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Teaching has never been an easy profession. Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, school boards imposed severe rules on women who chose teaching as a profession. While it varied from school to school, many of the rules were common, including daily tasks like making sure the classroom had a bucket of water and a full scuttle of coal. They had to fill the lamps and clean the chimneys. Modern teachers can be glad they don’t have to clean the outhouses!

North Dakota Native American Essential Understanding Number Five is about tribal policies, treaties, and sovereignty. In this episode of Dakota Datebook, we'll hear Demus McDonald, elder and enrolled member of the Spirit Lake Dakota nation, tell the traumatic story of his own experience with assimilation policies practiced by America's Indian boarding school system.

Merry Christmas! Here is a sampling of how North Dakotans of yore celebrated Christmas.

If you are of a certain age, you may remember the value of a silver dollar, and you might recall its size and its heft – almost a full ounce of real silver. Most people today most likely remember non-silver Eisenhower dollars or the Susan B. Anthony or Sacagawea dollars from recent years, but old, real-silver dollars evoke special memories for some.

North Dakota Native American Essential Understanding Number Four is about sense of humor. In this episode of Dakota Datebook, we'll hear Jesse Taken Alive, elder educator, and enrolled member of the Standing Rock Nation discuss the important role that humor plays among the Lakota people.

Monday, December 26, 2022 - After a weekend of eating too much, it’s time to take better care of our digestive systems. We reair a conversation from October on the power of poop. From fecal transplants to renewable energy, the new book Flush: The Remarkable Science of an Unlikely Treasure explores why we might want to make our number two, a number one priority. We visit with science writer Dr. Bryn Nelson.

Sue Balcom joins us for Main Street Eats to talk Christmas.

In this episode of Dakota Datebook, we'll hear Eya Co Nape Tasunka Fox, an indigenous dancer, young father, and an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, share how he honors his young son's identity through immersing him in his family's generational cultural practices, while allowing his individuality to inform his ultimate course.

Dr. Scott Acton is a Wavefront scientist for Ball Aerospace, and spent decades of his life working on the James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope launched from earth Christmas Day in 2021, and has performed well beyond expectations since. Dr. Acton discusses his incredible history with the project and tells us what may be next for one of our country’s most brilliant physicists. ~~~ February is Black History Month. We hear from Dr. Larry Napoleon, an associate professor in the School of Education at NDSU about this year’s theme, “Black Resistance.” His research agenda includes the outcomes for Non-traditional / marginalized populations within education.

NDSU Athletics Director Matt Larson brings us up-to-date on all things Bison Athletics. We’ll chat with the veteran AD to learn how recent NCAA changes are affecting NDSU sports teams. ~~~ Humanities North Dakota offers several free online learning events in a program they call Public University. Today we offer a preview as we visit with Raffi Andonian about his 13 week course called Contested Histories, Conflicted Space: Understanding Historic Sites and Monuments.