Fort Snelling at Bdote: A Brief History environment hijacking legalese to resist this

hijacking legalese to resist this ongoing colonization

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can Native peoples be understood as dynamic and changing while also not assuming that they belong to a present inherently shared with non-natives

One of the most revered novelists of our time—a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life—Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling

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Fort Snelling at Bdote: A Brief History environment hijacking legalese to resist thisFor millennia, the place where the Minnesota River joins the Mississippi has been a crossroads, a place of strategic power. In the 1820s, the newly arriving U. S. troops built Fort Snelling on the bluff above the rivers. That limestone fortress has stood for almost two hundred years as both an actor and a symbol in Minnesota's history. But that symbolism is complicated. The fort is a powerful reminder that most Minnesotans today are descendants of