Wahpeton

Born with a learning disability similar to dyslexia, he overcame it to earn his GED and become an engineer for Red River Valley and Western Railroad in Wahpeton, N.D. He was riding home from a New Year's party in Fargo in 2000 when he hit a parking lot abutment hidden in snow.

Double transplant for type 1 diabetes brings troubles, gifts 2010

She grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota, near the Bureau of Indian Affairs school where both her mother, of French-Ojibwe descent, and her father, of German descent, taught.

An Emissary of the Between-World 2001

Ellie is grateful to the VFW post in Wahpeton, which is named for Woody, and especially to Gordon and Irene Thiel of that post, for getting the Medal of Honor awarded to her uncle, even if it was posthumously.

| INFORUM | Fargo, ND 2009

Ellie is grateful to the VFW post in Wahpeton, which is named for Woody, and especially to Gordon and Irene Thiel of that post, for getting the Medal of Honor awarded to her uncle, even if it was posthumously.

| INFORUM | Fargo, ND 2009

Jeremy Bauer, president of the United Steel Workers local in Bismarck, called the Wahpeton plant a "major undertaking" for the company while it was shutting down an existing plant here.

unknown title 2009

"I'll never forget my sister's screams as the nuns beat her with a shovel after a pair of scissors went missing," said Mary Jane Wanna Drum, 64, who attended a Catholic institution in Sisseton, South Dakota, for the children of her tribe, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate.

Stephanie Woodard: South Dakota Sex Abuse Scandal: A Peek Inside The Church's Drawers Stephanie Woodard 2011

"I'll never forget my sister's screams as the nuns beat her with a shovel after a pair of scissors went missing," said Mary Jane Wanna Drum, 64, who attended a Catholic institution in Sisseton, South Dakota, for the children of her tribe, Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate.

Stephanie Woodard: South Dakota Sex Abuse Scandal: A Peek Inside The Church's Drawers Stephanie Woodard 2011

A 64-year-old member of the Dakota tribe Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, she was taken from her family as an infant and placed in Tekakwitha Orphanage, a Catholic-run institution established in Sisseton, South Dakota, for the children of her people.

Stephanie Woodard: South Dakota Church-Abuse Chronicles, Part 1: 'I Want Everyone To Know What Happened To Us' Stephanie Woodard 2011

A 64-year-old member of the Dakota tribe Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, she was taken from her family as an infant and placed in Tekakwitha Orphanage, a Catholic-run institution established in Sisseton, South Dakota, for the children of her people.

Stephanie Woodard: South Dakota Church-Abuse Chronicles, Part 1: 'I Want Everyone To Know What Happened To Us' Stephanie Woodard 2011

Born in 1954 in Little Falls, Minnesota, she grew up mostly in Wahpeton, North Dakota, where her parents taught at Bureau of Indian Affairs schools.

Louise Erdrich biography 2008