Signature orange school buses brought approximately 250 eighth graders from throughout this part of North Dakota to Ft. Totten State Historic Site for Living History Day 2025 last month.
The event is sponsored by the North Dakota State Historical Society under Lisa Rainbow’s direction at Fort Totten. Rainbow coordinated this day-long event with numerous volunteers from the communities of the Spirit Lake Nation and Devils Lake.
In groups according to their schools, the students visited ten different “stations” each depicting a different element of life in the frontier military fort from the 1800’s – nursing and medical treatment, butter making and cooking, quilting and sewing, setting up tee pees, games played for recreation hours, military drills in the square, blacksmithing, fur trading, schooling and much more.
To see more scenes from Living History Day 2025, go to the back page: B4 in today’s Devils Lake Journal.
