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Cambodian American Community Partnership

Cambodian American Community PartnershipCelebrate the culture, history, and identity of Minnesota’s Cambodian community. Over the last several years, the Minnesota Humanities Center has partnered with the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans to amplify and celebrate the communities the Council represents. This year our collaboration focuses on supporting the Cambodian… Read More

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Examining Military Service From the Margins

Examining Military Service From the Margins Despite discrimination and frequent erasure, marginalized groups have continued to serve our country into the present. Examining Military Service From the Margins will bring together Veterans and civilians from Minnesota and beyond to examine the experiences of female, Black, American Indian, LGBT, and… Read More

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Critical Conversations

2023 Wakpa Triennial Art Festival: Critical ConversationsHow do we recognize and build our “networks of mutuality?” As part of the innovative experiences that will take place during the Wakpa Triennial, the Minnesota Humanities Center is partnering with Public Art Saint Paul to host a series of Critical Conversations. This series… Read More

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Minnesota’s Poet Laureate

Minnesota Poet’s LaureatePoetry Sparks Appointed in 2021, Gwen Nell Westerman is Minnesota’s current Poet Laureate. An enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota Oyate Nation, and citizen of the Cherokee Nation, Gwen is the first Native poet to hold the role of Laureate for Minnesota. She teaches English and… Read More

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Many Fronts

Many FrontsVeterans’ and Community Voices Many Fronts: Veterans’ and Community Voices supports Humanities programming that explores the human impact of war and conflict, its historical, social, and political underpinnings, and the voices and narratives that help us to increase our understanding about one another and war. The initiativeaims to provide… Read More

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Black Vision Trust

Black Vision Trust“…I am strong enough to carry him. He ain’t heavy, he’s my Brother.” Professional Development Public Programs Partnerships Grants Books and Videos On December 19, a gathering of over twenty community leaders… Read More

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Minnesota Equity & Justice Project

Minnesota Equity & Justice Project Generations of scholars have argued that America will never be whole until reparations are provided for the moral debt created by slavery, Jim Crow laws, and the vestiges of the caste system it created. The international cry for justice after the murder of Mr. Read More

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How Can We Breathe

How Can We BreatheAmplifying African American Voices No healthy democracy can exist when so many of its people are routinely and systematically oppressed. How Can We Breathe was a community engagement initiative where we could come together to make meaning of the Minnesota we’re living in right now – the aftermath of… Read More

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Why Treaties Matter

Why Treaties MatterSelf-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations Professional Development Public Programs Partnerships Grants Books and Videos About Why Treaties Matter “Why Treaties Matter: Self-Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations” is a nationally recognized,… Read More

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Learning from Place: Bdote

Learning from Place: BdoteThe Dakota language is written on the landscape of the Twin Cities About the Workshop Learning from Place: Bdote is an immersive experience that brings participants to sites of great significance to Dakota people in the Twin Cities. Participants will learn from Dakota community members through stories and… Read More