MPR News Features are news segments created for various long-form programming, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, amongst others. Features run the gambit of interviews, reports, profiles, and coverage.
June 23, 1973 - The two sides at odds in the Leech Lake area over fishing rights discuss their motivations and philosophies regarding the introduction of a one dollar tax stamp for fishing permits for non-Chippewa Indian Reservation citizens.
August 6, 1973 - MPR’s Connie Goldman reports on steel drum concert of pop music as part of a summer enrichment program. It allows junior high students to play the drum without much music training; they play on parts of the drum marked by numbers.
August 8, 1973 - MPR’s Connie Goldman interviews Eric Stokes, Minnesota composer and assistant music professor at University of Minnesota, as he prepares the performance of his composition "Fireflies."
August 8, 1973 - MPR’s Bill Siemering interviews Midwestern poet Mark Vinz about regional poetry. Vinz reads his poems Heartland, Line Storm, and First Summer: A Reckoning.
August 8, 1973 - Poet Jim Moore provides commentary on why poets like Thomas McGrath and Robert Bly stay in this area, in part due to the connection between poetry and politics.
August 17, 1973 - Third week of testimony in Reserve Mining trial. Judge Miles Lord presiding. Testifying for the state, Dr. Robert Dill says that taconite dumping in Lake Superior is affecting area drinking water. Expert witness Dr. Gary Glass concurs.
August 27, 1973 - Unidentified interviewee with Bob Potter verifying reports of Clyde Bellecourt allegedly being shot by AIM leader Carter Camp.
August 30, 1973 - MPR’s Kevin McKiernan reports that the Custer, South Dakota grand jury returned indictments against Russell Means, Vernon Bellecourt, Dennis Banks and several others. Some 20 policemen came to hospital in Winter, SD and make arrests. Report details information on charges and bail.
August 30, 1973 - MPR’s Kevin McKiernan reports of harassment by the FBI and federal marshals coming out from Wounded Knee. Occupiers talk of rapes, shootings, and beatings. There are several harassment suits that have been opened against some FBI officers in Rapid City, South Dakota, including an incident of a man getting kicked down the stairs and that of a little girl getting shot in the eye. Thus far, no arrests have been made.
August 31, 1973 - MPR’s Kevin McKiernan reports on American Indian Movement co-founder Clyde Bellecourt’s hospitalization and a discussion to move him over security risk concerns.