sixteen of Minnesota’s best writers provide a range of perspectives on what it is like to live as a person of color in one of the whitest states in the nation

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historical analysis

Yet naked eye observation allows one to construct a highly accurate calendar using the ordered patterns and motions of the celestial bodies

Our Relations...the Mixed Bloods: Indigenous Transformation and Dispossession in the Western Great Lakes Potawatomi sixteen of Minnesota’s best writersIn the Great Lakes region of the nineteenth century, mixed bloods were a class of people living within changing indigenous communities. As such, they were considered in treaties signed between the tribal nations and the federal government. Larry Nesper focuses on the implementation and long term effects of the mixed blood provision of the 1854 treaty with the Chippewa of Wisconsin. That treaty not only ceded lands and created the Ojibwe Indian