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The National Park Service’s Mississippi River Forum: Meals with Great Minds

Open Rivers, 2016
Imagine sharing conversation, learning, and ideas with politicians, researchers studying bald eagles and river otters, people who make your water drinkable and those who clean your used water (who are different people, at least for now…), and those ...
Lark Weller
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On Madweyaashkaa: Waves Can Be Heard with Moira Villiard

Open Rivers, 2021
In February 2021, artist Moira Villiard debuted her installation, Madweyaashkaa: Waves Can Be Heard as the fourth installment of the Illuminate the Lock series at the closed Upper St. Anthony Lock and Dam in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Moira Villiard and Laurie Moberg
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Toward a Pedagogy of Place: the Bdote field trip and absent narratives in the classroom

Open Rivers, 2016
At the Minnesota Humanities Center, we have long sought to empower educators to create lessons that recognize and amplify absent narratives, the stories that have been systematically marginalized or left out in classrooms and curricula for generations.
Kirk MacKinnon Morrow
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Depicting the Power of Water in Art and Poetry

Open Rivers, 2016
Open Rivers guest editors Nenette Luarca-Shoaf and Laura Turner Igoe contacted Gwen Westerman, professor, visual artist, and an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Oyate.
Gwen Westerman, Nenette Luarca-Shoaf, Laura Turner Igoe
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Community-Engagement and Loss

Open Rivers, 2017
In the twenty years I have worked for the University of Minnesota, I have had many opportunities to be involved in partnerships with community organizations.
Sara Axtell
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The rise of anti-vaccination legislation in two Midwestern US states: Implications for politics, policy, and society

Open Health, 2023
During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, vaccination became a contested issue between politicians at both national and state levels as well as among the public, which became increasingly polarized over this matter.
Viskupič Filip, Liebl Zachary, Wiltse David L.   +2 more
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Lost to Progress: Upper Mississippi River and Minneapolis Parks Development

Open Rivers, 2017
In February 1872, Horace W. Cleveland trudged through the snowy streets of Minneapolis to the Pence Opera House. His goal was to deliver a speech convincing the city planners, wealthy landowners, and businessmen to work quickly on protecting and ...
Anna Bierbrauer
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Hiawatha Valley Farm Cooperative and Its Enduring Impact on Hmong in Minnesota by Chia Youyee Vang and Mao Justice Vang [PDF]

Hmong Studies Journal
In this historical article, the authors explore the Hiawatha Valley Farm Cooperative and its significance in Hmong history in Minnesota. The cooperative was the first organized effort to promote economic self-sufficiency through agricultural ...
Chia Youyee Vang, Mao Justice Vang
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An Outsider’s Perspective: Influence of Hmong Minnesotan Community On My Journey [PDF]

Hmong Studies Journal
In this article, the author provides a first-hand account of the significance and meaning of the Hmong Minnesotan community for his lifelong experiences and identity as a Hmong American.
Pao Lor
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Suburbanization and the Persistence of High Racial Segregation: Hmong and Other Southeast Asian Americans in the Twin Cities Metro Area from 1990 to 2020 [PDF]

Hmong Studies Journal
This paper uses recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau to examine the suburbanization and extent of residential segregation among Southeast Asian Americans, including Hmong, Lao, Cambodians, and Vietnamese.
Yang Sao Xiong, Mark Pfeifer
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