MinnesotaHistory.net

a forum for discussing current events relating to the history of Minnesota

• Pages

  • About MinnesotaHistory.net
  • MinnesotaHistory.net Archives
  • About the Photographs
  • Information Policy of the Minnesota Historical Society
  • Bdote EIS: the ongoing story
  • Honoring Wiyaka Sinte Win/ Tail Feather Woman and her vision
  • MinnesotaHistory.net Comments

• Philosophy

   

  "The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

   

  "The point of this place: don’t ask for much, ask/ for everything. Get: details as everywhere." Patricia Hampl, Resort

   

  "Nothing in my education prepared me to believe, or encouraged me to expect that there was any reason

  to be interested in my own place." Paul Gruchow, Grass Roots: The Universe of Home

   

  "History Matters." The motto of a current funding campaign by the Minnesota Historical Socety, unrelated to this website

   

  "History matters for [Indian people], in part because the issues of the past come back again and again." Bruce White, We Are at Home: Pictures of the Ojibwe People

   

• Minnesota Historical Bloggers

  
  100 Best Minnesota Books
  

  10,000 Books Weblog--MHS Press

   

  Dumpy Minnesota Strip Malls

   

  Holdingford

   

  Mendota Dakota Community

   

  Minnesota Country Mouse

   

  Minnesota Historical Society/

  Researchers Notebook

   

  Minnesota Sesquicentennial

   

  Native American Minnesota

   

  Public Historian

   

  SaintPaulite

  The Deets: "You Want The Deets? You Can't HANDLE The Deets"

   

  A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity
  

  We Are at Home: Pictures of the Ojibwe People
  

   

  The Wigleys of Mendota

   

  The Woo Woo Teacup Journal

   

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• Recent Comments

  • Bruce White on Six Years Ago–Park Service to Dakota People: “Drop Dead.”
  • Bruce White on Information Policy of the Minnesota Historical Society
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  • John Q. Public on Six Years Ago–Park Service to Dakota People: “Drop Dead.”
  • Debbra Myers on The Park Service must leave Coldwater Spring

• The photos at the top

  The photos at the top of these pages are designed to reflect the land, the history, the people and the culture of Minnesota, in all their variety. More details about these photos can be found on the "About the Photographs" page.

• How to participate in MinnesotaHistory.net

  To comment click on the comments line at the bottom of each story.

  To write a story for MinnesotaHistory.net, send an idea or story to Bruce.White@minnesota history.net

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