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Shaynowishkung (Chief Bemidji) statue

Statue of Shaynowishkung (He Who Rattles, also called Chief Bemidji). Photograph by Peter DeCarlo, 2019. Used with the permission of Peter DeCarlo.

Shaynowishkung (Chief Bemidji) Memorial, Bemidji

On June 6, 2015, a bronze statue of Shaynowishkung (He Who Rattles, commonly known as Chief Bemidji) was erected in Library Park on the shore of Lake Bemidji. Meant to honor the Ojibwe man’s life and bring people together, the statue was the result of a six-year community-driven process.

Indigenous float at Twin Cities Pride

Organizers of an Indigenous parade float at Twin Cities Pride in Minneapolis. Photograph by Randy Stern, June 26, 2011.

Gwen Westerman – What Fort Snelling Means to Me

Gwen Westerman (Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota) describes her personal connections to Fort Snelling in different eras.

Amber Annis – What Fort Snelling Means to Me

Amber Annis (Cheyenne River Lakota) discusses the personal and historical significance of Fort Snelling and its role in the US–Dakota War of 1862.

Edna Larrabee and Beulah Brunelle

Edna Larrabee (left) and Beulah Brunelle (right) in 1948. Photograph published in the Minneapolis Star, November 22, 1948.

Escape from Shakopee State Reformatory for Women, 1949

Beulah Brunelle (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe) and Edna Larrabee escaped from Shakopee State Reformatory for Women five times between 1946 and 1949. Though most of the breakouts ended in their recapture within a few days, their fourth escape, in 1949, led to eight months of freedom and allowed the two women to live together as a couple while traveling around the United States.

Raccoon hide

Tanned raccoon hide used at the Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading post in Onamia, Minnesota. Created no earlier than 1918.

Tanned beaver pelt

Tanned beaver hide marked "HA" on the flesh side with numerous discontinuous small holes to form the letters. "HA" are probably the initials of Harry Ayer. Date unknown but before 1959. Ayer was the original proprietor of the Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading Post in Onamia, Minnesota, in which this pelt was found. The object is probably Ojibwe in origin.

Canoe

Birchbark canoe (possibly Ojibwe) created ca. 1900.

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