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Mary Lethert Wingerd, author of North Country: The Making of Minnesota, was interviewed on yesterday’s Midday program on MPR: How the land of the Dakota and Ojibwe became the State of Minnesota. …author Mary Wingerd describes the relationships between indians and whites in the 200 years before statehood and the early years of statehood. [...] This blog has been dormant for over a year, as funding for the project ended when the MN Sesquicentennial (blog) ended. But with the Sesquicentennial of the U.S. – Dakota War of 1862 less than two years away, I’ll post occasional items as they seem warranted. To really keep up-to-date, however, historian Bruce White’s Minnesota History [...] Historian Bruce White has added a blog to the home page of his MinnesotaHistory.net site, and he’s begun blogging. Bruce is one of the state’s most respected historians and has written extensively about Native Americans. I’ve added the RSS feed of his blog to the lower right sidebar here. Welcome to the blogosphere, Bruce! The current issue (winter 2008-09) of Minnesota History, the quarterly of the Minnesota Historical Society, arrived in the mail today. It contains a 14-page article titled Survival at Crow Creek, 1863—1866 by Colette A. Hyman, a professor of history at Winona State University. (The quarterly apparently doesn’t make PDFs of its articles available on its web [...] Today’s Strib: A town square for the 21st century – A new series of blogs on our website taps into the collective wisdom of the community. They call it YourVoices and Laura Waterman Wittstock is one of the bloggers. Her first blog post was Dec. 16 and is titled Obama and the Indians. So now that [...] I took photos and captured the audio of speakers at last Friday’s press conference at Coldwater Spring. See these two articles in the Strib for more info: Strib, Sept. 5: Occupation of park site expected to end today See the album of 13 photos or this slideshow [...] In today’s Strib, Nick Coleman has a column titled: Nothingburger celebration will go down easy with State Fair spice. It’s all about Warren Nelson, artistic director of the Big Top Chautauqua, and how his musical theater production of ‘Old Minnesota: Song of the North Star’ includes our sad legacy of treatment of Native American Minnesotans. [...] Winona LaDuke appeared on The Colbert Report yesterday. The 7-minute segment is a hoot! "Stephen asks former Green Party vice presidential candidate and Native American activist Winona LaDuke what it’s like to be an oppressed elitist." MPR reporter Tom Robertson aired a piece yesterday titled: American Indians prefer to reflect on their own history. Minnesota marks 150 years of statehood this year, but not everyone is celebrating. American Indian tribes in Minnesota were here long before the state was. For many Indians, the history they remember is [...] There’s an article by Rob Capriccioso in the June 6th edition of Indian Country Today titled Minnesota genocide wounds fester: 150th birthday celebration prompts protests, education efforts. It includes quotes from Waziyatawin, Tom Dahlheimer, Leonard Wabasha, and yours truly. Griff Wigley, project leader of the commission’s Native American outreach component, said the commission has attempted ”to [...] Last Friday night, Waziyatawin Angela Wilson was a guest on Almanac, Twin Cities Public Television’s weekly public affairs program, with co-hosts Eric Eskola and Cathy Wurzer. The segment was the third in their series of Sesquicentennial Month discussions with Minnesota historians. The video can be viewed from the Almanac home [...] I saw the article in this morning’s StarTribune, Protesters decry ‘shameful history’, about how a couple dozen Dakota people halted the sesquicentennial wagon train at Fort Snelling yesterday… and the plans for a march to the State Capitol today where festivities were planned to launch Minnesota’s Sesquicentennial week. So I [...] In today’s StarTribune: Ancestral Mi-Ni-So-Ta: "Paul Durand’s life work unearthed hundreds of American Indian names for area landmarks. The work continues even after his death." Right: Paul Durand’s family has a memorial web site dedicated to him: "…. a humble historian of Native American place-names of the Upper Midwest. Paul’s lifelong research has helped to [...] A replica of an original copy of the Declaration of Independence is on display at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul for the next two weeks. MPR’s Midmorning show today featured two experts talking about "… how understanding of the document evolved over time." I didn’t catch the first 30 minutes but submitted this question to [...] In yesterday’s Strib travel section, Wacipis (pow-wows) and other Native events of remembrance and celebration were featured in an article titled Land of 10,000 memories. Among the events mentioned: the Dakota Traditional Wacipi at Upper Sioux Agency State Park |
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