page_title: North Dakota
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: North Dakota / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Statue of Sacagawea — by sculptor Leonard Crunelle (1872-1944) . Located in front of the North Dakota State Capitol, in Bismarck, North Dakota.
context_page_description: North Dakota is a state in the United States. 672,591 people lived in North Dakota in the year 2010. The capital and seat of government is Bismarck.
context_section_description: Before European people came, Native American people lived in the area now called North Dakota. One important tribe was the Mandan.
  North Dakota was one of the last US states to be settled. (To have people go there to make homes and live.) On November 2, 1889, North Dakota (and South Dakota) became part of the United States.
caption: Statue of Sakakawea (Sacagawea), the Shoshone Native American woman who guided Lewis and Clark when they mapped the Missouri River
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