Minnesota Historical Society Press imprint: 155 books
The Ojibwa Dance Drum
Its History and Contruction
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Hiding in a lake under lily pads after fleeing U.S. soldiers, a Dakota woman was given a vision over the course of four days instructing her to build a large drum and teaching her the songs that would bring peace and end the killing of her people. From the Dakota, the "big drum" spread throughout...
Dakota Philosopher
Charles Eastman and American Indian Thought
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Charles Eastman (1858–1939) straddled two worlds in his life and writing. The author of Indian Boyhood was raised in the traditional Dakota (Sioux) way after the upheaval of the 1862 U.S.–Dakota War. His father later persuaded Ohiyesa to take a white name, study Christianity, and attend medical...
by Samuel W. Pond
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
In 1834 Samuel W. Pond and his brother Gideon built a cabin near Cloud Man's village of the Dakota Indians on the shore of Lake Calhoun—now present-day Minneapolis—intending to preach Christianity to the Indians. The brothers were to spend nearly twenty years learning the Dakota language and observing...
What This Awl Means
Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
This pioneering work focuses on excavations and discoveries at Little Rapids, a 19th-century Eastern Dakota planting village near present-day Minneapolis.
Fractured Land
The Price of Inheriting Oil
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
What does an environmentalist do when she realizes she will inherit mineral rights and royalties on fracked oil wells in North Dakota? How does she decide between financial security and living as a committed conservationist who wants to leave her grandchildren a healthy world?
After her father's...
I Live Inside
Memoirs of a Babe in Toyland
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Babes in Toyland burst onto the Minneapolis music scene in the late 1980s and quickly established itself at the forefront of punk/alternative rock. The all-female trio featured a shy, seventeen-year-old Jewish teen from the suburbs on bass guitar—an instrument she had never played before joining...
The WPA Guide to South Dakota
The Federal Writers' Project Guide to 1930s South Dakota
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Rolling prairie grasslands in the east, surreal Badlands and lush Black Hills in the west: South Dakota is a state of vivid contrasts. In this classic and now-rare guide to Depression-era South Dakota, you can discover the historic byways and back roads of this beautiful state. Originally part of...
The Creator's Game
A Story of Baaga’adowe/Lacrosse
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The game of lacrosse is a gift from the Creator, given to the American Indians in the long ago. But Travis Skinaway doesn't know the full story of the game: he only knows that he struggles to catch the ball and tends to throw it over the other boys' heads. Maybe he's not built right to run the field....
by Grace Lee Nute
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
The Voyageur is the authoritative account of a unique and colorful group of men whose exploits, songs, and customs comprise an enduring legacy. French Canadians who guided and paddled the canoes of explorers and fur traders, the voyageurs were experts at traversing the treacherous rapids and dangerous...
Anishinaabe Syndicated
A View from the Rez
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The topics of the day fly fast and furious over Jim Northrup’s moccasin telegraph:
The game wardens were playing catch and release with the Anishinaabeg spearers. one Shinnob went back for seconds. He got two tickets. . . .
The powwow was great. I’d like to thank all those who worked...
The Citizen Solution
How You Can Make A Difference
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2009
Nationally known community organizer and activist Harry C. Boyte incites readers to join today's "citizen movement," offering practical tools for how we can change the face of America by focusing on issues close to home.
Targeting useful techniques for individuals to raise public...
The Crops Look Good
News from a Midwestern Family Farm
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
When Margaret Williamson left her family's rural Wisconsin farm to work in Minneapolis in 1923, her mother, Olava, wrote regularly with updates about daily activities: laundry, bread baking, plowing, planting, and harvesting the crops. Sometimes she enclosed a note from seven- year- old Helen, who...
My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks
Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation, 1900-1940
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
When Ojibwe historian Brenda Child uncovered the Bureau of Indian Affairs file on her grandparents, it was an eye-opening experience. The correspondence, full of incendiary comments on their morals and character, demonstrated the breathtakingly intrusive power of federal agents in the early twentieth...
Kitchi-Gami
Life Among the Lake Superior Ojibway
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
"Johann Kohl was an educated, urbane, and well-trained German geographer, ethnologist, and popular writer. During his visit with the Lake Superior Ojibwa in 1855, he made useful and unbiased studies of their material culture, religion, and folklore. . . . The extent of Kohl's observations is...