MNopedia articles related to MN250 themes
Moments in Minnesota history in which people resisted authority, claimed liberty, protested misrule, established self-governance, or in some way declared their independence.
- Minnesota Constitutional Convention, 1857 (St. Paul)
- Eliza Winston sues for her freedom, 1860 (Minneapolis)
- US–Dakota War of 1862
- American Woman Suffrage Association Convention, 1885 (Minneapolis)
- Red Lake Nation of Ojibwe rejects most of the Indian Reorganization Act, 1934 (Beltrami County)
- People’s Pilgrimage, 1937 (St. Paul)
- National Farmers Union holding actions, 1950s–1960s (various rural counties)
- Civil Unrest on Plymouth Avenue, 1967 (Minneapolis)
- American Indian Movement organizes, 1968 (Minneapolis)
- Morrill Hall Takeover, University of Minnesota, 1969 (Minneapolis)
- Brown Berets form St. Paul chapter, 1969 (St. Paul)
- Draft resistance by the Minnesota Eight, 1970 (Little Falls, Alexandria, Winona, Wabasha)
- Opening of the Heart of the Earth Survival School, 1972 (Twin Cities)
- Pat Bellanger helps create Women of All Red Nations (1974)
- Demonstrations against power-line installations, 1970s (Pope and Grant Counties)
- Willmar Eight Bank Strike, 1977–1979 (Willmar)
- Lois Jenson files suit against Eveleth Taconite Company (St. Louis County)
- Up And Out of Poverty Now occupations, 1990–1991 (Minneapolis)
- Mee Moua campaigns for the Minnesota Senate, 2001 (St. Paul)
- Tearing down the Christopher Columbus Memorial, 2020 (St. Paul)
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Iconic People, Places, and Things in Minnesota History
- Minnesota State Flag
- Common loon
- Walleye
- Honeycrisp apple
- Prince
- Split Rock Lighthouse
- Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
- Iron Ranges (Vermilion, Mesabi, and Cuyuna)
- Wild Rice and the Ojibwe
- Dakota Beadwork
- Mondale, Walter (1928–2021)
- Miracle on Ice
- Wheaties
- SPAM
- Grand Portage (Gichi Onigamiing)
- Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox statues, Bemidji
- Betty Crocker
- Fort Snelling
- Lindbergh, Charles A. (1902–1974)
- Halloween Blizzard, 1991
- 3M (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company)
- American Indian Movement
- Jeffers Petroglyphs
- Prairie Home Companion
- Northfield Bank Raid
- “Grace” (Minnesota state photograph)
- Hill, James J. (1838–1916)
- Dred and Harriet Scott in Minnesota
- First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment
- Minnesota State Fair
- Grasshopper Plagues, 1873–1877
- Mayo Clinic
- Glensheen Historic Estate
- Fridley Tornado, 1965
- Dayton’s
- Highway 61
- Kensington Runestone