Pat Bellanger, ca. 1977. Photograph by Dick Bancroft; used with the permission of the estate of Dick Bancroft.

Lisa Bellanger, Pat Bellanger’s daughter, dancing at a powwow in Lac Courte Oreilles, Wisconsin, before the American Indian Movement’s takeover of Winter Dam in August of 1971. The Lac Courte Oreilles band of Ojibwe sought AIM’s help in drawing attention to the flooding damage to their land the dam had caused. Photograph by Dick Bancroft; used with the permission of the estate of Dick Bancroft.

Pat Bellanger, ca. 1977. Photograph by Dick Bancroft; used with the permission of the estate of Dick Bancroft.

Seth Eastman was a soldier and an artist stationed at Fort Snelling in the 1830s and 1840s. As MN90 producer Marisa Helms reports, Eastman’s greatest contribution to history was his accurate and un-romanticized depictions of Dakota and Ojibwe people in the area of the fort. Because Eastman took an anthropological view in his art, today’s historians can learn about Native practices and cultural artifacts from the era.

George Morrison with Ada Reed, his first wife, ca. 1950s. From "Photographs, undated, 1950s, 1970s-1990s," in box 7 of the George Morrison papers, 1854–2005 (bulk 1948-2000), Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

George Morrison wearing regalia, undated. From "Photographs: Childhood, family, Chippewa City, Grand Marais, professional, exhibits, 1905, 1920–1980s," in box 1 of the George Morrison papers, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

George Morrison with one of his paintings, 1998. From "Family photographs, 1940s, 1980s, 1998" in box 3 the George Morrison papers, Manuscripts Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Anpetu Tokeca (also known as John Other Day), a Dakota man who aided settler-colonists during the US–Dakota War of 1862.

For six weeks in 1862, war raged throughout southwestern Minnesota. There were many causes. The fighting and its aftermath changed the course of the state's history, and descendants of those touched by the war continue to live with the trauma it caused.