The former North Dakota Commissioner of Agriculturehas still not received the Red River Trust documentation she requested in late June. Sarah Vogelsaid she can’t determine if Gates’purchase of North ...

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STANDING ROCK – Long ago, Native American women would stuff dirt up their dresses to keep from getting raped by the wasi’chu, meaning eat the fat, a term which has evolved to denote the collective ...

Just down a dusty old road trailing west in North Dakota, on County Road 9, you’ll come upon the Tetrault Woods which you’ll have to travel through. It’s said that the road eventually becomes so ...

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Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is among the most famous stories of the American counterculture. Adapted for the screen by director Milos Forman in 1975, the movie version won ...

During the dark hours of a very early morning in late August of 1975, Sandra Larson found herself completely bewildered in the back seat of her own vehicle after an encounter she and her daughter, as ...

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The surface of the former city hall parking lot had been filled in, was much lower long ago. It flooded nearly every spring, was called The Hollow, and was Fargo’s red light district, full of illegal ...