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SUMMARY:Eliza Winston's Fight for Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Eliza Winston was brought to Minnesota in 1860 as an enslaved woman. On the shores of Lake Harriet\, she fought for her freedom and escaped bondage. Join us at this site to learn more about her story through talks\, digital maps\, kids’ activities\, and an opportunity to help secure a park bench in her name. \nThis community day is part of We Want More History\, a coordinated national day of programming to strengthen civic health\, build community trust\, foster democratic dialogue\, and showcase the vital role of history in public life. The event is supported by community historian & public school teacher Jason Benjamin\, who inspired this effort to honor Eliza Winston by creating a place where people can learn her story; Hennepin History Museum\, which currently has an exhibit about Eliza Winston; Mapping Prejudice\, which used its digital mapping expertise to identify the location of her escape from this place; and history keepers in the community who will share the rich history of African Americans in Minneapolis.
URL:https://hennepinhistory.org/event/eliza-winstons-fight-for-freedom-in-the-north-star-state/
LOCATION:Lake Harriet Parkway\, Between Thomas and Sheridan Avenues South\, Minneapolis\, MN\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Conversation,Community Event,Hands-on Activity
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SUMMARY:History Panel: The Legacy of Eliza Winston
DESCRIPTION:As part of Hennepin County’s America 250 commemoration\, we explore this nation’s “unfinished revolutions\,” as we strive for freedom and equity for all. This panel will take as its starting point the history and legacy of Eliza Winston\, an enslaved woman from Mississippi who was granted her freedom in Minnesota in 1860 following a landmark court case. Expert panelists will discuss the social ramifications and reception to this case here in Minnesota and beyond\, including how the effects reverberate through to today. \nPanelists include: \nChristopher Lehman\, Chair of Ethnic Studies at St. Cloud State University and author of the books Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State and It Took Courage: Eliza Winston’s Quest for Freedom. \nBryan D. Tyner\, CEO of Phyllis Wheatley Community Center and former Minneapolis Fire Chief. \nYohuru R. Williams\, Distinguished University Chair and Professor of History\, as well as Founding Director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. \nThis panel is moderated by John Crippen\, and presented in partnership with the Hennepin History Museum of which he is the Executive Director. \nFunded by Hennepin County and MELSA (Metropolitan Library Service Agency). \n\n\n\n\n\nProgram:  America 250\nSuitable for:  Adults\nType:  Current Events\, Lectures\, Discussions\nLanguage: English\nAdditional Details:  Pohlad Hall
URL:https://hennepinhistory.org/event/history-panel-the-legacy-of-eliza-winston/
LOCATION:Minneapolis Central Library\, 300 Nicollet Mall\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55401\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Conversation,Discussion/Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260321T110000
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SUMMARY:American Indians and the American Dream: an author talk by Dr. Kasey Keeler
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, March 21\, 2026\,  for an author talk by Dr. Kasey R. Keeler on her first book\, American Indians and the American Dream:  Policies\, Place\, and Property in Minnesota\, in which she examines the long history of urbanization and suburbanization of Indian communities in Minnesota\, and through the United States.  Beginning with the dispossession of Indian land\, Dr. Keeler discusses the ways American Indian fought to maintain and acquire property rights\, past and present\, to secure home ownership and land for themselves\, their families\, and their communities. In doing so\, she looks at the programs and policies that sought to move communities away from their traditional homelands to reservations and\, later\, to urban and suburban areas. In her talk she’ll share about the ways her research has expanded into her next book project on American Indians and the Homestead Act . \nDr. Keeler’s presentation will conclude with a question/answer session with the audience. \nPublished in 2023 by the University of Minnesota Press\, American Indians and the American Dream:  Policies\, Place\, and Property in Minnesota investigates the ways American Indians accessed homeownership\, working with and against federal policy\, underscoring American Indian peoples’ unequal and exclusionary access to the way of life known as the American dream. \nDr. Kasey