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Attack on New Ulm, depicting the assault on the town of New Ulm, Minnesota, on 19 August 1862 at the beginning of the Dakota War, oil on canvas painting by Anton Gág, 1904. Minnesota Historical Society, Gale Family Library.

Mondamin (also given as Mon-Daw-Min, The Gift of Corn, and The Origin of Corn) is a tale from the Ojibwe Nation on how the people received corn from the Great Spirit through the vision quest of the young man, Wunzh, and his acts of selflessness...

Today, Minnesota is a highly diverse and evolving state. Many initiatives are teaching residents about the state's true history, helping people to make sense of the past and move forward in a good way. Efforts to commemorate the past and...

The Northwest Ordinance was enacted by the Confederation Congress of the United States on 13 July 1787. It created the Northwest Territory – comprised of the modern-day states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and part of Minnesota...

The Arapaho are a North American Native nation originally from the Red River Valley in modern-day Manitoba, Canada, and Minnesota, USA. They migrated south in the early 18th century and established themselves in modern-day Colorado, Montana...

This is the darkest chapter in Minnesota History. In Mankato, 38 Dakota were hanged in the largest mass execution in United States History. Just under Fort Snelling, over a thousand Dakota were held in a concentration camp where hundreds...

The 1544 painting by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) known as the 'Portrait of Six Tuscan Poets'. The poets are (left to right): Cino da Pistoia, Giuttone d'Arezzo, Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante Alighieri and Guido Cavalcanti. (Minneapolis...

An illustration of a Portuguese carrack ship from a 16th-century map. (Digital Library, University of Minnesota)

Thanksgiving Day play at an unknown Native American boarding school, c. 1900. Minnesota Historical Society.

Teacher and young boys posed for photograph at an unknown American Indian boarding school, c. 1900. Minnesota Historical Society.