Native American Minnesota

Front page of yesterday’s StarTribune: Reclaiming a lost legacy – The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community is purchasing land in Scott County at a pace that’s worrying Shakopee city leaders.

… the tribe’s land purchases, which are surging as the price of land sags, are turning up a different sort of heat in Scott County. Civic leaders [...]

The StarTribune’s Nick Coleman has a column in today’s paper titled, First Americans should finally get apology long owed to them.

The late Gov. Rudy Perpich proclaimed a Year of Reconciliation in 1987 in the hope that the 125th anniversary of the 1862 Dakota War would be a fitting time to talk honestly about the [...]