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The moral arc of Indian agent Lawrence Taliaferro

The moral arc of Indian agent Lawrence Taliaferro

Minnesota Lawyer — U.S. Indian agent Lawrence Taliaferro, a bureaucrat who played a crucial role in the seizure of Native American land in the Upper Mississippi Valley in the 1830s, came to deplore the “rascality and frauds permitted by the treaty making power generally.”
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Home in the woods: Eliza Wheeler's family saga

Home in the woods: Eliza Wheeler's family saga

Southwest Journal — Marvel, her seven siblings and her widowed mother survived the Depression largely on their own initiative — hunting for rabbit and squirrel, fishing for trout, pulling carrots and canning about 40 quarts of blueberries per year. Two generations later, Marvel's granddaughter Eliza Wheeler tells this story in an illustrated children's book.
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Crack it. Buy it. Tear it down.

Crack it. Buy it. Tear it down.

Southwest Journal — Lowry Hill East neighbors mobilized to try to save what was once a 25-unit affordable apartment from demolition, but despite the current owner having played a role in damaging the building, city officials said there was little to be done to stop it.
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Training aims to make Minneapolis cops more compassionate

Training aims to make Minneapolis cops more compassionate

Southwest Journal — A look at the mindfulness program for Minneapolis Police Department officers led by Cindi Claypatch, a counselor and energy healer who had lectured at the same alternative spiritual community as Justine Ruszczyk Damond, a Linden Hills woman who was wrongfully shot and killed by a Minneapolis police officer.
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Kayne Davis, 13, helps curate Mia photography show

Kayne Davis, 13, helps curate Mia photography show

Southwest Journal — Thirteen-year-old Kayne Davis lives in Whittier, just a couple blocks from the Minneapolis Institute of Art, but until October he'd never set foot inside the building. Now, a photography exhibition he helped to curate is on display at the museum.
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Kingfield pastor rallies evangelicals to vote against Trump

Kingfield pastor rallies evangelicals to vote against Trump

Southwest Journal — Doug Pagitt stepped down as pastor of Solomon’s Porch — the Kingfield church he founded two decades ago — and set off on a planned 10-month-long road trip aboard a bright orange tour bus previously used by Guns N’ Roses and “Weird Al” Yankovic. The goal: to motivate politically progressive and moderate Christians to vote against President Donald Trump.
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Bryce Tache's anti-Trump message has brought him massive Twitter following

Bryce Tache's anti-Trump message has brought him massive Twitter following

Southwest Journal — He still works a 9-to-5 job in human resources, he hasn’t made a penny and his kids say they don’t really care, but Bryce Tache's forceful, declarative sentences about the president of the United States are broadcast to more than 180,000 followers.
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Ignatius Donnelly: Paranoid progressive in the Gilded Age

Ignatius Donnelly: Paranoid progressive in the Gilded Age

Minnesota Lawyer — Perhaps the strangest politician of the 19th century, Ignatius Donnelly founded a city on the bank of the Mississippi, ignited the modern Atlantis craze and believed civilization was on the verge of apocalypse. Donnelly also happened to be one of the greatest progressive voices of the Gilded Age.
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