Dakota Access Pipeline ~ Plains Folk Essay ~ Genealogy Workshop ~ Solar Energy

Wednesday, August 24 – A judge is expected to rule soon on a court hearing blocking construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline hearing. Linda Black Elk is an ethnobotanist, restoration ecologist, and instructor at Sitting Bull College in Fort Yates, North Dakota. She’s been fighting the pipeline, which protestors say threatens the water supply of the Standing Rock Reservation. ~~~ Tom Isern shares a Plains Folk Essay: Native Winnebago Drawing, about a surprise discovery in the archives of the Smithsonian.  ~~~ Harvest Public Media’s Luke Runyon reports on family farms feeling pressured to sell water. ~~~ The Heritage Education Commission annual Family History Workshop will be Saturday, September 24 at Horizon Middle School, Moorhead.  We’ll talk with D. Joshua Taylor, host of the popular PBS series Genealogy Roadshow.  Also joining us is Les Bakke of The Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County. ~~~ Inside Energy’s Dan Boyce reports on efforts to make solar energy affordable.