Family members of Jean-Baptiste and Pelagie Faribault, ca. 1850. Pictured are their son Alexander (standing at left); their grandson George (seated at left); and George’s bride, Euphrasine St. Antoine (seated at center). Jean-Baptiste is seated on the far right. Father Augustin Ravoux stands between Jean-Baptiste and Euphrasine.

A cradleboard ornament made of hide decorated with dyed porcupine quills, created by a Dakota woman between 1775 and 1850. Pelagie Faribault would have made quillwork ornaments in a similar style.

Oil-on-canvas painting depicting a Dakota family using a horse-drawn travois (an animal skin stretched between two poles) to haul their possessions. Painted in 1869 by Seth Eastman. From the art collection of the US House of Representatives; used with permission.

AIM—the American Indian Movement—began in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 28, 1968. It took form when 200 Native people turned out for a meeting called by a group of community activists led by George Mitchell, Dennis Banks, and Clyde Bellecourt. In this video, Bellecourt talks about about the movement and its growth over the past fifty years.

Much of the still photography in this piece was taken by Dick Bancroft, author of We Are Still Here: A Photographic History of the American Indian Movement (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2013). The remaining images are courtesy of the American Indian Movement Interpretive Center.

Ojibwe people have made maple sugar for centuries and they continue to make it today. Watch how it's done in this video, shot in 2011. It takes about thirty-five gallons of sap to produce just one gallon of maple syrup. From there, the syrup can be boiled down further to get about seven pounds of sugar from one gallon of maple syrup.

Manoomin or psin (wild rice in Ojibwe and Dakota) is an important traditional food for many Indigenous peoples of the region and has been for millennia. Join Pat and Gage Kruse (Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa) as they go ricing and share harvesting techniques and other information related to wild rice.

Ruth Myers, ca. 1987. From the newsletter of the Minnesota Library Association (October 1987), page 1.

Beadwork artist Holly Young shares her experiences as a Native American Artist-in-Residence (NAAIR) at the Minnesota Historical Society. NAAIR artists study collections items to better understand their respective art forms and then share their knowledge with the community.

To Dakota people, many places in Minnesota are sacred. Our origin stories root us in these places. They teach us how to live with this land and to be good relatives.