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Thursday, January 13, 2022 - A Heart like Water is a frontier survival story set in Dakota Territory in 1887, based on true stories. It was produced and shot in North Dakota. The film will be showing next week in Bismarck. Joining us is filmmaker Dan Bielinski. ~~~ Clyde Bellecourt is remembered in a report from Minnesota Native News. ~~~ Sue Balcom discusses food trends for 2022 in today’s Main Street Eats.

Around this time in 1925 at the University of North Dakota, the editorial staff of the 1926 Dacotah yearbook would have been hard at work. January 15 was the deadline for the mock-ups for each section. January 15 was also the deadline for student organizations to reserve space. Balloting for the Who's Who's section was set for January 19.

In 1998 the internet was still in its infancy. The World Wide Web had only been available to the public for about five years. Therefore, when Donald Hoffman of Bismarck posted his resume and a photograph on a website called Actor’s World, he didn’t think much would come of it.

On this date in 1912, Michael Jahner was acquitted of charges of assault with a dangerous weapon with attempt to kill. It was the final act in a series of events that began several months before.

Laundresses in Bismarck in December 1874 found themselves in a cost-price squeeze, as they were being charged fifty cents per barrel to have water hauled up from the Missouri River. As reported by the Tribune, "'Tempering the wind to the shorn lamb' was the way the Bismarck washerwomen put it when Missouri River water advanced to fifty cents a barrel, and the next day’s blizzard piled a big snow drift near her back door."

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Turbulent politics gripped North Dakota in the 1930s, when four men served as governor in a seven-month period. Gov. Bill Langer was removed from office by the state Supreme Court due to his federal felony conviction on corruption charges. Lt. Gov. Ole Olson succeeded him, but served only a few months and didn’t run for election.

Some of the first fundraisers to fight polio in North Dakota were birthday balls held in honor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was paralyzed from polio at age 39 and never again walked unaided. He became a leading force in the polio cause, and help found the March of Dimes.

Tuesday, January 25, 2022 - Harvard Professor of History Dr. Philip Deloria is presenting on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act tonight for Humanities ND. He talks about the three phases of the law. ~~~ A recent study by the Pew Research Center shows that 3 of 10 U.S. adults are religiously unaffiliated. Greg Smith is associate director of research at the center and he recently visited with Lori Walsh, host of In The Moment of South Dakota Public Radio.

Root Seller Sue talks about having a healthy diet.