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In this special edition of Minnesota Native News, we hear Marty Case, Director of the Indian Treaty Signers Project. In this lecture “Treaty Signers: Making the American Myth” from The Minnesota Humanities Center, Case shares his research on how treaties transformed people’s relationship to land in what became the United States. Case separates reality from … [Read Transcript...]
He was Swede-Finn. He was Communist. And he was in the right town at the right time. Britt Aamodt tracks down America's first communist mayor in Crosby, Minnesota. [Read Transcript...]
This week on Minnesota Native News we hear from State Representative Susan Allen. Allen was a tribal attorney living in the Powderhorn neighborhood in south Minneapolis when – in 2012 – she was elected the first Native American woman to serve in the House of Representatives. She is part of the DFL party and now … [Read Transcript...]
Before the days of wrestlers and comedians in Minnesota politics, one politician named Magnus Johnson captured the state’s attention. He was America’s first Swedish-born Senator, with a bombastic personality like no other. Producer Sam Radwany reports. [Read Transcript...]
