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From 1932 until 1940, the milk wars stretched across the Great Plains and beyond, claiming lives and leaving a path of destruction as dairy workers and farmers struggled to survive.
Usher L. Burdick was born in Owatonna, Minnesota in 1879. His family moved to Dakota Territory in 1882. He graduated from the North Dakota State Normal School in Mayville, then worked as deputy superintendent of schools for Benson County before entering the University of Minnesota Law School. He graduated in 1904 and was admitted to the North Dakota state bar. He opened a practice in Munich, North Dakota.
The grant, which comes from the National Endowment for the Humanities, will provide funding to bolster and expand the Three Affiliated Tribes’ digital collection of critically endangered language resources, and other at-risk traditional knowledge. NHSC students and faculty will conduct interviews with tribal elders for the language component of the project, as well as build a traditional foodways skills lab that will feature a kitchen where faculty, students and community members can practice traditional preservation techniques.