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 [...]
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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 [...] On March 2, I attended a presentation at Fort Snelling State Park by historian Bruce White about his new book "We Are at Home: Pictures of the Ojibwe People," published by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. This is the audio of the first 11 minutes of Bruce’s presentation in which he discusses the [...] I’ve added a box (widget) to the right sidebar that allows you to subscribe to this blog either via an RSS feed or via email. Main RSS feed (blog posts) 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 [...] Back in mid-January, I met with some of the people involved with the Minnesota Sesquicentennial project at the University of Minnesota’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. We discussed what could be done during the Minnesota Sesquicentennial to address how the Native American population was treated during the years before and after statehood in [...] |
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