Betty Crocker Cake Mix
General Mills did not invent cake mix, but in the early 1950s, Betty Crocker ...
The Ojibwe: Our Historical Role in Influencing Contemporary Minnesota
When I think about how the Ojibwe have helped shape this great state, I tend to ...
African Americans in Minnesota
African Americans have lived in Minnesota since the 1800s. The local African ...
"Half-Breed" Tract
The 1830 Treaty of Prairie du Chien set aside 320,000 acres of potentially ...
The Land, Water, and Language of the Dakota, Minnesota’s First People
The footprint of the Dakota people, past and present, is evident throughout ...
US–Dakota War of 1862
Though the war that ranged across southwestern Minnesota in 1862 between ...
Uusi Kotimaa
The Finnish-language newspaper Uusi Kotimaa (New Homeland) reached readers for ...
American Indian Movement (AIM)
The American Indian Movement (AIM), founded by grassroots activists in ...
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First Published: April 25, 2025
Washburn A Mill was one of twenty-six Minneapolis flour mills that lined the Mississippi River below St. Anthony Falls during the city’s industrial heyday. By the early 1900s, its company ...
First Published: March 20, 2025
The Finnish-language newspaper Uusi Kotimaa (New Homeland) reached readers for more than fifty years, from the 1880s until 1934. For all but five of those years, its headquarters was the ...
