“Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations” is a new traveling exhibition that will explore the Native nations in Minnesota and their history of treaty making with the United States. The exhibit will remain on display in Red Wing until July 6. Three additional programs are scheduled.
The first program will be held on June 12 at 7 PM with Fred Johnson, “Negotiating with the Mdewakanton.” A retired educator, Johnson is a former Red Wing resident and the author of several books on local history.
Dr. Clifford Canku will do a program on “Letters from the Fort Snelling Internment Camp” on June 16 at 7 PM. Canku, an assistant professor in the Dakota Studies program at North Dakota State University, is leading a team of people translating letters written by Native American prisoners of war during the 1862 Dakota Conflict into English for publication.
A collaboration of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council, the Minnesota Humanities Center and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, this project is funded in part with money from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund that was created with a vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008 and The Patrick and Aimee Butler Family Foundation.
