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Wishek Sauerkraut Day
Wishek, ND · Food & Drink
- When
- October 14, 2026
- Where
- Downtown Wishek · Wishek · ND
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A German-Russian heritage town celebrates its signature crop each second Wednesday of October, with bingo, a vendor show at the National Guard armory, and a pie social at the Baptist church.
The history within reach
- Wishek Sauerkraut Daysame spot
A German-Russian heritage town celebrates its signature crop each second Wednesday of October, with bingo, a vendor show at the National Guard armory, and a pie social at the Baptist church..
Born in a sod house to Germans from Russia and speaking no English until he was in his twenties, Welk talked his father into a mail-order accordion by promising four more years of farm labour and every dollar he earned playing.
Opposition to a pipeline crossing under the Missouri just above the reservation's water intake drew thousands to camps on the riverbank, joined by members of some three hundred tribes, the largest such gathering in over a century.
Agency police sent to arrest him during the Ghost Dance alarm shot him outside his cabin on the Grand River, forty miles south of here, along with his son and six of his supporters.
A contest powwow held the weekend after Labor Day, drawing dancers, drum groups, and singers from tribal nations across the northern Great Plains.