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KAXE Programs - Our
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Our History Archives: |
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 Dan
Spock, Director of the
Minnesota History Center
Museum spoke recently with
Scott Hall to talk about
a
current exhibit detailing
the US-Dakota War of 1862.
One Hundred and Fifty
years ago, in the Summer of
1862,
at the height of the
American Civil War,a
terrible civil war broke out
in Minnesota
between the U.S. government
and the Dakota Indians.
Minnesota had been a state
for only four years.
But in the 20 years before
statehood,
the federal government had
made many treaties
with the Dakota and Ojibwe
in the Minnesota territory.
And the federal government
had failed to live up to
manyof
its obligations in those
treaties.
By the summer
of 1862, the Dakota people
were starving and desperate.
In August, war broke out
when three Dakota men
attackedand
murdered white homesteaders.
Over the next six
weeks,
hundreds of Dakota and white
settlers and soldiers were
killed, and
about twenty thousand
settlers fled their homes.
The Dakota were defeated,
prisoners rounded up,
and in December, 1862, the
largest execution in U.S.
history
occurred when 38 Dakota were
hanged.
A new exhibit on the U.S. -
Dakota War opens june 30th
at the Minnesota
History Center in St. Paul.
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Aila
Ivonen talks with Scott Hall
about the history of
Kaleva Hall, a
temperance hall in Virginia
built in 1906.
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Brenda
Child talks with Scott Hall
about her new book,
Holding Our World Together:
Ojibwe Women and the
Survival of Community.
They discuss the
pre-European and
post-European Ojibwe
culture, particularly as it
relates to female roles in
Ojibwe society.
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Leech
Lake Native American writer,
David Treuer,
has a new book,
"Rez Life."
The author of three novels
and one collection of
essays, "Rez Life" is his
first full length work of
non-fiction. In the book,
Treuer addresses tough and
controversial subjects like
treaty rights and relations
with non-Indians; and the
corruption and shortcomings
of tribal governments and
leadership. He skillfully
weaves valuable historical
data into narratives that
tie the large historical and
legal issues he writes about
to the lives of contemporary
Indians living in Minnesota.
Charlie Pulkrabek has an in
depth conversation with
Treuer at the Cass Lake
Library.
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Oliver
and Gertie Juntenen and the
History of Suomi:
It's not a town or township,
but when Finnish-American
families moved there 95
years ago it became a
vibrant community that
exists to this day. Oliver
and Gertie were born and
raised there. They met in
grade school and still live
on their family's original
homestead.
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Cary Miller, Professor of
History at the University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, talks
with Scott Hall about her
book, Ogimaag:
Anishinaabeg Leadership,
1760 to 1845. Miller
provides a fresh look at
Ojibwe leadership, including
the role of hereditary,
religious and warrior
leaders within Ojibwe
communities, and how they
dealt with the arrival of
outsiders.
Cary Miller on
Ogimaag,
August 8, 2011 |
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Fifty years ago this month,
President Dwight Eisenhower
gave his farewell speech to
the American people.
Eisenhower talked about how,
for the first time in our
history, it was necessary to
have a large and prepared
military establishment; and,
as a result of that, we
should guard against "the
acquisition of unwarranted
influence... by the
military-industrial
complex." Eisenhower's chief
speech writer at the time
was a Minnesotan - Malcom
Moos, a journalist,
political scientist, and
future president of the
University of Minnesota.
After leaving the White
House in 1961, Moos built a
cabin on Ten Mile Lake north
of Hackensack. Last fall,
two of Moos' children, Grant
and Kathy, found 21 drafts
of Ike's farewell address in
the boathouse at the lake.
The drafts were written by
their father during the
eight months before
Eisenhower gave the speech.
The drafts, memos and
research materials contain
notes from Eisenhower and
his staff. The Moos' sent
the notes to the Eisenhower
Library in Abilene, Kansas.
Grant Moos says he knew
there were documents from
his dad's years at the White
House, but he didn't know
they contained the drafts of
the historic speech.
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The Assassination of Hole
In The Day: Author and
Professor of Ojibwe at
Bemidji State, Anton Treuer,
talks about his new book
about the dynamic and
controversial 19th century
Ojibwe leader,
Bagone-ghiizhig (a.k.a. Hole
In The Day the Younger).
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