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Chia Neng Vue, one of the 15 Hmong Minnesotans facing deportation to Laos, was arrested at his Coon Rapids home a week after his yearly check-in at immigration court.
Although the Dred and Harriet Scott are the most well-known slaves to have resided at Fort Snelling, they were far from the only ones. Slavery was a fact of life at the fort for many years.
Fort Snelling building 18 is the historic cavalry barracks, a building the Minnesota Historical Society plans to restore. (Photo by Brady Willette, courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society) ...
Historic Fort Snelling is very important to me – it is very important to a great many people, for a multitude of reasons. Let’s stand together to agree that it must be revitalized. ...
The labor pool at Fort Snelling in the 1820s and 1830s was small. Women servants were either the wives of enlisted men or the women who had fled the Selkirk settlement near modern Winnipeg and ...
While Flags for Fort Snelling was able to return to the cemetery this year, they still had to follow some precautions due to the pandemic. Malmstedt said they typically have about 8,000 volunteers ...
Each year, they have gathered at Fort Snelling Cemetery to adorn headstones with nearly 200,000 Flags for Memorial Day. The heartfelt tradition was brought back just 10 year ago with a modest ...
The Fort Snelling stop is McGill's first visit to Minnesota for the Slave Dwelling Project. He started sleeping in slave quarters and educating people about them because they were often ...
Fort Snelling sits at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, which the Dakota people called "Bdote." But visitor signs at the fort using the word "Bdote" have some lawmakers upset.
Every now and then, a treasure would come out of the earth at Fort Snelling that stopped the archaeologists in their tracks. This one, lost long ago in the grass near the old barracks, resurfaced ...
Fort Snelling State Park has reopened after being closed for weeks due to flooding 02:08. ST. PAUL, Minn. — Warmer weather and clear skies made way for Fort Snelling State Park to reopen on ...