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Author : Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Minnesota and Its People written by Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis Albert Fritsche
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book History of Brown County, Minnesota written by Louis Albert Fritsche and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chia Youyee Vang
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780873515986
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Hmong in Minnesota written by Chia Youyee Vang and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2008 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minnesota has always been a land of immigrants. Successive waves have each made their own way, found their place, and made it their home. The Hmong are one of the most recent immigrant groups, and their remarkable and moving story is told in Hmong in Minnesota. Chia Youyee Vang reveals the colorful, intricate history of Hmong Minnesotans, many of whom were forced to flee their homeland of Laos when the communists seized power during the Vietnam War. Having assisted U.S. troops in the "Secret War," Hmong soldiers and civilians were eligible to settle in the United States. Vang offers a unique window into the lives of the Minnesota Hmong through the stories of individuals who represent the experiences of many. One voice is that of Mao Heu Thao, one of the first refugees to come to Minnesota, sponsored by Catholic Charities in 1976. She tells of the unexpectedly cold weather, the strange food, and the kindness of her hosts. By introducing readers to the immigrants themselves, Hmong in Minnesota conveys a population's struggle to adjust to new environments, build communities, maintain cultural practices, and make its mark on government policies and programs. Chia Youyee Vang was born in Laos and as a child escaped with her family to the United States. An assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, she specializes in the study of Hmong community-building efforts.
Author : Berit Thorkelson, Roxanne Kjarum
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ISBN 13 : 9781610604642
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Only in Minnesota written by Berit Thorkelson, Roxanne Kjarum and published by . This book was released on with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only in Minnesota is a pictorial tribute to all that makes the state unique. Combining the natural, historical, and cultural facets of life in Minnesota, it showcases the people and what they do for fun (the Uptown Art Fair, ice fishing), where they live (from the cities of Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, and Rochester to smaller towns and rural regions in between), their favorite places (Mille Lacs, Split Rock Lighthouse), and more. More than 160 dazzling, four-color photographs, showing a variety of subjects--from farms and churches to tourist destinations and state parks; from nature scenes to city festivals and cultural events--are the focus of Only in Minnesota. These photographs are accented by lively captions and fun facts. The result is a homage to the Gopher state from a local author and photographer whose love for Minnesota comes through on every page. Roxanne Kjarum is a freelance photographer who shoots advertising for money and the natural world for love. Her first published work was in Sierra Club magazine in 1988; since then her photography has appeared in numerous publications, including MPLS.ST.PAUL Magazine, Lake Superior Magazine, and Metropolitan Home.
Author : Norman K. Risjord
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780873515320
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (153 download)
Download or read book A Popular History of Minnesota written by Norman K. Risjord and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A grand tour of the North Star State's geographical, political, and human history, including travelers' guides to historic destinations.
Author : Mary Lethert Wingerd
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816648689
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book North Country written by Mary Lethert Wingerd and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1862, four years after Minnesota was ratified as the thirty-second state in the Union, simmering tensions between indigenous Dakota and white settlers culminated in the violent, six-week-long U.S.-Dakota War. Hundreds of lives were lost on both sides, and the war ended with the execution of thirty-eight Dakotas on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesota--the largest mass execution in American history. The following April, after suffering a long internment at Fort Snelling, the Dakota and Winnebago peoples were forcefully removed to South Dakota, precipitating the near destruction of the area's native communities while simultaneously laying the foundation for what we know and recognize today as Minnesota. In North Country: The Making of Minnesota, Mary Lethert Wingerd unlocks the complex origins of the state--origins that have often been ignored in favor of legend and a far more benign narrative of immigration, settlement, and cultural exchange. Moving from the earliest years of contact between Europeans and the indigenous peoples of the western Great Lakes region to the era of French and British influence during the fur trade and beyond, Wingerd charts how for two centuries prior to official statehood Native people and Europeans in the region maintained a hesitant, largely cobeneficial relationship. Founded on intermarriage, kinship, and trade between the two parties, this racially hybridized society was a meeting point for cultural and economic exchange until the western expansion of American capitalism and violation of treaties by the U.S. government during the 1850s wore sharply at this tremulous bond, ultimately leading to what Wingerd calls Minnesota's Civil War. A cornerstone text in the chronicle of Minnesota's history, Wingerd's narrative is augmented by more than 170 illustrations chosen and described by Kirsten Delegard in comprehensive captions that depict the fascinating, often haunting representations of the region and its inhabitants over two and a half centuries. North Country is the unflinching account of how the land the Dakota named Mini Sota Makoce became the State of Minnesota and of the people who have called it, at one time or another, home.
Author : Anne Gillespie Lewis
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 0873517539
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Swedes in Minnesota written by Anne Gillespie Lewis and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise history of Swedes in Minnesota and the enormous influence that they have had on our state's politics, history, and culture.
