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.

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.

Prince and Nancy Honeycutt inside their home with their granddaughters, Princelleyn and Luverne, ca. 1915. Used with the permission of Otter Tail County Historical Society.

Sophia Gardner (Prince Honeycutt’s mother), undated. Used with the permission of Otter Tail County Society.

Dorsey Willis (right) and Olive Willis, December 1972. Photograph by John Croft for the Minneapolis Tribune. From box 317 of the Minneapolis and St. Paul newspaper negatives collection, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul.

Gratia Countryman became the director of the Minneapolis library system in 1904. Hear what she has to say about her work in this video.

Eva McDonald Valesh was a journalist and labor rights activist in late 1880s Minneapolis. Hear what she has to say about her work in this video.

Leather boots worn by Maria Scholucha at St. Michael’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Minneapolis, ca. 1910–1919.

Lintonite samples. Images used courtesy of the History Center of Olmsted County, Rochester.