The State We're in: Reflections on Minnesota History

by Atkins, Annette

• ISBN13: 9780873517737
• ISBN10: 0873517733
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Pr

Summary

On the occasion of Minnesotars"s 150th anniversary of statehood, more than a hundred historians and other writers assembled to discuss the subjects they had been studying, thinking, and writing about. This book presents the best of that work, including nineteen essays on topics as varied as baseball at Native American boarding schools, nineteenth-century predictions for Minnesotars"s future, Native American tourist goods, the Kensington rune stone, and a memoir of growing up in Marshall. Bringing together some of the most recent and best thinking about Minnesotars"s past and its people,The State Wers"re Indemonstrates the history of this place, in all its rich complexity, before and after statehood. Contributors include Melodie Andrews, Annette Atkins, Marge Barrett, Matt Callahan, Emily Ganzel, Linda LeGarde Grover, Louis Jenkins, David J. Laliberte, James Madison, J. Thomas Murphy, Nora Murphy, Traci M. Nathans-Kelly, Paula Nelson, Patrick Nunnally, Linda Schloff, Gregory Schroeder, Hamp Smith, Barbara W. Sommer, Tangi Villerbu, Howard J. Vogel, Steven Werle, Bill Wittenbreer, and Michael Zalar. Annette Atkins, author ofCreating Minnesota,Harvest of Grief, andWe Grew Up Together, teaches at Saint Johnrs"s University/College of Saint Benedict. Deborah L. Miller, reference specialist at the Minnesota Historical Society and coauthor ofPotluck Paradise, is an expert on Minnesota ethnicity and community cookbooks.

Author Biography

Annette Atkins, author of Creating Minnesota, Harvest of Grief, and We Grew Up Together, teaches at Saint John's University/College of Saint Benedict. Deborach L. Miller, reference specialist at the Minnesota Historical Society and coauthor of Potluck Paradise: Favorite Fare from Church and Community Cookbooks, is an expert on Minnesota ethnicity and community cookbooks.

Table of Contents

Welcome to Minnesota: The State We're In	p. 3
State History in Regional Perspective	p. 18
State History in Local Perspective	p. 25
Memory
Remembering Our Past	p. 35
The Myth of the "Forgotten" Treaty: Traditions about the St. Peters Treaty of 1837	p. 39
The U.S.-Dakota War in Public Memory and Public Space: Mankato's Journey Toward Reconciliation	p. 50
Telling River Stories: The Mississippi River Runs Through All of Us	p. 61
The Maples: Is This Land My Land?	p. 69
The Flood	p. 85
Up North
Duluth	p. 99
The History of Duluth as I Recall It	p. 101
Kosher with a Modern Tinge: Two Generations of Jewish Women in Virginia, Minnesota, 1894-1945	p. 102
The Stone Tomahawk: Ojibwe Tradition, Resourcefulness, and Survival in Northeastern Minnesota	p. 118
"We Had this Opportunity": African Americans and the Civilian Conservation Corps in Minnesota	p. 134
The Case of the Inept Forger	p. 158
Identity
Early Catholic Minnesota: New Sources and New Questions	p. 173
"To Sound my Trumpet": Henry Hastings Sibley, Minnesota, and the Rise of a National Identity	p. 196
The Christie Brothers' Civil War: A Reflection of Minnesota's Experience	p. 211
Baseball at Native American Boarding Schools in Minnesota: A History	p. 232
Method
The Public Side of History: Museums, the Recent Past and Possible Future	p. 245
Thawing a Frozen Moment: A Photograph and the Diary That Brought It to Life	p. 259
Embracing Compiled Cookbooks as Historical Documents	p. 271
Looking Forward: Mid-Nineteenth-Century Predictions for Minnesota's Future	p. 281
Eden	p. 295
Biographies	p. 319
Index	p. 325
Picture Credits	p. 337
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