Author : Sun Yung Shin
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 1681340038
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book A Good Time for the Truth written by Sun Yung Shin and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative book, 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. They give readers a splendid gift: the gift of touching another human being’s inner reality, behind masks and veils and politeness. They bring us generously into experiences that we must understand if we are to come together in real relationships. Minnesota communities struggle with some of the nation’s worst racial disparities. As its authors confront and consider the realities that lie beneath the numbers, this book provides an important tool to those who want to be part of closing those gaps. With contributions by: Taiyon J. Coleman, Heid E. Erdrich, Venessa Fuentes, Shannon Gibney, David Grant, Carolyn Holbrook, IBé, Andrea Jenkins, Robert Karimi, JaeRan Kim, Sherry Quan Lee, David Mura, Bao Phi, Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria, Diane Wilson, Kao Kalia Yang
Author : Annette Atkins
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873516648
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Creating Minnesota written by Annette Atkins and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a Spur Award, presented by the Western Writers of America (WWA), for the Best Western Nonfiction Historical Book. Renowned historian Annette Atkins presents a fresh understanding of how a complex and modern Minnesota came into being in Creating Minnesota. Each chapter of this innovative state history focuses on a telling detail, a revealing incident, or a meaningful issue that illuminates a larger event, social trends, or politics during a period in our past. A three-act play about Minnesota's statehood vividly depicts the competing interests of Natives, traders, and politicians who lived in the same territory but moved in different worlds. Oranges are the focal point of a chapter about railroads and transportation: how did a St. Paul family manage to celebrate their 1898 Christmas with fruit that grew no closer than 1,500 miles from their home? A photo essay brings to life three communities of the 1920s, seen through the lenses of local and itinerant photographers. The much-sought state fish helps to explain the new Minnesota, where pan-fried walleye and walleye quesadillas coexist on the same north woods menu. In Creating Minnesota Atkins invites readers to experience the texture of people's lives through the decades, offering a fascinating and unparalleled approach to the history of our state.
Author : June Drenning Holmquist
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book They Chose Minnesota written by June Drenning Holmquist and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on ground-breaking research, this book describes the unique concerns of individual ethnic groups and delves into their personal Minnesota stories: farmers and factory workers, families and single people, idealists and pragmatists, people who were devout or irreligious -- those who cut ties with their homeland and formed part of Minnesota's ethnic saga.
Author : Rebecca Kugel
Publisher : MSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0870139320
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book To Be the Main Leaders of Our People written by Rebecca Kugel and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1868, people from several Ojibwe villages located along the upper Mississippi River were relocated to a new reservation at White Earth, more than 100 miles to the west. In many public declarations that accompanied their forced migration, these people appeared to embrace the move, as well as their conversion to Christianity and the new agrarian lifestyle imposed on them. Beneath this surface piety and apparent acceptance of change, however, lay deep and bitter political divisions that were to define fundamental struggles that shaped Ojibwe society for several generations. In order to reveal the nature and extent of this struggle for legitimacy and authority, To Be The Main Leaders of Our People reconstructs the political and social history of these Minnesota Ojibwe communities between the years 1825 and 1898. Ojibwe political concerns, the thoughts and actions of Ojibwe political leaders, and the operation of the Ojibwe political system define the work's focus. Kugel examines this particular period of time because of its significance to contemporary Ojibwe history. The year 1825, for instance, marked the beginning of a formal alliance with the United States; 1898 represented not an end, but a striking point of continuity, defying the easy categorizations of Native peoples made by non-Indians, especially in the closing years of the nineteenth century. In this volume, the Ojibwe "speak for themselves," as their words were recorded by government officials, Christian missionaries, fur traders, soldiers, lumbermen, homesteaders, and journalists. While they were nearly always recorded in English translation, Ojibwe thoughts, perceptions, concerns, and even humor, clearly emerge. To Be The Main Leaders of Our People expands the parameters of how oral traditions can be used in historical writing and sheds new light on a complex, but critical, series of events in ongoing relations between Native and non-Native people.
Author : Dave Kenney
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 0873519000
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Minnesota in the '70s written by Dave Kenney and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Minnesota forged an identity during the 1970s that would persist, rightly or wrongly, for decades to come. It was a place of note and consequence--a state of presidential candidates, grassroots activism, civic engagement, environmental awareness, and Mary Tyler Moore. All these subjects and more are covered in this book"--
Author : Ann Heinrichs
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780756503154
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Minnesota written by Ann Heinrichs and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the geography, history, government, people, culture, and attractions of Minnesota.
Author : David Vassar Taylor
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 0873516532
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)
Download or read book African Americans in Minnesota written by David Vassar Taylor and published by Minnesota Historical Society Press. This book was released on 2009-06-26 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of the rich history of Blacks in the state through careful analysis of census and housing records, newspaper records, and first-person accounts.
Author : Kate Roberts
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780873515948
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Minnesota 150 written by Kate Roberts and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fabulous showcase of individuals, events, and inventions that have made Minnesota.
Author : Ahmed Ismail Yusuf
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0873518748
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Somalis in Minnesota written by Ahmed Ismail Yusuf and published by Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 2012 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Somalis in Minnesota begins with three words: sahan, war, and martisoor. Driven from their homeland by civil war and famine, one group of Somali sahan, pioneers, discovered well-paying jobs in the city of Marshall, Minnesota. Soon the war, news, traveled that not only was employment available but the people in this northern state, so different in climate from their African homeland, were generous in martisoor, hospitality, just like the Somali people themselves. The diaspora began in 1992, and today more than fifty thousand Somalis live in Minnesota, the most of any state. Many have made their lives in small towns and rural areas, and many more have settled in Minneapolis, earning this city the nickname "Little Somalia" or "Little Mogadishu." Amiable guide Ahmed Yusuf introduces readers to these varied communities, exploring economic and political life, religious and cultural practices, and successes in education and health care. he also tackles the controversial topics that command newspaper headlines: alleged links to terrorist organizations and the recruitment of young Somali men to fight in the civil war back home. This newest addition to the people of Minnesota series captures the story of the state's most recent immigrant group at a pivotal time in its history.
Author : John Harrington Stevens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Personal Recollections of Minnesota and Its People written by John Harrington Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
