Download or read book Ceding Contempt Minnesota s Most Significant Historical Event written by Colin Mustful and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Minnesota's fading frontier the once vibrant Dakota Indians were compelled and coerced to cede their bountiful homeland to those opportunists that would usher in a new era. In 1851, the Dakota Indians signed the Treaties of Traverse des Sioux and Mendota, selling their lands west of the Mississippi River. Frank Blackwell Mayer, a young artist from Baltimore, traveled to Minnesota to witness the negotiations between the Dakota Indians and the United States Government. Mayer captured images of the Dakota Indians and the fleeting frontier through a variety of Illustrations. But he also found more. He found a beautiful land and a burgeoning, multicultural society who sought a prosperous future. He also discovered the unique and extraordinary nature of the Dakota nation.

Download or read book Minnesota Historical Society Collections Volume 10 Part 1 written by Minnesota Historical Society and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lynchings in Duluth written by Michael Fedo and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the evening of June 15, 1920, in Duluth, Minnesota, three young black men, accused of the rape of a white woman, were pulled from their jail cells and lynched by a mob numbering in the thousands. Yet for years the incident was nearly forgotten. This updated, second edition of The Lynchings in Duluth includes a new preface by the author, additional research and notes, and suggestions for further reading. “This account of racial violence in the early twentieth century is a genuinely startling and illuminating contribution to our understanding of racial justice in the United States in the twenty-first. Many Americans have found it convenient to think that episodes like this come only from the Jim Crow–era Deep South. The Lynchings in Duluth is a powerful reminder of the broader American pattern.” James Fallows, The Atlantic “A chilling reconstruction of a 1920 racial tragedy. . . . Combining hour-by-hour, day-by-day narrative with expert scholarship based on interviews, suppressed documents and news reports, Fedo skillfully portrays Northern prejudice and violence.” Los Angeles Times “This tense book punches out a story of devastating fury. . . . As pointed as a Klansman’s cap, this book conveys the horror of mob action—and the disturbing truth that it knows no region.” Milwaukee Journal

Download or read book Orphan Trains written by Marylin Irvin Holt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-02-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This 'placing out,' an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known by the 'orphan trains' that carried the children. Holt carefully analyzes the system, initially instituted by the New York Children's Aid Society in 1853, tracking its imitators as well as the reasons for its creation and demise. She captures the children's perspective with the judicious use of oral histories, institutional records, and newspaper accounts. This well-written volume sheds new light on the multifaceted experience of children's immigration, changing concepts of welfare, and Western expansion. It is good, scholarly social history."—Library Journal

Download or read book Josie Dances written by Denise Lajimodiere and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Ojibwe girl practices her dance steps, gets help from her family, and is inspired by the soaring flight of Migizi, the eagle, as she prepares for her first powwow.

Download or read book While the Locust Slept written by Peter Razor and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a teenager, he makes two failed attempts to run away from the orphanage."

Download or read book Night Flying Woman written by Ignatia Broker and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the accounts of the lives of several generations of Ojibway people in Minnesota is much information about their history and culture.

Download or read book Minnesota in the Civil War written by Kenneth Carley and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated, richly detailed book presents for the first time a comprehensive picture of Minnesota's involvement in the Civil War.

Download or read book Spirit Car written by Diane Wilson and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A child of a typical 1950s suburb unearths her mother's hidden heritage, launching a rich and magical exploration of her own identity and her family's powerful Native American past.

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Download or read book Days of Rondo written by Evelyn Fairbanks and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evelyn Fairbanks lived along Rondo Avenue-the heart of St. Paul's largest black community-from the 1930s through the 1950s. Her memoir tells warm and human stories recalling those years in a vibrant community that vanished with the coming of the freeways in the 1960s.

Download or read book A Son of the Middle Border written by Hamlin Garland and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garland's coming-of-age autobiography that established him as a master of American realism.

Download or read book Collections Of The Minnesota Historical Society Volume 1 Part 2 Volume 10 Part 2 written by Minnesota Historical Society and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multi-volume collection contains a wealth of primary source material related to the history of Minnesota and the Midwest United States, including diaries, letters, government documents, and other archival records. The volumes cover a wide range of topics, from Native American history to frontier settlement to the Civil War and beyond. The collection will be of interest to scholars of American history and those interested in exploring the rich cultural heritage of the region. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book A Choice of Weapons written by Gordon Parks and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2010 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gordon Parks's spectacular rise from poverty, personal hardships, and outright racism is astounding and inspiring." --from the foreword by Wing Young Huie

Download or read book Slavery s Reach written by Christopher Lehman and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A set of mutually beneficial relationships between southern slaveholders and Minnesotans kept the men and women whose labor generated the wealth enslaved.

Download or read book My First Years in the Fur Trade written by George Nelson and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed and perceptive account of the fur trade seen through the eyes of a teenaged boy.

Download or read book The Relentless Business of Treaties written by Martin Case and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How making treaties for land cessions with Native American nations transformed human relationships to the land and became a profitable family business.