Archive for February, 2026
Community Safety Alert Issued Regarding Out-of-State “Treatment” Transfers
By THE MINNESOTA INDIAN WOMEN’S RESOURCE CENTER The Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center (MIWRC) and local community leaders and advocates are issuing a public safety alert to ensure the safety of our relatives—both unsheltered and sheltered—amid growing concerns of outside entities targeting vulnerable individuals with false promises of out-of-state substance use treatment. “This is a public safety issue. It’s time the normalization of violence against one another comes to an end,” Over the past several months, we have been made aware of multiple reports indicating that our unsheltered relatives who are in active addiction have been targeted, approached, and recruited by outside sources claiming they can transport them to treatment-filled facilities outside of Minnesota. While the exact number of individuals taken out of state is currently unknown, the pattern is alarming and requires immediate public awareness. Native Americans make up a small [...]
Phillips Voices: Derrick Herod
from the series Phillips Oral History Project... Derrick Herod at Franklin Library. SOURCE: Phillips Oral History Project Partners The Phillips Community Oral History Project aims to document, amplify, and empower the multicultural and multi-generational voices of those in the Phillips Community to tell their own stories on their own terms. This month, the alley will begin featuring voices from the Project in our monthly papers. To start, we are sharing excerpts from an interview with community member Derrick Herod, who was interviewed at Franklin Library. Okay so could you just introduce yourself, your name, and your age if you want? Derrick: My name is Derrick. They call me black. I’m 45. Perfect. And what’s your relationship to this library or the area? The community? D: I was uh, I ain’t got no relationship with this building but I come here often to charge my phone up or just get out and get away from the riff-raff outside.Totally, totally. D: I’ve [...]
The Hodsdons’ Family Secrets
from the series Tales from Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery... 243rd in a Series The Hodsdon-Wardwell marker. It is not known exactly when this marker was placed, but most likely it was some time in the 1970s or 80s. SOURCE: TIM MCCALL By SUE HUNTER WEIR Jane and Ebenezer Hodsdon were among the early New Englanders who settled in what was to become Minneapolis. They moved here with their three young children from Maine in 1852, and a few years later purchased 100 acres of land at what is now the intersection of Bloomington Avenue and Lake Street. Their nearest neighbors were Martin and Elizabeth Layman, the original owners of the Cemetery.Beatrice Morosco, the Hodsdon’s granddaughter, wrote a family history, The Restless Ones, that was published in 1965. It is a charming and lively, though not always accurate, account of the family’s early days in Minneapolis. In 1855, a few years after the Hodsdons arrived, they were joined by Jane’s parents, George and [...]
