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Earlier this evening, I attended the Coldwater Spring open house at the VA Hospital hosted by National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff. (See my January blog post for details.) The Mississippi National River and Recreation Area web site has a set of web pages titled the Bureau of Mines (Coldwater) Current Status [...] Three youth from the Boys and Girls Club of the Leech Lake Area (Deer River, Cass Lake, Walker) unveiled a large Native American-themed mural at today’s Sesquicentennial closing ceremony in the Rotunda of the State Capitol. A reception was held at the State Capitol this afternoon to close out the Sesquicentennial and thank everyone involved. See the album of 15 photos or this slideshow: 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 [...] 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 [...] It was at our initial committee meeting that first I heard about the spiritual significance of Coldwater Spring/Camp Coldwater (adjacent to Ft. Snelling) to native Minnesotans. I read about the area on the Friends of Coldwater web site and on historian Bruce White’s web page on Camp Coldwater: The Birthplace of Minnesota and then in [...] Back in February, my wife Robbie and I did the candlelight walk at Fort Snelling State Park under a bright moon. I was thrilled to see that park’s visitor center, AKA the Thomas C. Savage Interpretive Center, has a fabulous display on the Dakota Conflict Concentration Camp, the prison camp where [...] In the Feb. 1 StarTribune: Land purchase saves a slice of state’s past: Pilot Knob now has 25 acres of land preserved as a permanent natural resource. Eighteen acres of Pilot Knob, a cherished tract of Minnesota history that was under threat of townhouse development just a few years ago, will be preserved as open space [...] |
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