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The 330th anniversary of French people going into a river in Minnesota that the Dakota knew already

Posted on June 29, 2013 by Bruce White
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Three hundred and thirty years ago, give or take a year, on June 29, French visitors to the homelands of the Dakota people, traveled for the first time into the Minnesota River or Wakpa Mni Sota, as it was known … Continue reading →

Posted in Bdote: A Public EIS, Minnesota history, Reclaiming Mini Sota Makoce | Leave a reply

Where’s the Working Class at the Mill City Museum?

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Bruce White
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By William Milliken It’s easy to find the Mill City Museum. Just look beneath the Gold Medal Flour sign on the west side of the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis. As I approached, in 2005, the old limestone walls of … Continue reading →

Posted in Minnesota Historical Society, Minnesota history | 5 Replies

Pioneer of a different way of working—Janet D. Spector, 1944-2011

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Bruce White
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Janet D. Spector, who died on September 13, 2011, worked in the 1980s with Dakota people to study the history of Little Rapids, a 19th-century Dakota village site on the Minnesota River. This work led to her pioneering book What … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical Projects, Minnesota culture, Minnesota history | 5 Replies

Who will tell the story of the white people in 1862?

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Bruce White
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There are people who are concerned that nothing will be done to tell the story of the white people in 1862. They seem to believe that what happened to white people that year has yet to be told and that … Continue reading →

Posted in 1862, Minnesota history | 15 Replies

Mary Black Rogers, Anthropologist and Ethnohistorian, 1922-2011

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Bruce White
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Mary Black Rogers, an anthropologist and ethnohistorian from Minnesota who studied the culture and history of Ojibwe and Métis communities in Canada and the United States, died in Vancouver, British Columbia, on January 27, 2011. The daughter of Fred R. … Continue reading →

Posted in Bdote: A Public EIS, Historical Projects, Minnesota history | 13 Replies

Blizzard tales from Minnesota

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Bruce White
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In honor of the recent snowstorm of December 11, 2010, the 12-11-10 Blizzard, which hit a good part of southern Minnesota, here’s an article I wrote in 1986, on the history of Minnesota’s blizzards and how they were viewed by … Continue reading →

Posted in Minnesota culture, Minnesota history | 1 Reply

Wanted: Historian to study development of Twin Cities suburbia

Posted on July 18, 2010 by
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Todd Mahon, Executive director of the Anoka County  Historical Society, writes that he is looking for a historian to do a study of suburbanization in Anoka and Hennepin Counties in Minnesota. The work is to be funded by a a … Continue reading →

Posted in Historical Projects, Minnesota culture, Minnesota historical organizations, Minnesota Historical Society, Minnesota history | Leave a reply

Russell Fridley, Historian

Posted on June 26, 2010 by Bruce White
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Former director of the Minnesota Historical Society Russell W. Fridley died on June 17, 2010. He was director of the Historical Society for thirty years, during a dynamic and formative period of the institution’s history. He had a true commitment … Continue reading →

Posted in Minnesota Historical Society, Minnesota history | 5 Replies

The Fort Snelling debate, Part 2

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Bruce White
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Robin Johnson of Alexandria, Minnesota, says in a recent letter to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, “until Minnesota adults stop thinking of their state’s history and culture as being the almost sole province of children, the complex arguments [about the history … Continue reading →

Posted in Bdote: A Public EIS, Minnesota Historical Society, Minnesota history, Reclaiming Mini Sota Makoce | 2 Replies

Racist comments at KQRS

Posted on June 4, 2010 by
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Here’s an email from Martha Fast Horse who has a Sunday morning radio show on KQRS radio in the Twin Cities, concerning continuing problems with the famous Shock Jock Tom Barnard who calls KQRS his home. KQRS  apologized and said … Continue reading →

Posted in Minnesota history, Other stuff, Treaty rights | 10 Replies

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