by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer ______________________________________________________________________ On Wednesday, April 14, 2010, The Mille Lacs Messenger, a Minnesota county newspaper, published the following letter of mine. The three paragraphs in italic type […]
By Thomas Dahlheimer Introduction: In response to my recent Mille Lacs Messenger letter “Apology needed” the Messenger published Cheryl Anderson’s letter “A response to Mr. Dahlheimer“. And this week the […]
by Thomas Dahlheimer Every 3.6 seconds someone starves to death. 16,000 children die daily due tohunger. 800 million-plus people go to bed hungry, including 300 millionchildren. 2.7 billion people live […]
———————— by Thomas Dahlheimer This article is mostly about how and why European Christian colonists used alcohol as a chemical weapon of warfare in their genocidal and ethnic cleansing mistreatment […]
by Thomas Dahlheimer On September 9, the Mille Lacs Messenger, a Minnesota county newspaper, published the following letter to the editor of mine. On Aug. 18, I met with Rep. […]
By Thomas Dahlheimer Minnesota Representative Dean Urdahl expects to offer an Apology Resolution (reconciliation bill) that apologizes for the mistreatment and exploitation of Minnesota’s indigenous people? Urdahl recently informed me […]
Written by Thomas Dahlheimer On August 5th, 2009 the following letter to the editor was published in the Mille Lacs Messenger. Restore Ogechie Lake I support the effort to restore […]
The Mille Lacs Messenger, a Minnesota county newspaper, recently published a letter of mine (presented below) about my effort to prepare the way for the Mdewakanton’s to reclaim their sacred […]
by Thomas Dahlheimer I am an Indigenous Peoples’ rights activist who wrote a draft bill to change Minnesota’s 13 derogatory geographic place names that are offensive to Natives. When Mike […]
By Thomas Dahlheimer For many Dakota Indians, reclaiming their traditional/ancestral homelands in Minnesota, from which their ancestors were forced, and from which they are currently exiled, is an important mission […]
By Greg Peterson, Indian County Today correspondent Story Published: Oct 24, 2008 MARQUETTE, Mich. – A Lutheran pastor shocked some non-indian members of a multicultural conference in Michigan when he […]
By Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer Sojourners founder Rev. Jim Wallis, while addressing the economic downturn in his keynote address Feb. 28, at the annual Religious Education Congress in Anaheim, […]
By Thomas Dahlheimer I recently sent Archbishop John C. Nienstedt a letter wherein I enclosed, both, a copy of a recent letter that I received from Bishop John Kinney as […]
by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer I recently met with Kathy Langer, the Director of the Saint Cloud Diocesan Social Concerns Committee and a member of the Minnesota Catholic Conference. We had […]
By Thomas Dahlheimer The Sioux, or Dakota, consist of seven tribes in three major divisions: Wahpekute, Mdewakanton, Wahpeton, Sisseton (who together form the Santee or Eastern division, sometimes referred to […]
On January 20, 2009 the Mille Lacs Messenger published the following letter of mine. Still rationalizing In a best-selling book about the history of the American West, Theodore Roosevelt wrote: […]
On December 19, 2008 – the following letter to the editor of mine was published in Minnesota’s Anoka County newspaper, the Anoka County Union. The population of Anoka County is […]
On January 6, 2009 – the Mille Lacs Messenger published the following letter of mine. It was "the letter of the week". Throughout the history of Christianity has this religion […]
by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer Old and New Testament scriptures have been misinterpreted by Christians, causing the Christian religion to become an imperialistic war-mongering religion, whose adherents have believed that they […]
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Alcohol in the fur trade
The following letter was published in the Mille Lacs Messenger on March 17, 2010. Roman Catholic French colonists used the Ojibwe’s weakness to abuse alcohol during the fur trade era […]