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Category Archives: Commemorating Controversy
Follow the Money: August 13,1862
One hundred and fifty years ago today, the 1862 Dakota annuity payment was a month overdue. Why? This post only hints at the reasons, but supplies the sequence of what happened behind the scenes. After the Treaties of 1851 were proclaimed … Continue reading →
Primary Sources on the Dakota War of 1862
The Back Story Last year, I laid out a precursor to this blog. My idea was simple: in commemoration of this year, three or four times per week I would publish a transcription of a primary source commenting on 1862 … Continue reading →
Little Crow Series in the Star Tribune
Friday August 10, 2012 Minneapolis Star Tribune journalist Curt Brown appeared on Twin Cities Public Television’s Almanac show in a preview of a six-part Dakota War story set to unfold daily in the Star Tribune, Sunday, August 12 through Friday August 17, 2012. … Continue reading →
Scott W. Berg Interview
I love historiography–the story of how history is made. And I love that in this year of 150th commemorative of the Dakota War of 1862, I live at a crossroads where history is being made. This interview with Scott W. … Continue reading →
The Beam Mystery Proceeds Apace
Jessica Potter, director of the Blue Earth County Historical Society, hasn’t simply waited out this spring’s media storm about identity of the “timber” in their store-room (above). Potter announced in her column in the Summer 2012 edition of The Blue … Continue reading →
Honored Guests
John Peacock, Sandra Geshick, Michael Simon, Clifford Canku, Oak Grove Presbyterian Church, Bloomington, MN July 15, 2012 sharing Dakota history from a Dakota perspective: the Dakota Prisoner of War Letters and their own stories. If you weren’t able to join … Continue reading →
Lac qui Parle
Mde Ia Udan (Lac qui Parle), July 8, 2012. For the first fourteen years of his life, John Baptiste Renville woke up to this view every day. Yesterday, Sunday July 8, I was privileged to speak in the historic reconstructed … Continue reading →
“Revisiting a war that shaped Minnesota”
This morning, the St. Paul Pioneer Press ran a front page article on the opening of the new 1862 exhibit at the Minnesota Historical Society. The e-version of the article is available on the Pioneer Press website, here.
What’s Missing
Dakota quilled moccasins. The Minnesota Historical Society. In the process of designing the new 1862 exhibit at the History Center in St. Paul, the Minnesota Historical Society stuck its neck out. You know the old joke: What happens when you … Continue reading →
Clubs, Hatchets, Knives and Beams Part 7 and PDF
The conclusion of a seven-part series on European American/Native American War Artifacts and the Ethics of Display by Zabelle Stodola, professor of literature and cultural studies at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. The series begins here. Part 7: “Showing Basic Human … Continue reading →
A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity: Dispatches from the Dakota War of 1862 