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Yesterday I stopped by the Thompson Hill Travel Information Center/rest stop that overlooks Duluth and noticed this ‘Welcome to Minnesota’ marker erected by the Minnesota Historical Society in 1987. (This sign is replicated at state borders in several places around the state.) It reads: Known to her citizens as the North Star State or the [...] While doing a little research about Biauswah, the Ojibewe chief who had the Hwy 23 bridge named after him last week, I notice that the Wikipedia entry said he was "… the principal Chief of the Sandy Lake Ojibwa, whose village was located at either terminous of the Savanna Portage (Sandy Lake & opposite the [...] Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave a speech to Parliament earlier this week in which he formally apologized for the Canadian government’s native residential school program (see excerpts and videos on the Open Anthropology blog; and see the blogosphere reaction to the speech summarized here by the CBC news). The apology begins a 5-year process led [...] A couple of weeks ago, my sister and I visited the MN150 exhibit at the Minnesota Historical Society. The exhibit and book, Minnesota 150: The People, Places, and Things that Shape Our State by Kate Roberts, displays and documents "… responses to the following question: What person, place, thing, or event originating in Minnesota [...] On my way down to Winona last week for the Sesqui Capitol for a Day, I stopped by a roadside rest on Hwy 61 between Lake City and Wabasha to read the Minnesota Historical Society marker, erected in 1985, about Lake Pepin. Nothing struck me at the time about the wording of the marker. But on [...] At the Sesqui celebration at the Capitol last weekend, there were several tents for a variety of exhibitor displays. Among them was the Archives and Special Collections department of the University of Minnesota Libraries, displaying their Becoming Minnesota: A Sequicentennial Sampler exhibit. One of table [...] The more I learn about the history of Minnesota’s indigenous people, the more I start to see examples of things that still exist today that, deliberately or not, misrepresent that history. And among Native Americans, these things can easily be seen as a continuation of the denial or lack of truth-telling about their painful history [...] 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 [...] Over the past couple of months, I’ve been reading books about Minnesota’s history with its Indian population around the time of statehood. I first read a historical novel set during the 1862 U.S.-Dakota War, titled Uprising, by MN State Representative Dean Urdahl. Strib editorial writer Lori Sturdivant had mentioned it [...] |
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