Weaving History: A Celebration of Minnesota Unraveled Storytellers

Weaving History: A Celebration of Minnesota Unraveled Storytellers

Join us for a free, family-friendly evening of food, live music, and community curated activities in celebration of the powerful voices behind the Minnesota Unraveled podcast, including host Dr. Chantel Rodríguez and guests from Seasons 1 and 2.

Attendees will also have an opportunity to view the "soulforce: the movements of memory" exhibition curated by producer, director, writer, and editor, James Curry, featured on podcast episode 110.

Catering for this event will be provided by BIPOC Foodways Alliance, a nonprofit organization that creates unity using food as a tool and their Immigrant Kitchen program, which provides a platform for women of color, immigrant communities, and elders to tell their cultural legacy stories through the lens of home cooking.

To request an accommodation or for inquiries about accessibility, please contact engagement@mnhs.org. For more information, visit our Mill City Museum Accessibility webpage.

Event Schedule:

6-7 pm: Open House, exhibit viewing, activities, social hour

Activity Options:

Live Food Demonstration with BIPOC Foodways Alliance

Loop Earrings/Necklace with Brook LaFloe: Brook LaFloe is a beadwork artist from Turtle Mountains & is the co-founder & CEO of Niniijaanis One of Ones. For this activity option, participants will be taught how to design & string beads into a beautiful loop necklace, earrings or both. Perfect workshop for beginner beaders, that can also build skills for advanced beaders by adding multiple loops (see red example). Workshop includes all materials. If uncompleted, bead bags “to-go” can be furnished for participants to complete on their own time & take their projects home. Ideally, participants take home a beautiful, finished product. Recommended for ages 5+ with adult support or 10+ independently. 

Hands-on Bison Information Table with Ferin Davis Anderson: Ferin Davis Anderson is an environmental scientist, author, and an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa/Ojibwe/Anishinaabe/Mitchifs in North Dakota. She works as the Supervisor of Environmental Sciences for the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s Land and Natural Resources Department where she is responsible for stewarding and restoring natural areas for the SMSC. For this activity option, attendees can learn about bison history, restoration, and environmental and cultural value of bison through hands-on interactions with hides, horns, sinew, tools, and bison dung provided by the InterTribal Buffalo Council.  Bison coloring books featuring the Dakota language and coloring materials will also be available.  

6:50 pm: Exhibit introductory remarks from podcast guest, James Curry
7 pm: Live Bomba performance by Tearra Oso
7:15 pm: Opening remarks from podcast host, Dr. Chantel Rodríguez, storytelling & community meal with Immigrant Kitchen, a program of BIPOC Foodways Alliance
8-8:30 pm: Podcast listening party & social time

About the podcast
Minnesota history is a rich tapestry, weaving together the diverse experiences, cultures, and events that tell the story of our state. It’s a story that affects—and includes—all of us.

Minnesota Unraveled, a podcast by the Minnesota Historical Society, pulls on the threads of the past to reveal new perspectives and expand our knowledge of the history we share. Host Dr. Chantel Rodríguez and her guests invite listeners to think like historians and recognize that learning about other people’s lives in the past can be a powerful way to reveal our place in the present.