Archive for December, 2022
The Minneapolis American Indian Center Programs and Services Have Moved
-- Information provided by the Minneapolis American Indian Center The Minneapolis American Indian Center (MAIC) building closed on October 28, 2022, to prepare for the renovation and expansion project. Programs and services will continue to operate in temporarycommunity locations: Little Earth Neighborhood Early Learning Center (NELC), located at 2495 18th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55404, will house The Gatherings Café and the Family Services (ICWA, BrightBeginnings and the Indigenous Women’s Life Net Program).The Gatherings Cafe will continue elder lunches, and will be available for catering orders. Contact Waska McMaster at wmcmaster@maicnet.orgFamily Services, contact Laura Newton at lnewton@maicnet.org Many Rivers East, located at 1508 E Franklin Avenue Suite 100, Minneapolis, MN 55404, will house the Fitness & Nutrition (FAN), Culture, Languages & Arts Network (CLAN), Youth Services andWorkforce Innovation Opportunities Act Programs. Fitness & [...]
Unknown, Perhaps Unwanted
Twenty of the 78 unknowns are buried beneath a marker provided by the University of Minnesota. The marker was dedicated on September 9, 2012. Photo: Tim McCall Tales From Pioneers & Soldiers Cemetery 206th in a Series By SUE HUNTER WEIR There are 78 people buried in the cemetery whose last names were recorded simply as “unknown.” They might more accurately have been called “unidentified,” since it’s likely that someone, somewhere must have known them. But no one stepped forward to claim them and most, though not all, were buried at the expense of the county in the cemetery’s paupers’ section, known as Section H. Newspaper coverage of their deaths was spotty: some deaths appeared to be newsworthy, others not. In a few cases the papers printed a description of the person who had died. An unknown man who died in April 1876 was described as being “about five feet six inches in height, with a strong frame and dark complexion.” It was general enough that [...]
City Songs for Loving the Earth: Growing Darkness
Photomicrograph of Stellar Snowflake, No. 304, circa 1890. Photo: Wilson Bentley, Smithsonian Institution Archives By LINDSEY FENNER We are traveling now through the darkest time of the year. This time can be a struggle for me. Winter makes those small dear moments of being outdoors more difficult to find. Everything is colder, slipperier, darker. I’m learning I need to be more intentional in how I interact with nature during these dark months. My plan this winter: Morning measuring routines: This past spring, I started doing daily precipitation measurements for CoCoRaHS- the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network. Every morning at 7AM, I wander outside in my pajamas to see how much precipitation fell in the previous 24 hours. During this summer of drought, there was usually no rain to measure. But I found those few minutes gave me the gift of a scheduled moment every morning to notice– the rain yes, but also the early morning birdsong and the way the [...]
