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Friday December 19th 2025
Reparation for 350 in “Potter”'s Field” Sept 9th 1:30 PM
A simple tombstone of austere black granite at the extreme northeast corner of Pioneers and Soldiers Cemetery marks the “Potter”'s Field” resting place of 350 people. This marker of reparation cannot identify and give proper acknowledgement of each life, but it does bear witness that a large institution can acknowledge and begin to repair a previous injustice delivered by those in decision-making roles at that time.
On September 9, 2012, there will be a dedication and remembrance ceremony for 350 people whose deaths passed more or less unnoticed in the early part of the 20th century. They are buried together at the bottom of the hill in the Potters Field at Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery. As Francis Phelan, protagonist of William Kennedy”'s Ironweed, viewed it, they are neighbors, situated in this particular place since some time between 1914 and 1916. They are the people whose remains were the subject of study at the University”'s anatomy program during those years. The contributions that they made to medical research will be acknowledged when a black granite marker, a gift from the University of Minnesota, is dedicated to their memory on Sunday, September 9th.
Who are the people being honored? One hundred of them are infants who were stillborn or who died shortly after birth in one of the city”'s charity hospitals.… Read the rest “Reparation for 350 in “Potter”'s Field” Sept 9th 1:30 PM”
A Running Wolf View So Proud”¦an Amazing Feeling
By Tanya Boyd
Hi,
My name is Tanya Boyd. I”'m from Mille Lacs band of Ojibwa. I”'m an intern at Running Wolf Fitness Center. I just wanted to share a little about my experience working at Running Wolf Fitness Center, before I”'m done working here.
I have been working here for 6 months now and I really like it. I never thought that I would get a job! One day I realized I couldn”'t depend on anyone but myself to take care of me and my son. So I was determined to find a job! But how and where would I start? I never had a job and I”'m in my mid twenties! Then one day I went to Mille Lacs Work Force Center to see if they could help me find a job, I met with the job developer Sandra. She told me about a program they have called flex labor where they help you find a job to learn skills.
Then she went on to tell me about Running Wolf Fitness Center and how they needed some one to come and help out as soon as possible. So I decided to go interview with the manager, Connie Norman. I was very nervous and didn”'t know what to say.… Read the rest “A Running Wolf View So Proud”¦an Amazing Feeling”
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