North Dakota State Symbols
North Dakota State Symbols, Emblems, and Mascots
North Dakota is made up of open prairies, plains, plateaus, and lakes. Hot summers and cold winters dominate the seasons, in which students can enjoy a variety of outdoor activities, including fishing, biking, hunting, and attending various festivals and events. Tourist attractions include the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Knife River Indian Villages, and Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park.
Both rural and agricultural, with grain farms and cattle ranches, North Dakota gets its name from the Dakota division of the Sioux Indians who lived on the plains before the Europeans arrived. "Dakota" means "friend." French-Canadian soldier and fur trader Pierre Gaultier de Varennes was the first known white explorer to visit the home of the Dakota in 1738. North Dakota was one of the last areas of the frontier to be settled by non-Native Americans, and even today, it's not a highly populated state. North Dakota, whose capital is Bismarck, joined the Union in 1889 as the 39th state. Appropriately, the state bird is the Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta).
North Dakota State Symbols contains descriptions and pictures of the state symbols, emblems, and mascots of the state, which can be quickly accessed. This resource guide represents many of North Dakota state facts such as North Dakota state symbols, the state flower, the state gemstone, the state insect, the state tree, the state bird, the state animal, the state flag that flies over North Dakota, and the capital, as well as many more symbols, emblems, and mascots.
North Dakota State Symbols, Emblems, & Mascots |
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Symbols |
Symbol Name - (Species) |
| American Folk Dance | Square Dance |
| Art Museum | "The North Dakota Museum of Art," Grand Forks on the North Dakota University Campus |
| Beverage | Milk |
| Bird | Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) |
| Coat of Arms | Coat of Arms |
| Fish | Northern Pike (Esox lucius) |
| Flag | State Flag |
| Flower | Wild Prairie Rose - Rosa blanda or Arkansana (Rosa setigera) |
| Fossil | Teredo Petrified Wood |
| Fruit | Chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) |
| Grass | Western Wheatgrass (Agropyron smithii) |
| Honorary Equine | The Nokota Horse (Equus caballus) |
| Insect | Convergent lady beetle {ladybug} (Hippodamia convergens) |
| Language | English |
| March | "Flickertail March" |
| Motto | Liberty and Union Now and Forever, One and Inseparable |
| Nicknames | "Peace Garden State" |
| Quarter | North Dakota State Quarter |
| Railroad Museum | Mandan Railroad Museum |
| Seal | Great Seal |
| Song | "North Dakota Hymn" |
| Tree | American Elm (Ulmus americana) |
