Urge North Dakota legislators to support Bison World project

Because the vice chairman of the North Dakota Native Tourism Alliance (NDNTA) and because the tourism guide for the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, I need to categorical my robust assist for the Bison World vacation spot attraction close to Jamestown.

Bison World, with its distinctive location simply blocks off Interstate 94 on vacant state land, will function North Dakota’s “Tourism Gateway.” It’s going to present all our tribal points of interest and different locations similar to Medora and the brand new Theodore Roosevelet Presidential Library the flexibility to seize the eye of vacationers early of their journey throughout the state.

Market research present that almost all vacationers to North Dakota come from states east of us. As our State Tourism Director Sara Otte Coleman has mentioned, “If we are able to get them off the interstate and into a significant attraction, we are able to cross-promote with different locations throughout North Dakota. Bison World accomplishes that objective.”

Bison World additionally suits completely with the Native Tourism Alliance mission to “promote, defend, protect and educate the world in regards to the tradition, historical past and setting of our sovereign nations.”

And it develops new financial and workforce alternatives for all our tribes and for all North Dakotans.

We should seize this chance to develop and diversify our financial system and carry our tourism trade to an entire new degree. Please urge your state legislators to assist this financial transformational challenge throughout this session of the Legislature.