Rebirth of the Mendota Dakota Community
June 17th, 2011 | by eric | published in Culture and Activism, Culture and Activism, Environment and the Climate Crisis, Music with a Message, Transnational Corporations
Part documentary and part interview of Jim Anderson, the new chairperson of the Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Tribal Council. We journey deep into the history of the Twin Cities area and touch on the Mdewakanton Dakota people’s creation story, history with French traders, the Louisiana Purchase, the Treaty of 1805, the beginning of white settlement [...]