Native Names and Indigenous Places in Minnesota featured on February 15th during final program of February 2025 event series
Learn about the connection between place names in Minnesota to their Indigenous language during the third and final program of this year’s “Exploring History and Culture in Central Minnesota” event series. The program will be presented on Saturday, February 15th, at the Benton County Historical Society in Sauk Rapids by Justus Probst, Dakota, from the Lower Sioux Indian Community and Social Studies Education major at St. Cloud State University. In its sixth year, the series engages with the history of communities that have been and continue to be part of central Minnesota. This year’s series features Native American history and culture. A partnership project of the Stearns, Benton, and Sherburne County historical societies, the three central Minnesota history museums are collaborating for the 2025 series with the American Indian Center at St. Cloud State University, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, and Sherburne County Parks.
The three-part series includes Sherburne County Park Director, Gina Hugo, presenting Cultural Competence Through Park Land Development-Two Inlets at Bdé Heḣáka-Omashkooz Zaaga’igaans Regional Park at the Sherburne History Center in Becker on February 1st and Native American Boarding School Impacts and Legacies presented by Ted Gordon, Joe Farry Professor of Public Policy and Civic Engagement; Macy Ellis, undergraduate research assistant; and Meg Nelson, President of Indigenous Students Association at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University on Saturday, February 8th, at the Stearns History Museum in St. Cloud. All programs start at 10:30 am and are free and open to the public.
For more information about the series and the upcoming programs, contact Ann Marie Johnson at the Stearns History Museum (320/253-8424 or development@stearns-museum.org).
