Native American Minnesota

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)
• Final Ethnographic Resource Rpt 06_06_06 (228 pages)
• BOM_Archeological Research_2001_final (108 pages)
• Historical Study_Hennings (68 pages)
• Wetland Delineation Report August 2005_final (74 pages)

Final BOM DEIS July 2006 Separated document files

• 1_BOM DEIS July 2006  Cover_Summary_TOC.pdf
• 2_BOM DEIS July 2006 Chapter 1.pdf
• 3_BOM DEIS July 2006 Chapter 2.pdf
• 4_BOM DEIS July 2006 Chapter 3.pdf
• 5_BOM DEIS July 2006 Chapter 4.pdf
• 6_BOM DEIS July 2006 Chapter 5.pdf
• 7_BOM DEIS July 2006 References.pdf
• 8_BOM DEIS July 2006 Schedule of Appendixes & Appendix A.pdf
• 9_BOM DEIS July 2006 Appendix B.pdf
• 10_BOM DEIS July 2006 Appendix C.pdf
• 11_BOM DEIS July 2006 Appendix D.pdf
• 12_BOM DEIS July 2006 Appendix E.pdf
• 13_BOM DEIS July 2006 Appendix F.pdf
• 14_BOM DEIS July 2006 Appendix G.pdf
• 15_BOM DEIS July 2006 back cover.pdf

Earlier this evening, I attended the Coldwater Spring open house at the VA Hospital hosted by National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service staff. (See my January blog post for details.)

The Mississippi National River and Recreation Area web site has a set of web pages titled the Bureau of Mines (Coldwater) Current Status that contains some of the information and images/PDFs that were on display at tonight’s open house.

See the album of two dozen photos from the Coldwater Spring open house, or this slideshow: