From the founding of the United States, Native communities have faced displacement, broken treaties, and the ongoing struggle to preserve their identity and sovereignty. Those tensions remain felt today.

This week on Prairie Plates, Rick Gion talks with Creative Kitchen owner Mark Sinner and long-time employee Miriam Danielson as the store celebrates its 50th anniversary.

The city of the namesake movie Fargo celebrates its 30th anniversary with a special screening event and a Q&A with one of the actors at the Fargo Theatre tonight.

Erik Deatherage chats with Prairie Public’s Director of Television, Barb Gravel, about the award-winning team behind the Prairie Musicians and the new season that continues to spotlight the incredible musical talent of North Dakota and Minnesota.

Alt-country and Americana trailblazer Joe Ely passed away on Monday of pneumonia, brought on by his struggle with Lewy Body Dementia and Parkinson's disease. He was 78.

If novelist and essayist Sam Graham-Felsen thought that following the example of Theodore Roosevelt's "strenuous life" in the North Dakota badlands would rub off on his 8-year-old son Saul, well, he was half right.

A group of Fargo-Moorhead professors and jazz musicians are preparing to recreate Duke Ellington's Grammy-winning performance that occurred in Fargo in 1940. Erik Deatherage interviews musicians Russ Peterson and Matt Patnode about the show.

Two Grammy Award-winning musicians team up for a sparse but richly rewarding listen on the new album Life and Time.Mike Reid, who once chased quarterbacks for a living and is known for writing a string of Nashville hits and Joe Henry, a gifted songwriter (he wrote Madonna's "Don't Tell Me") and producer who took home gold for helming a record by soul-blues great Solomon Burke, keep things on the downtempo.But as you'll hear in this artist spotlight, there's excitement in the little moments.

Episode 153 features neo-folk singer Denison Witmer, musician and activist Greta Gaines, country band Ramona and the Holy Smokes, and 49th Parallel from Minot, North Dakota. Plus, singer-songwriter Marshall Crenshaw talks about his new album, "From the Hellhole."

We lost a North Dakota legend this week. Marilyn Hagerty, the longtime Grand Forks Herald columnist who became a viral sensation after her sincere review of a national chain restaurant, was a treasure to her many readers who appreciated her down-to-earth takes on food.