Letter from John Hart to Senator Langer Regarding Fort Berthold Health Program, April 23, 1951

This letter dated April 23, 1951 from John B. Hart, Executive Director of the North Dakota Indian Affairs Commission, to United States (US) Senator William Langer encloses a news clipping regarding the health program for the tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation. Hart says that he thinks the program will result in better health care for the tribes in part because it will allow tribal members to choose their own doctors. The news clipping is enclosed with this document and does not contain a date or an indication of what paper it came from. There are some shorthand notes on the back of Hart\u27s letter. See also: Letter from John Hart to Senator Enclosing an April 7 News Bulletin Regarding the Fort Berthold Health Program, April 23, 1951https://commons.und.edu/langer-papers/1708/thumbnail.jp

Letter from John Hart to Orme Lewis Regarding Trusteeship, January 11, 1954

This letter, dated January 11, 1954, from John B. Hart to Orme Lewis concerns the issue of native emancipation from the reservation and trusteeship system. Hart writes that, while he agrees that abolishing the reservation system is desirable and that natives should ultimately be served by the same health, welfare, education, and law enforcement agencies as the ones that serve non-Indians, state and local agencies must be compensated for the additional expense that will result from these changes in policy.https://commons.und.edu/burdick-papers/1021/thumbnail.jp

Letter from John B. Hart to Senator Langer Regarding Editorial in Devil\u27s Lake Journal, August 13, 1956

This letter, dated August 13, 1956, from John B. Hart, Executive Director of the North Dakota Indian Affairs Commission, to United States (US) Senator William Langer references an enclosed ditto copy of an editorial appearing in the August 8 issue of the Devils Lake Journal. Hart writes that Langer might want to file the article for future reference. The editorial, titled It\u27s Time for Clarification, argues that, since the Supreme Court affirmed the position of the State of North Dakota that it could not legally accept jurisdiction over Indian reservations within its borders, the time has come for the US Bureau of Indian Affairs and state agencies to clarify areas of confusion, particularly in areas of law enforcement and welfare, and start to co-operate rather than working at cross purposes, and that inconsistent treatment has caused tribal members to lose respect for the government.https://commons.und.edu/langer-papers/2054/thumbnail.jp

Letter from John Hart to Senator Langer Regarding a Speech Regarding the Rehabilitation of Indians, May 11, 1950

This letter dated May 11, 1950, from John Hart to United States Senator William Langer, requests Langer\u27s thoughts on a speech that Hart gave in Rapid City, South Dakota at the Mountain States Regional Meeting on May 5, 1950. A copy of the speech is also included with the letter. The speech addresses a number of things including prejudice against the Indians, use of tax revenue, relocation of tribal members, and welfare. See Also: Letter from Senator Langer to John Hart Regarding a Speech Regarding the Rehabilitation of Indians, May 18, 1950https://commons.und.edu/langer-papers/1487/thumbnail.jp

Letter from John B. Hart to Senator Langer Regarding Illegitimacy Cases on the Fort Berthold Reservation, December 17,1954

This letter, dated December 17, 1954, from John B. Hart, executive director of the North Dakota Indian Affairs Commission to United States (US) Senator William Langer, makes reference to a letter Langer has forwarded him from Fort Berthold Social Worker Pansy Pawson regarding illegitimacy cases on the Fort Berthold Reservation. In her letter to Langer, Pawson had referred to a request she received to make a report on illegitimacy cases on the reservation, and explained why she was unable to make such a report, due to a lack of necessary information. She wrote that she had repeatedly and unsuccessfully requested a list of the illegitimacy cases on the Fort Berthold Reservation from Hart. In this reply to Langer, Hart says that his initial information about the level of illegitimate births on the reservation came from Dr. Herbert J. Wilson, Medical Officer for the Fort Berthold Agency. Hart adds that according to Wilson, the identity of the father is known in six of the cases but these fathers have not been willing to take responsibility, and that there are also several cases of child neglect on the reservation. Hart writes that he has constantly asked the agency superintendent for information on what was being done to establish parentage in cases of illegitimate births, and in every case was told the superintendent had not had time to compile the information. Hart writes also that, if Pawson was interested in knowing about the cases of illegitimate births on the reservation, she could get the information from Dr. Wilson. Hart writes that he has not requested the names of the mothers himself, and doesn\u27t intend to so because, he says, If I am going to do the Social Worker\u27s work at the Fort Berthold Reservation, I intend to be paid for it. I\u27m not paid for that and consequently I\u27m not going to do it. Hart continues that he wishes to agree with Pawson\u27s statement that no mass effort is made to prove paternity in each and every case. What he would like to know, he writes is whether any effort is being made at all. He adds that, while it\u27s true that a married man can not be forced to marry the mother of his illegitimate child, that is no reason to deprive that child of a father\u27s responsibility or the right of the child to inherit from his father. See also: Letter from Pansy Pawson to Senator Langer Regarding Illegitimacy Cases on the Fort Berthold Reservation, November 17, 1954 Letter from Senator Langer to John B. Hart Regarding Illegitimacy Cases on the Fort Berthold Reservation, November 19, 1954https://commons.und.edu/langer-papers/2070/thumbnail.jp

Conference Manuscript

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Sequence-Specific Recognition and Cooperative Dimerization of N-Terminal Aromatic Peptides in Aqueous Solution by a Synthetic Host

This article describes the selective recognition and noncovalent dimerization of N-terminal aromatic peptides in aqueous solution by the synthetic host compound, cucurbit[8]uril (Q8). Q8 is known to bind two aromatic guests simultaneously and, in the presence of methyl viologen, to recognize N-terminal tryptophan over internal and C-terminal sequence isomers. Here, the binding of Q8 to aromatic peptides in the absence of methyl viologen was studied by isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), 1H NMR spectroscopy, and X-ray crystallography. The peptides studied were of sequence X-Gly-Gly, Gly-X-Gly, and Gly-Gly-X (X = Trp, Phe, Tyr, and His). Q8 selectively binds and dimerizes Trp-Gly-Gly (1) and Phe-Gly-Gly (4) with high affinity (ternary K = 109−1011 M-2); binding constants for the other 10 peptides were too small to be measured by ITC. Both peptides bound in a stepwise manner, and peptide 4 bound with positive cooperativity. Crystal structures of Q8·1 and Q8·42 reveal the basis for selective recognition as simultaneous inclusion of the hydrophobic aromatic side chain into the cavity of Q8 and chelation of the proximal N-terminal ammonium group by carbonyl groups of Q8. The peptide sequence selectivity and positively cooperative dimerization reported here are, to the best of our knowledge, unprecedented for synthetic hosts in aqueous solution. Specific peptide recognition and dimerization by synthetic hosts such as Q8 should be important in the study of dimer-mediated biochemical processes and for the separation of peptides and proteins

Crystallization and preliminary X-ray crystallographic analysis of yeast NAD+-specific isocitrate dehydrogenase. Corrigendum

A corrigendum to the article by Hu et al. (2005), Acta Cryst. F61, 486–488