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 [...]
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As I blogged in mid-July, the City of Minneapolis is celebrating its sesquicentennial with a Celebrating our Minneapolis History program series at the Minneapolis Central Library featuring local historians, authors and educators.
The first in the series was last Wednesday evening, and it had a Native American focus. Librarian JoEllen Haugo (center photo, click [...] I attended an event at Ft. Snelling State Park on Saturday titled, Bdote – Rivers and People Coming Together. The event calendar said: The area now known as Fort Snelling State Park has worn many titles in Minnesota history, from Dakota homeland to concentration camp, military post to recreation area. Explore the history of this site [...] The City of Minneapolis is celebrating its sesquicentennial with a Celebrating our Minneapolis History program series at the Minneapolis Central Library featuring local historians, authors and educators. Next Wed, July 22, the series has a Native American focus (see the PDF flyer): Before Minneapolis: the land, native people Learn about the pre-Minneapolis landscape and lives [...] 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 [...] |
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