Could also be framed as an exciting opportunity to engage.
Director of Walker Art Center, Viso, anda the artist, Durant, is praised for their response to the Scaffold sculpture controversy for listening and finding creative solutions.
Possible site to add to Native American Sankofa?
Could also be framed as an exciting opportunity to engage.
Exhibit created by the Minnesota Digital Library and the University of Minnesota based on the narrative of the survival of the Native American groups of the Midwest.
It is organized into six themes: Ancient Legacies, Colonization, Colonial Narratives, Conflict, Reservation Era, and Survivance.
Chapter 3 of this book, Little Crow's war, is about the US-Dakota War of 1862 centered on the perspective of Little Crow, the chief of the Dakotas at the time.
Well-researched, thorough account of the Dakota perspective in the conflict including the governmental structures in place for the growing United States in relation to the Native American population.
Description of how the confluence of the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers are considered the birthplace of the Mdewakanton Dakota; their "Garden of Eden". Our guide, Jim Anderson, explained this to us on the Sankofa trip at the Fort Snelling State Park site on Pike Island.
Powwow at Augsburg College that the Bethel Native American Sankofa group attended on March 31, 2012.
Good overall description of Powwows and their varieties and meaning. Helps explain the variety of dances and variations regarding dress, gender and region of the country.
Entry describes the background that we heard from Jim Anderson and Jim Bear Jacobs about the Dakota tribe. Mentions three main groups Dakota, Lakota and Nakota and the seven major divisions (Oceti Sakowin/Seven Council Fires) that were on the circular rock monuments we saw on Pilot Knob Hill.
Extensive entry on the history of the Dakota and Lakota relationship with the United States including many conflicts and development of the reservations.
Article describes what role Fort Snelling played before, during, and after the War. Mentions much of the information presented by Jim Anderson on Sankofa trip like the treaties and annuities the Dakota tribe was owed, internment/concentration camp, hangings, role of Little Crow, treatment of tribe in the camp, survival rates, trader misconduct, and displacement afterwards.
Article explains the significance of the site of Historic Fort Snelling as the location of the Creation of the Dakota people. This article calling for the removal of Fort Snelling was written on June 19, 2009 and mentions many of the Dakota perspectives on the History of Fort that were mentioned by Jim Anderson on the Native American Sankofa tour.
Gives a good explanation of the Dakota perspective on the conflict between the Dakota people and the Minnesota Historical Society.
Overview of the AIRFA Act of 1978 including its purpose, impact, and amendments. Jim Anderson mentioned this law in his talk and how his people were impacted by not having access to their sacred land on the present land of Fort Snelling State Park.
42 USC § 1996 - Protection and preservation of traditional religions of Native Americans contains the text of the law and notes, amendments, and additional legal context of this law.
Jim Anderson mentioned this in his talk how the language and religious practices of Native American tribes were considered illegal.
List of all the local issues that the Medota Dakota community are advocating/fighting for including most of the efforts that we heard from Jim Anderson and Jim Bear Jacobs.
MN "Concentration Camp" Survivors' Relatives Remember 150 Years Later
Article discussing the War and shows a ceremony on the grounds of Fort Snelling State Park where the Sankofa trip visited. Interview with Jim Anderson by Alison Herrera on February 12, 2012
Commemorative site by the Minnesota Historical Society that introduces a wide range of initiatives to encourage discussion and reflection about the war. This website shares historical background, a timeline of events, public programs, books, links to photos, documents and artifacts relating to the war, and also resources for researching family history.
Recommended by Leon Rodrigues
In 1862, Minnesota was still a young state, part of a frontier inhabited by more than one million Indians. Times were hard and Indian families hungry. When the U.S. government broke its promises, some of the Dakota Indians went to war against the white settlers. Many Dakota did not join in, choosing to aid and protect settlers instead. The fighting lasted six weeks and many people on both sides were killed or fled Minnesota. Former Minnesota governor Henry Sibley led an expedition of soldiers and Dakota scouts against the Dakota warriors. The war ended on December 26, 1862, when thirty-eight Dakota Indians were hanged in Mankato in the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Afterwards the government forced most of the remaining Dakota to leave Minnesota. For white Minnesotans, their experience of blood and terror negated all promises they had made to the Dakota. Stories and history books told about the great "Minnesota Massacre," but for many years the Indian side of the story was ignored.
The Saint Paul Interfaith Network home page explains the purpose of the organization and the 2011 series on racism. It also includes a 3 minute video introduction including Rev. Jim Bear Jacobs.
List of upcoming Powwows in the State of Minnesota. Listings are taken from the Independent Native American Newspaper - News from Indian Country
For anyone who is interested in following up on issues within the Native American community on a national scale, the News from Indian Country Newspaper is a good source of information.
Indian Country Communications, Inc. is an independent, Indian-owned, reservation based business. We are located on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Reservation in Northern Wisconsin and are one of the few tribally oriented publications that is not owned, or politically controlled by a tribal government.
ICC, Inc. is governed by a five member board of directors who oversee the CEO that produces IndianCountryTV.com, publishes News From Indian Country, and prints The Mishomis Book and Ojibwe Language materials.
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Resources related to the Sankofa trip about Native American experience here in Minnesota and the Twin Cities.
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