to the border as possible; when simultaneous substitution rules took effect in the early 1970s, Canadian interests bought the intellectual property of the station and relocated it to Winnipeg, where it was relicensed by the Canadian government as CKND-TV and has operated there ever since. Channel 12 in Pembina was rechristened as KNRR, a satellite of KVRR.
  Its population in federal censuses has never exceeded 1,000.
caption: A hardware store in Pembina, North Dakota.
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