Keeler (Tuolumne Me-Wuk and Citizen Potawatomi) is an associate professor in the Department of Civil Society & Community Studies and the Director of the American Indian & Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin\, Madison. She was raised in Minnesota\, having grown up in Coon Rapids\, and has family in the north/west metro. She participated in the Ȟaȟá Wakpádaŋ  / Bassett Creek Oral History Project that the museum co-sponsored in the summer of 2021. For that project\, she interviewed 14 American Indian people from the West Metro whose tribal backgrounds included Dakota\, Anishinaabe\, Ho-Chunk\, Assiniboine\, Lakota\, Odowa\, Ponca\, and Zuni. Click here to listen to the oral histories. \n  \nBook Cover courtesy of University of Minnesota Press. \nPhoto of Dr. Kasey R. Keeler courtesy of Breanna Schmidt. \n 
URL:https://hennepinhistory.org/event/american-indians-and-the-american-dream-an-author-talk-by-dr-kasey-keeler/
LOCATION:Hennepin History Museum\, 2303 3rd Ave S\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Conversation,Discussion/Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251213T133000
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SUMMARY:Community Conversation about Water & Environmental Justice
DESCRIPTION:In many communities\, women hold the responsibility of being protectors of water\, and Hennepin History Museum is honored to have this community conversation led by three women who can speak to their lifelong experiences doing this important work. Inspired by our exhibit Circle of Water: Puppetry As An Agent of Change as well as our participation in an annual Water Blessing on Indigenous Peoples’ Day\, this event will help participants find their place in the evolving history of our relationship to the essential element of water.\n\n\n\nThe program leaders are: Roxanne Biidabinokwe Gould (Kitchiwikwendong Anishinaabe)\, Professor Emerita of Indigenous Education and Environmental Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth\, founder of the Indigenous Women’s Water Sisterhood\, governing council member for Makoce Ikikcupi; Nichole Subola (Standing Rock Dakota)\, a Dakota language teacher with Dakhóta Iápi Okhódakičhiye; and Sandy Spieler\, former Artistic Director of In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre\, director of the Circle of Water Circus\, and creator of the touring show “Are You Thirsty?” \nCost: Pay-as-you-can\nRegistration Recommended \n\nYou can watch this event on livestream starting at 1:30\, Saturday\, December 13. Click here to link to the livestream.  \n\n\n\n\nThe artwork shown above is part of a new mural and indigenous garden installation at the old Cedar Avenue Bridge Trailhead. The City of Bloomington partnered with Sandy Spieler and Dakota cultural educator Tara Perron (Tanáǧidaŋ Tó Wíŋ) to create a stunning four-sided mural and install a living indigenous living garden at the trailhead shelter. The mural reflects themes of home\, kinship\, water\, and healing\, drawing on Dakota culture and local voices. \n\nThis program is made possible by grants from the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization and the Minnesota Department of Health.
URL:https://hennepinhistory.org/event/community-conversation-about-water-environmental-justice/
LOCATION:Hennepin History Museum\, 2303 3rd Ave S\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20250412T140000
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SUMMARY:Building Community by Studying the Past: A Conversation with the Historian of Pioneers & Soldiers Cemetery
DESCRIPTION:This event is sold out×Join Hennepin History Museum’s Executive Director John Crippen in a conversation with Susan Hunter Weir\, president of the Board of Friends of Pioneers & Soldiers Cemetery and longtime historian of the cemetery. Hear her journey of discovery as she researches and documents the names and life stories of many of the 22\,000 persons buried in Minneapolis’ oldest cemetery. Driven by a sense of responsibility to tell the stories of the average citizens of Minneapolis\, Weir finds rich reward in shining a light on the immigrants\, African Americans\, women\, children\, pioneers\, and veterans who helped build Minneapolis. \nReservations  required. \nFree parking is available in the museum’s lot and on 3rd Ave S. \nThis program will be recorded for future posting on Hennepin History Museum’s YouTube channel. \n  \nThis presentation is the third in a series of programs to commemorate the designation of Minneapolis’s Pioneers & Soldiers Cemetery as part of the National Park Service’s Underground Railroad Network to Freedom program. It is sponsored by Hennepin History Museum\, Minnesota African American Heritage Museum and Gallery\, and Pioneers & Soldiers Cemetery. \n \n \nPhoto of Sue Hunter Weir courtesy of Timothy McCall.
