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  "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

   

  "I take the occasion to say that this volume could not have been written but for access to the treasures of the Minnesota Historical Society." William W. Folwell, A History of Minnesota

   

  "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

   

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  Minnesota Sesquicentennial

   

  Native American Minnesota

   

  Public Historian

   

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

   

  We Are at Home: Pictures of the Ojibwe People

   

  The Wigleys of Mendota

   

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