1. Minneapolis area history
   

1. Resources focused on an Early history of Minneapolis put together by staff of the Minneapolis public library - books, links, etc.
   

1. Coldwater Springs
   

1. Bruce White - History of Coldwater
   

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3. Susu Jeffries History of Coldwater  From the Friends of Coldwater
   

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5. Sacred Site and Traditional Cultural Property Analysis
   

6. Downloadable file - National Park Service
   

7. Bureau of Mines Twin Cities Research Center, Main Campus, Hennepin County, MN     October 4, 2006
   

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9. Bruce White piece on the Park Service, Dakota people, and Camp Coldwater
   

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11. Nick Coleman Column
    

1. Fort Snelling
   

1. Take Down the Fort - Dakota led movement
   

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3. Fort Snelling; Contentious Ground - Workshop Resources
   

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5. Historic Fort Snelling - Minnesota Historical Society official site page
   

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7. Fort Snelling State Park - National Park Service site
   

1. Minnehaha Falls and Creek
   

    Minnehahacreek.org

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2. Minnesota River
   

     From Minnesota Public Radio

     The Dakota War

1. Mississippi River
   

1. Timeline
   

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3. River Facts
   

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5. Old Maps
   

1. View some historic maps on this page
   

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3. Pike Island
   

    Pike Treaty article download   

    Minnesota Public Radio feature

     Minnesota Almanac Book of Days

  

1. St. Anthony Falls
   

   History of the St. Anthony Falls Industrial District

1. Archeology of the Minnesota Riverfront, article from the Minnesota Archeologist, available online
   

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For Teachers

1. Describing Students' Collected Works: Understanding American Indian Children
   

    Resources on the Minnesota Humanities website

   Website of wide ranging resources for by and about Indigenous people.

    This page is for teaching/learning about indigenous North Americans

    Uintah Basin Teaching American History Project web site

    Paper on The Indian Education Act of 1972

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2. Urban American Indian Fact Sheet from the National Urban Indian Family  Coalition
   

1. In a Good Way: American Indian Studies in the Classroom
   

2. An essay guide for teachers written by Dr. Greg Gagnon and distributed
   

3. at the 2006 Teacher Institute seminars Dakota History and Culture and
   

4. Ojibwe History and Culture
   

1. Choosing Good Books: Guidelines and Commentary on Assessing Indians in
   

2. Children's Literature
   

3. A guide written by Dr. Greg Gagnon and distributed at the 2006 Teacher
   

4. Institute workshop Choosing Appropriate American Indian Literature.
   

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7. ANNOUNCEMENT RECEIVED NOVEMBER 27th! The U.S. Department of Education's Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative, in collaboration with Office of Indian Education, is proud to announce the launch of the Digital Teacher Workshops for Teachers of Native American youstudents. The workshops are designed to provide professional development
   

8. opportunities for teachers of American Indians and Alaska Natives in all
   

9. grade levels and content areas. The workshops support mastery of
   

10. academic content and application by modeling strong teaching methods
    

11. that have been successful in the classroom and providing a classroom
    

12. application component, and additional resources.
    

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14. These workshops are available FREE on the Internet at
    

15. www.t2tweb.us/nativeamerican. Our first workshops focus on literature,
    

16. community outreach, and reading.
    

Curricular guide

1. Learning From the Dakota
   

2. This guide for a Fifth Grade Social Studies Unit is based on the book Painting the Dakota: Seth Eastman at Fort Snelling, published by Afton Historical Society Press. The unit can be used as a two week unit, but resources and activities are provided to expand the unit. Teachers are encouraged to use this guide not as a fixed script, but rather as a foundation from which to build.
   

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Dakota Language Resources

1. University of Minnesota Dakota dictionary online (Dakota font as used in this site available)
   

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3. Dakota Language Homepage
   

Dakota Treaties

1. Summary article (as a web page)  of the consequences of Dakota treaties
   

2. One page piece on Pike’s Treaty of 1805
   

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4. General Resources for learning about Native people
   

  (Share more resources  by email.)

1. American Indian Policy Center
   

2. Cradleboard Project
   

3. Oyate.org
   

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5. Resources from H-Amind
   

6. Reports from the American Indian Family Project
   

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8. UN Convention on Genocide, 1948
   

1. UN Convention on Genocide 1948
   

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3. Check back for a growing list of resources.