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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. [...] In yesterday’s StarTribune: Mendota tribe struggles to keep language, culture alive The two-story house in dot-on-the-map Mendota (population: 197) is more ragged than rustic. White paint is peeling off doors. A side porch has collapsed. On the front lawn, weeds have won the turf war against grass. But on Wednesday nights, supporters of the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota [...] 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! Here are the contents of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 2006 CD that was handed out at last night’s Coldwater Spring open house. All the documents are PDFs. Coldwater Spring/Bureau of Mines Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 2006 Final BOM DEIS July 2006 (482 pages; alternately, see separated document files below) 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 is the 146th anniversary of the start of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. In the fall of 2002, Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) (with financial support from the Blandin Foundation) did a six part series on the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862 titled, Minnesota’s Uncivil War. The content is still available, including some audio: Part 1: The remnants [...]
Minnesota-based author/historian John ‘Jack’ Koblas gave a slide presentation at the Northfield Historical Society last night on Let them Eat Grass, his three-volume history of the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. The Bush Foundation in St. Paul has announced its new strategic direction for the next decade. (See the Strib article titled, Bush Foundation changes its focus and the way it will issue grants; the Strib editorial, Bush Foundation makes a smart shift; Pioneer Press article titled, Major state funding group alters grant focus; MPR story [...] Back in April, I blogged about the terrific Dakota Concentration Camp display at Fort Snelling St. Park. (The MN Department of Natural Resources (DNR) operates all state parks. They do not operate Historic Fort Snelling, the site of the fort. It’s operated by the MN Historical Society.) This exhibit, according to one of the display [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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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