Minnesota: A History of the Land, Episode 1

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  @sunkist3575 · 2 years ago

  My Great-Grandfather arrived in St. Paul around 1880. He had been in the Black Hills for the gold rush. He lost an eye working the gold streams. Someone told him there was a Doctor in St. Paul that could fit him with a glass eye that looked like the real thing so he could be rid of the patch he was wearing. He got on his horse and headed east. He found the doctor in a log building at the river's edge. He also found a pretty little redheaded Irish nurse who became my great-grandmother. He never left Minnesota again and lived to be 99 years old. I'm 73 and was born in St. Paul and still live in Minnesota.

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• JF

  @jfu5222 · 4 years ago

  In the 1980's I was in the US Army in Bavaria. Sometimes in the mixed forest of southern Germany I would lose myself and forget that I wasn't in the woods of northern Minnesota.

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• TI

  @tillweber5688 · 4 years ago

  I just want to tell you that this remarkable documentation is watched in Germany as well. I feel deep in me a close connection the the old US and its history, even if it is, or was, very sad in many cases. Warm greetings from Black Forest Germany :-)

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• LJ

  @lj9524 · 3 years ago

  My family came to Minnesota from Norway and  Denmark . They made a good life for themselves in both southern Minnesota and northern Minnesota on the Canadian border. My mother recalls coming home and finding a lumberjack in their house or  Ojibway  native by the Rainey River.  No one locked their doors back then of course. My family accepted indigenous people as their neighbors. It is very sad what the US government did to the first peoples of North America.

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• JE

  @jenbuckley1958 · 2 months ago

  I'm watching this in the summer of 2026. I wish this documentary was as popular as any main stream show. Everyone should have an understanding of this history, these ways of living with the Earth. I'd like to say we're learning, or remembering. It doesn't feel like we're getting it still. So grateful to have discovered this film.

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  @pattyharris597 · 2 months ago

  Thankyou so very much for sharing this beautiful video.. I was born in Minnesota and miss it so very much

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  @KyleThill · 5 years ago

  Thank you for making this available to all of us.

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• RI

  @rickwarner4102 · 5 years ago

  ...l am a proud anishinaabe from the Leech Lake Reservation and wish i could have seen it as it was when my people were the only ones living here in the middle of nothing but beautiful wild...

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• JO

  @johnthompson9513 · 5 years ago

  In the past 60 yrs I've witnessed more change than I care for Not all of it for the better in my opinion

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• KN

  @knifeprty08 · 1 year ago

  As a Metis descendant, it was very cool to see the part about them as it was never mentioned when I was in school. Fur trade in general, but not the Metis. My 5th great-grandfather is buried in the Metis cemetery at Pembina and my family lived in MB/ND/MN triangular area for generations.

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  @5872550 · 3 years ago

  I live in Minnesota so I had to watch it.

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  @L2FlyMN · 1 year ago

  Much of Minnesota was white pine forests, my ancestors partially responsible for mowing it down, under the belief it was endless & a good way to support their growing families with the great need for building materials.

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