Usher Burdick

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Date of Work

January 22

Description

This draft of a press release dated January 22 (year unknown), by United States (US) Representative Usher Burdick, announces the distribution of potatoes and other food commodities to indigenous peoples in North Dakota. Burdick notes the various places that surplus food has been delivered in North Dakota and the reluctance that the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington D.C. has had about the release of these commodities. Burdick questions the logic being employed by others that it is better to use the potatoes to feed cattle. Burdick closes the statement by pointing out the dramatic cuts to welfare payments on reservations, which he notes will increase the need for more food commodities to be disbursed. There are several handwritten emendations on this draft.

Keywords

potatoes, food, food commodities, welfare, payments

Organizations Referenced

Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota: Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of North Dakota, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, Mikinaakwajiw-ininiwag, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota: Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North and South Dakota, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Íŋyaŋ Woslál Háŋ, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation, South Dakota: Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation (South Dakota), Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, Sisíthuŋwaŋ Waȟpéthuŋwaŋ oyáte, Unites States Bureau of Indian Affairs, Radio Gallery, Wahpeton School, Fort Totten-Turtle Mountain Agency, Standing Rock Agency, Turtle Mountain-Fort Totten Reservation, North Dakota Indian Affairs Commission,

People Referenced

Rex Chaney, C. H. Beitzel, John B. Hart, Warren Spaulding, Usher Burdick

Draft of Statement by Representative Burdick on Distribution of Potatoes to North Dakota Indians, January 22

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