The Land We Stand On Now
We stand on the homelands of the Wahpekute band of the Dakota Nation. We honor with gratitude the people who’ve stewarded the land through the generations and their ongoing contributions to this region. We acknowledge the ongoing injustices that we have committed to the Dakota Nation, and we wish to interrupt this legacy, beginning with acts of healing and honest storytelling about this place.
- Dakota WicohanHistory on the Dakota, who are the keepers of the eastern door to the greater D/L/Nakota Nation. The Dakota are comprised of four bands; Mdewakanton, Sissetonwan, Wahpetonwan, and Wahpekute.
- Native LandAn Indigenous-led project to outline the boundaries of Indigenous ancestral territories, languages, and Cessions in North America.
- Bdote Memory MapA beginning resource for understanding more about the Dakota people's relationship to Minnesota.
- Newcomers: The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862Excellent maps and visualizations.
- Land & Lifeways: The US-Dakota War of 1862Includes primary and secondary sources about the Dakota Homeland, and links to other related projects. From the Minnesota Historical Society.
Books
Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota by ISBN: 9780873518697Publication Date: 2012-09-01Drawing on oral history interviews, archival work, and painstaking comparisons of Dakota, French, and English sources, Mni Sota Makoce tells the detailed history of the Dakota people in their traditional homelands for at least hundreds of years prior to exile.
We all go back to the Land by Call Number: Carleton E98.S7 K44 2021ISBN: 9781550598674Publication Date: 2021More info in Catalyst...
Suzanne Keeptwo sees the Land Acknowledgement as an opportunity for Indigenous people in Canada to communicate their worldview to non-Indigenous Canadians—a worldview founded upon Age Old Wisdom about how to sustain the Land we all want to call home. For Keeptwo, the Land Acknowledgement is a way to teach and a way to learn: a living, evolving record of First Nation, Métis, and Inuit people in Canada and the Land that for millennia they held in pristine condition.
Say We Are Nations: Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America since 1887 by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781469624815Publication Date: 2015More information in the Catalyst record
More than fifty documents gathered here are organized chronologically and thematically.
Indigenous People in Minnesota
- Dakota WicohanHistory on the Dakota, who are the keepers of the eastern door to the greater D/L/Nakota Nation. The Dakota are comprised of four bands; Mdewakanton, Sissetonwan, Wahpetonwan, and Wahpekute.
- Bdote Memory MapA beginning resource for understanding more about the Dakota people's relationship to Minnesota.
- Newcomers: The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862Excellent maps and visualizations.
- Land & Lifeways: The US-Dakota War of 1862Includes primary and secondary sources about the Dakota Homeland, and links to other related projects. From the Minnesota Historical Society.
- Dakota Family History Research Guide (Minnesota Historical Society)Links to resources for doing genealogical and other historical research about the Dakota people from the 19th and 20th century. Some of these resources are online, others are on paper at the Historical Society.
- Native Americans (Fort Snelling, Minnesota Historical Society)Minnesota is centered within Dakota creation stories and is an important place in traditional Ojibwe history. Along with the Dakota and Ojibwe, the Ho-Chunk, Cheyenne, Oto, Iowa, and the Sac & Fox tribes also acknowledge Minnesota as important to their tribal histories.
- Dakota History in Minnesota [Religions in Minnesota project]This exhibit focuses on the history of the Wahpekute Nation of Dakota Indians in the region around Faribault.
- All Native American exhibits [Religions in Minnesota project]A group of exhibits about Native Americans in Minnesota.
