Powwow at Red Lake Reservation, 1949.

Powwow at Red Lake Reservation

Powwow at Red Lake Reservation. Photograph by Monroe P. Killy, July 4, 1949.

Children at Lower Sioux Indian Community, Minnesota, 1940

Children at Lower Sioux Indian Community

Children at Lower Sioux Indian Community, ca. 1940.

Ojibwe boys at Mille Lacs Indian Reservation

Ojibwe boys at Mille Lacs Indian Reservation

Ojibwe boys at Mille Lacs Indian Reservation, ca. 1930.

Ojibwe boys at Mille Lacs Indian Reservation

Ojibwe boys at Mille Lacs Indian Reservation

Ojibwe boys at Mille Lacs Indian Reservation, ca. 1930.

Nathan Whitefeather and family

Nathan Whitefeather and family

Nathan Whitefeather and family (Red Lake Ojibwe), ca. 1934. Box 62, Ruth Landes Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian.

A house on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, 1934

A house on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, 1934

A house on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, 1934. Box 62, Ruth Landes Papers, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian.

Indian Reorganization Act in Minnesota

In 1934, the US Bureau of Indian Affairs set up a new organizational model to transform Native American tribal governments. The articulation of that model, the Indian Reorganization Act, influenced the governance systems of Native people, including Minnesota’s Ojibwe and Dakota. They now work to customize the government forms imposed upon them.

This Day in Minnesota History

October 10, 2016

Governor Mark Dayton issues a proclamation declaring this date to be the first state-wide Indigenous Peoples' Day, celebrated in place of Columbus Day. Grand Rapids, Minneapolis, and Minnesota State University, Mankato, had adopted the holiday in 2014.

Maggie Sengoge and Porky White making maple sugar

Maggie Sengoge and Porky White tapping a tree for maple sap

Maggie Sengoge and Porky White drill into a tree in order to collect maple sap as part of the Heart of the Earth Survival School. Photograph by Randy Croce, 1984.

Maddy Moose making maple sugar at the Heart of the Earth Survival School

Maddy Moose making maple sugar at the Heart of the Earth Survival School

Maddy Moose making maple sugar at the Heart of the Earth Survival School (of Minneapolis) sugar bush camp, Maple Plain. Photograph by Randy Croce, 1984.

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