Editing North Dakota (section)

===Indian tribes and reservations===
[[File:Standing Rock Administrative Service (14235787848).jpg|thumb|right|Administrative building for the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation]]

Historically, North Dakota was populated by the [[Mandan]], [[Hidatsa people|Hidatsa]], [[Lakota people|Lakota]], and [[Ojibwe]], and later by the [[Arikara people|Sanish]] and [[Métis people (United States)|Métis]]. Today, five federally recognized tribes within the boundaries of North Dakota have independent, sovereign relationships with the federal government and territorial reservations:

*[[Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation]], [[Fort Berthold Reservation]];
*[[Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate]], [[Lake Traverse Indian Reservation]];
*[[Standing Rock Sioux]], [[Standing Rock Sioux Reservation]];
*[[Spirit Lake Tribe]], [[Spirit Lake Tribe|Spirit Lake Reservation]]; and
*[[Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians]], [[Turtle Mountain Reservation]].