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Last Friday night, Waziyatawin Angela Wilson was a guest on Almanac, Twin Cities Public Television’s weekly public affairs program, with co-hosts Eric Eskola and Cathy Wurzer. The segment was the third in their series of Sesquicentennial Month discussions with Minnesota historians. The video can be viewed from the Almanac home [...] 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 [...] George Goggleye Jr., Tribal Chair of the Leech Lake Band Of Ojibwe, spoke briefly Sunday night on the steps of the State Capitol. He then introduced Leech Lake Nation, a drumming and singing group who performed ‘Honor Song.’ Click play to listen. 5 minutes. The music begins at the one-minute [...] Here’s the audio of Kevin Leecy’s Sesquicentennial speech Sunday night on the steps of the State Capitol. Kevin is Tribal Chair of the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa and Chair of the Board of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council (MIAC). Click play to listen. 4 minutes, [...] The group of Dakota people who marched and protested last weekend (see my blog post/photos) also staged a protest on Sunday evening during the Sesqui ceremonies. Media coverage: Pioneer Press: Protest briefly disrupts sesquicentennial event; 3 Indian activists taken into custody I got this email today [...] I hope to have some helpful and interesting online discussions here via the comment feature that’s enabled on most blog posts. So I’ve added a page of Discussion Guidelines that I’ve developed over the years so that visitors here know what’s expected. I’ve been moderating online forums/web message boards since 1986 and created several successful online communities. [...] Here’s the audio of Governor Tim Pawlenty‘s Sesquicentennial speech last night on the steps of the State Capitol. Click play to listen. 7 minutes. Or alternately, download the MP3. I took photos of some of yesterday’s Sesqui activities at the State Capitol. I’ll blog those soon. I also recorded the audio of portions of the speeches that were given from the platform. Here’s an excerpt of Sesqui Executive Director Jane Leonard‘s speech, where she addresses the dark side of Minnesota’s Statehood: the sad and [...] 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 [...] A ‘truth and reconciliation talk circle’ was held at the Jaycees Pavilion in Lake Park in Winona yesterday, part of the Sesqui Capitol for a Day activities. It was organized by the Winona-Dakota Unity Alliance, the City of Winona, and the Diversity Foundation, the same partnership that puts on the Great Dakota Gathering and Homecoming [...]
After the sunrise ceremony, I went to Winona City Hall for the Sesqui Capital for a Day ceremonies, including a speech by Governor Tim Pawlenty. In his remarks, Pawlenty acknowledged that Native Americans paid a steep and painful price for Minnesota’s statehood. (I didn’t record his speech and I don’t remember the [...] A group of about 50 local citizens and Sesqui visitors gathered at the Jaycees Pavilion in Lake Park in Winona early this morning for a Native American sunrise ceremony. As we gathered in a large circle, one elder sang a song and then another, holding a plate of burning tobacco called a smudge pot, went from [...]
I drove down to Winona this afternoon. Tomorrow, the city is the 5th and final Capitol for a Day city and there’s a Native American sunrise ceremony at Lake Park that I want to attend, followed by a Truth and Reconciliation Circle. I was forwarded an email to the Sesquicentennial people by book author Marybeth Lorbiecki about the Dakota communities who were exiled from the state after the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. She wrote: I would like to suggest that it would be an important part of the history, healing, and celebration of the state to invite the [...] |
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