The North Dakota Heritage Center
“Smithsonian on the Prairie”
I slipped away from my busywork this weekend to do something with real value — visit the North Dakota Heritage Center.
My visits to the Heritage Center are bittersweet. I got to work there for eight years, with the opportunity to explore the exhibits daily — there was always more to see — and I regret not spending more of my time there wandering, instead of working when I should have been taking a lunch break.
This was a quiet weekend — people were out enjoying the unusually warm weather — so it was a perfect day for me to wander through the newest exhibit, On the Edge of the Wind: Native Storytellers and the Land, in a quiet, almost reverent, atmosphere.
The exhibit features the oral narratives of Native American storytellers from around the Dakotas, accompanied…