URL:https://hennepinhistory.org/event/building-community-by-studying-the-past-a-conversation-with-the-historian-of-pioneers-soldiers-cemetery/
LOCATION:Hennepin History Museum\, 2303 3rd Ave S\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55404\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230914T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230914T200000
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SUMMARY:An Evening Of Real-Life Stories About Social Justice In Minneapolis
DESCRIPTION:The Minneapolis Interview Project\, in partnership with Hennepin History Museum\, will present an evening of real-life stories about social justice in Minneapolis. The Minneapolis Interview Project was started in 2016 by Anne Winkler-Morey\, a writer\, historian\, activist scholar and Southside resident. Her goal was to interview one-hundred people of different ages\, races\, genders\, economic classes\, migration experiences\, as well as living in different parts of Minneapolis.  She invited people to tell their life-stories that reveal hidden histories of inequity and the struggle for social justice in Minneapolis.  On Thursday\, September 14\, Ms. Winkler-Morey and many of the people she interviewed will read from their interview transcripts. A portion of the evening’s program will also honor those participants who have passed away since contributing their interviews. The evening will also feature photographs by Minneapolis-based artist\, photographer\, and teacher\, Eric Mueller\, who joined the project in 2019\, volunteering his expertise to photograph interviewees in locations that are important to them. \n\n\nThere will be opportunity for questions and conversation with the audience.\n\n\n\nDoors open at 5: 30 pm\, with the program beginning at 6 pm.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event is free\, but reservations are required.\n\n\n\nPainting entitled Loring Park courtesy of artist Tammy Ortegon\, one of the interview participants in the Minneapolis Interview Project.\n 
URL:https://hennepinhistory.org/event/walk-the-walk-readings-from-the-minneapolis-interview-project/
LOCATION:Capri Theater\, 2027 West Broadway\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55411\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Conversation,Discussion/Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230411T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230411T203000
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SUMMARY:Human Toll: Unfinished Business
DESCRIPTION:Throughout 2022\, visitors to the exhibit Human Toll: A Public History of 35W at Hennepin History Museum were asked to provide their perspective on the impact of freeways\, how they have experienced or learned from this history\, and what reparations might be appropriate to repair damages to individuals and community. Join in an online conversation with local historians and community advocates to reflect on these responses and continue the conversation about how a deeper understanding of this history can guide our future development.   \n  \nPanelists include Dr. Yohuru Williams\, professor of history and founding director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas; José Antonio Zayas Cabán\, advocacy director of Our Streets Minneapolis; Dr. Katrina Phillips (Red Cliff Ojibwe)\, associate professor of history at Macalester College; Dr. Ernest Lloyd\, adjunct instructor at the University of Minnesota’s Heritage Studies and Public History (HSPH) program; and Dr. Greg Donofrio\, director of HSPH. Drs. Lloyd and Donofrio\, leaders of the Human Toll exhibit development team\, will reflect on the success of the exhibit and the future of the Public History of 35W project. 
URL:https://hennepinhistory.org/event/human-toll-unfinished-business/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Community Conversation,Discussion/Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221119T110000
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SUMMARY:Southside Stories: Our North Star Journey
DESCRIPTION:Greg McMoore is a lifelong South Minneapolis resident and current board member of Hennepin History Museum. He recently completed an Arthur C. McWatt Fellowship to further explore the story of his family’s “North Star Journey.” Greg will share the story about his Wallace family ancestors: their migration from enslavement in Virginia; arrival to freedom in Hastings\, Minnesota; and then their final destination in south Minneapolis. The family’s first Minneapolis home was at 416 E 25th St\, which was destroyed by the construction of I-35W in the 1960s. This was ground zero of the negative impact to the African American community in south Minneapolis and the eventual development of  segregated communities. \nParticipants will hear a presentation about this story\, share a meal\, and engage in conversation and storytelling about family life and community in south Minneapolis. The setting will appropriately be at St. Peter’s AME church\, a bedrock institution in the community. \nGreg McMoore was interviewed recently by Freddie Bell on 89.9 KMOJ FM about this event.
URL:https://hennepinhistory.org/event/southside-stories-our-north-star-journey/
LOCATION:St. Peter’s AME Church\, 401 E 41st St\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55409\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Conversation,Discussion/Lecture,Reception/Meal
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