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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] I’ve added a photo gallery for this blog site… a place to put albums that contain six or more photos. A replica of an original copy of the Declaration of Independence is on display at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul for the next two weeks. MPR’s Midmorning show today featured two experts talking about "… how understanding of the document evolved over time." I didn’t catch the first 30 minutes but submitted this question to [...] In yesterday’s Strib travel section, Wacipis (pow-wows) and other Native events of remembrance and celebration were featured in an article titled Land of 10,000 memories. Among the events mentioned: the Dakota Traditional Wacipi at Upper Sioux Agency State Park Front page of yesterday’s StarTribune: Reclaiming a lost legacy – The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community is purchasing land in Scott County at a pace that’s worrying Shakopee city leaders. … the tribe’s land purchases, which are surging as the price of land sags, are turning up a different sort of heat in Scott County. Civic leaders [...] The University of Minnesota’s Council of American Indian Elders held a sunrise ceremony yesterday morning to begin American Indian Month in Minnesota. See the U of M press release. The MN150 website recently launched a new page titled, May is American Indian Month in Minnesota. (I’ve used some of the text from that page to create [...] The StarTribune’s Nick Coleman has a column in today’s paper titled, First Americans should finally get apology long owed to them. The late Gov. Rudy Perpich proclaimed a Year of Reconciliation in 1987 in the hope that the 125th anniversary of the 1862 Dakota War would be a fitting time to talk honestly about the [...] |
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