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The year 1919 saw a lot of turbulence, in many ongoing matters, and especially politically in North Dakota. The North Dakota governor was Lynn Frazier, the Nonpartisan League was a major player in politics, and World War I had recently ended.

Friday, September 23, 2022 - Our summer intern, Nick Rommel is back at the University of Chicago, but he has a final piece we're sure you'll enjoy. Nick is a musician in his own right, and when he heard about a Metis fiddler on the Turtle Mountain reservation, he had to check it out. ~~~ Dave Thompson is here for our weekly news chat. ~~~ Matt Olien reviews Hockeyland, a documentary set in northern Minnesota.

Monday, September 26, 2022 - Prairie Public’s Emmy-nominated documentary “The Women of Alba Bales House” will be screened at the NDSU student union theater next Wednesday. It’s also available to view online. We play an excerpt of the story and visit with producer Matt Olien. ~~~ Tom Isern has this week’s Plains Folk essay, “Fox and Geese.” ~~~ Speaking of award-winning films, Cinema 100 October film series kicks off with the Academy Award nominated film "Flee" on Thursday. Here to discuss the new series of films are Brian Palecek and Anita Casey-Reed.

Tuesday, September 27, 2022 - Prairie Public will be experiencing an outage in the Bismarck area. Here to explain is Bill Thomas, our director of radio. ~~~ UND researcher Ursula Running Bear has explored the health problems experienced by Native Americans who were sent away to boarding schools as children. She found that the attendees were much more likely to develop cancers, anemia, arthritis and gallbladder disease. ~~~ Friday is Orange Shirt Day, which began in Canada, but is becoming more recognized in the US. It was created to honor the legacy of the Indigenous children who were forcefully taken from their parents and sent off to residential schools between the 1830s and the 1980s. The day is an acknowledgement of the healing that is still taking place in the lives of those affected. Alicia Hegland-Thorpe visits with two Orange Shirt Day event organizers from the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation, one who is running over 100 miles to bring awareness to Orange Shirt Day.

It is official! The autumnal equinox occurred last Thursday at 8:03 PM Central Daylight Time. That was when the sun was directly over the equator. So fall is here. And of course, the days will shorten until the winter solstice in December. Then the days will begin to lengthen through the spring equinox and on to the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in June.

Dakota Territory was very much the wild West in the days of U.S. Marshal Laban H. Litchfield. He was born in 1839 in Pennsylvania. At age 20, he settled in Bon Homme County in what would become South Dakota. He was involved in Republican politics, and rose from appointed county offices to a seat in the Territorial House of Representatives and then to deputy US marshal. He was also a volunteer courier between Yankton and Fort Randall during the Dakota Conflict of 1862.

Collecting seeds, digging up this year's plants, and preventing the spread of disease are all important steps as the garden season winds down for the year.

The Orionid Meteor Shower is putting on its annual show now. It started on October 2 and will go to November 7. The shower will peak on the evening of October 21 and early morning hours of the 22 with perhaps twenty or so meteors per hour. We are fortunate to have a crescent moon during the peak viewing period, so if the sky is clear, we could be in for a good show.

When you think about clothes and fabrics, you might think about natural materials, like cotton, wool, or silk. But if you really think about it, your clothes closet also has synthetic fabrics: polyester shirts; Spandex biking shorts, nylon stockings and more.

U.S. Highway 85 crosses the rugged Badlands south of Watford City in one of the most dramatic drives in North Dakota. The roadway runs for a few miles through the Little Missouri Valley in the area of Theodore Roosevelt National Park before climbing out of the Badlands.