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The group of Dakota people who marched and protested last weekend (see my blog post/photos) also staged a protest on Sunday evening during the Sesqui ceremonies. Media coverage: Pioneer Press: Protest briefly disrupts sesquicentennial event; 3 Indian activists taken into custody I got this email today [...] Here’s the audio of Governor Tim Pawlenty‘s Sesquicentennial speech last night on the steps of the State Capitol. Click play to listen. 7 minutes. Or alternately, download the MP3. I took photos of some of yesterday’s Sesqui activities at the State Capitol. I’ll blog those soon. I also recorded the audio of portions of the speeches that were given from the platform. Here’s an excerpt of Sesqui Executive Director Jane Leonard‘s speech, where she addresses the dark side of Minnesota’s Statehood: the sad and [...] A ‘truth and reconciliation talk circle’ was held at the Jaycees Pavilion in Lake Park in Winona yesterday, part of the Sesqui Capitol for a Day activities. It was organized by the Winona-Dakota Unity Alliance, the City of Winona, and the Diversity Foundation, the same partnership that puts on the Great Dakota Gathering and Homecoming [...]
After the sunrise ceremony, I went to Winona City Hall for the Sesqui Capital for a Day ceremonies, including a speech by Governor Tim Pawlenty. In his remarks, Pawlenty acknowledged that Native Americans paid a steep and painful price for Minnesota’s statehood. (I didn’t record his speech and I don’t remember the [...] A group of about 50 local citizens and Sesqui visitors gathered at the Jaycees Pavilion in Lake Park in Winona early this morning for a Native American sunrise ceremony. As we gathered in a large circle, one elder sang a song and then another, holding a plate of burning tobacco called a smudge pot, went from [...]
I drove down to Winona this afternoon. Tomorrow, the city is the 5th and final Capitol for a Day city and there’s a Native American sunrise ceremony at Lake Park that I want to attend, followed by a Truth and Reconciliation Circle. I was forwarded an email to the Sesquicentennial people by book author Marybeth Lorbiecki about the Dakota communities who were exiled from the state after the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. She wrote: I would like to suggest that it would be an important part of the history, healing, and celebration of the state to invite the [...] The traveling Sesquicentennial banner made its way my home town of Northfield yesterday, hosted by our local public libray. (I blogged the event with 18 photos on a community site. Here are 5 of them. Click to enlarge.)
The most interesting part for me was the the leather-bound journal accompanying the banner in [...] The University of Minnesota’s Council of American Indian Elders held a sunrise ceremony yesterday morning to begin American Indian Month in Minnesota. See the U of M press release. The MN150 website recently launched a new page titled, May is American Indian Month in Minnesota. (I’ve used some of the text from that page to create [...] On April 3, I attended an event hosted at the Minneapolis American Indian Center (MAIC) titled, Close the Gap: End Disparities in the American Indian Community. There were speakers, a panel discussion, and a showing of one of the segments of Close the Gap, a documentary film series by the Minnesota Channel of Twin Cities [...] On March 2, I attended a presentation at Fort Snelling State Park by historian Bruce White about his new book "We Are at Home: Pictures of the Ojibwe People," published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. This is the audio of the first 11 minutes of Bruce’s presentation in which he discusses the [...] |
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