October 13, 1975 - MPR’s Steve Monroe interviews Jerry Perkins, a farmer near Worthington about the corn yield this year. Perkins discusses various harvesting challenges, including weather and where do you cut down on the use of fuel at the expense of crop loss in the field?
October 15, 1975 - MPR’s Dick Daly interviews U.S. Representative Jim Oberstar about his proposed idea to expand the Boundary Waters Canoe Area that would comprise both a wilderness and a national recreation area by act of Congress.
October 16, 1975 - MPR’s Tom Steward reports on Minnesota Congressman Jim Oberstar's proposed bill prohibiting the removal of natural resources in BWCA, including logging. It also states no snowmobiling except in designated areas. A similar bill was submitted by Representative Doug Johnson.
October 17, 1975 - Cases of nine people convicted for roles they played in Wounded Knee occupation come before appeals court. The appeal is a consolidated one, with two lines of attack: one on US jurisdiction (the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty guarantees sovereign rights of Lakota people), the other, government misconduct (the FBI paid informant Doug Durham to infiltrate AIM). The appeals court many not act on treaty issues, so the case may be sent to the Supreme Court. Lawyer Vine DeLoria says for too many years the government has treated Indian tribes as sovereign some of the time and wards of the state at other times. She wants an unambigious ruling on what the relationship is, which has implications for Pine Ridge Reservation. A ruling expected in two and a half months. Martin Bunzl and Bob Potter report.
October 18, 1975 - Columnist Marianne Means speech on women in public life, at Worthington Community College. Means critiques how public perceptions impact the treatment of women, and the changes in women's rights created by ERA and women's movement.
October 18, 1975 - An interview with June Sochen, feminist historian of Illinois State University, who talks about the life and challenges of women in the frontier and on the prairies.
October 18, 1975 - Mary Lynn Myers, director of the South Dakota Human Rights Commission, speaks about the National Organization of Women, and her candidacy for president of organization.
October 18, 1975 - Leona Hansberger, a life-long resident of Worthington, shares her remembrances on the passage of the Women’s Suffrage Amendment (19th Amendment of the United States Constitution).
October 21, 1975 - Vine Deloria, an expert in Indian treaties and author of "Custer Died For Your Sins" and "God is Red,” speaking at the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth on Indian rights and public policy.
October 30, 1975 - Randall Tigue, of the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, discusses unconstitutional nature of devising a scholarship, similar to the Williams Scholarship, at the University of Minnesota that would only be awarded to female student athletes.