The Dakota and Ojibwe shaped this land for thousands of years. Statehood arrived in 1858. The Dakota War of 1862 ended with the largest mass execution in American history — thirty-eight Dakota men hanged on Lincoln’s order. The Iron Range built the steel that won two wars. The Mississippi begins as a stream at Lake Itasca you can step across. The Mayo Clinic opened in Rochester. Bob Dylan and Prince came from here. Eleven thousand eight hundred and forty-two lakes.
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The Dakota and Ojibwe nations shaped this land for thousands of years before Europeans arrived — building trade networks, agricultural systems, and political structures sophisticated enough that early French explorers had no framework for understanding what they were seeing. The name Minnesota comes from the Dakota words for “sky-tinted water.” The land named itself before anyone else arrived to rename it.
Statehood came in 1858, and the Civil War came four years later. Minnesota sent more men per capita than any other state. Then came the Dakota War of 1862 — the largest mass execution in American history followed, and the forced removal of the Dakota people from their homeland. The grief of that year is still present in the state’s silences.
The iron ranges of the north built the industrial Midwest — the ore that made the steel that built the ships that won two wars. Scandinavian and Finnish immigrants worked the mines and logged the forests and farmed the cutover and built the union halls. The Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party was born here. So was the idea, radical in its moment, that a working person’s life was worth protecting by law.
Father Louis Hennepin reaches the Falls of St. Anthony — the future site of Minneapolis — and names them. The Dakota had a name for them already.
Minnesota becomes the 32nd state on May 11th. Saint Paul, the former fur-trading outpost of Pig’s Eye Landing, becomes the capital.
The first iron ore shipment leaves the Soudan Mine on the Iron Range. Within two decades, Minnesota produces the majority of the nation’s iron ore.
J.P. Morgan buys out Carnegie and creates US Steel, consolidating control of the Iron Range mines. The company town era begins, and so does the labor resistance.
The Democratic and Farmer-Labor parties merge into the DFL — producing Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, and a progressive tradition unmatched in the Midwest.
Real Minnesota people who have placed their names — and their stories — into the hex grid. Each square mile, a chapter.
My grandparents bought a small cabin in Minnesota long before any of us understood how much it would mean. Summers by the lake, cold morning...
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Eighty-seven counties from the Iron Range to the cornfields, from Lake Itasca where the Mississippi begins as a step across to the Boundary Waters that touch Canada. The state that gave America Dylan and Prince, the Mayo Clinic, and eleven thousand eight hundred and forty-two lakes. Source your river.
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