BISMARCK – A new exhibition recently opened to the public at the North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum in Bismarck. “On the Edge of the Wind: Nati
Mary Louise Defender-Wilson, a Hidatsa/Dakotah woman who was crowned Miss Indian America 1953, is featured on the Glass City River Wall, a recently finished mural in Toledo, OH that depicts several Native American women and children. The Miss Indian America Collective is still active in the Sheridan community today, decades after the pageant was discontinued.