By Thomas Dahlheimer
The Minnesota Sesquicentennial Commission has a web site with a
homepage link to a blog site that is guided by Sesquicentennial Advisory Committee for Native American Partnering (SACNAP).
Statements displayed on the MN Sesquicentennial Commission’s site:
“The Minnesota Sesquicentennial Commission is
committed to raising awareness and educating
Minnesotans about our past, recognizing the indigenous people of Minnesota, and learning from complex and diverse cultures that have come and continue to come to Minnesota.”
“As StarTribune columnist Lori Sturdevant wrote in
October, 2007, ‘There’s likely no better opportunity
for some serious truth-telling about early Minnesota
than the yearlong history lesson this state is about
to commence.'”
“The lesson should reveal this truth: Minnesotans
share a place, a climate, a government. But they do
not share one culture. They never did. And this
state’s success — maybe now more than ever — depends
on its people’s ability to respect cultures other than
their own and peacefully resolve conflict between
cultures.”
The staff of the Minnesota Sesquicentennial Commission
has a page on their web site titled “May is American
Indian Month in Minnesota”. The statement is intended
to “…bear witness to the tragic side of Minnesota
Statehood in 1858 and acknowledge the pain, loss and
suffering of the Native American culture in
Minnesota.”
The Sesquicentennial Commission and its volunteers
will strive to increase pride in Minnesota by:
(2.) “Raising awareness and educating Minnesotans by
telling the stories of our past, recognizing the
indigenous people of Minnesota, learning from them,..”
The public is asked to get involved. Griff
Wigley, Project Leader of SACNAP, posted a comment of
mine on the SACNAP blog site, which includes a link to
my (on-line) “Dakota Human Rights Violations In Anoka,
Minnesota””document. Anoka is located within the
Dakota’s Wakan/”Mille Lacs” (central MN) or
Wakan/”Rum””River Watershed ancestral/traditional
homeland.
Mr. Wigley recently informed me that he will soon post
my (on-line) “Healing the painful wounds of a genocide
in Minnesota””article.
Also, Waziyatawin Angela Wilson, historian and a
leading MN Dakota Indian activist, has information
about her perspective on Minnesota’s genocidal history
display on SACNAP’s blog site. In an audio/recorded
radio broadcast, Wilson said that she hopes that the
Dakota will eventually regain some of their Mille Lacs
(central MN) ancestral homeland wild rice grounds. In
respect to my (on-line) “Regaining The Dakota’s Sacred
Mille Lacs Ancestral Homeland””article, Wilson told me
“your doing good work”.
SACNAP’s blog site is located at:
http://nativeamericanminn150.org.
Waziyatawin’s audio/recorded radio broadcast is
located at: http://resistanceisfertile.ca/waziyatawin2.html.
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