All Projects

To hire a qualified consultant to write an interpretive plan for the Woodbury Heritage Society.

To provide better organization of archival materials, allowing for greater public access to the community's historic resources.

To document in 13 oral history interviews the history of Celtic Junction Arts Center.

To hire qualified professionals to restore the east storefront on the St. James Opera House, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

This project is a fall 2024 exhibition of art created by self-identifying Latina women and non-binary, Latinx Minnesota-based artists with ancestral roots in Latin America. The exhibition is being co-curated by local visual artist, community muralist and educator, Zamara Cyan, and William Gustavo Franklin, an independent art curator, educator and author of the recent volume, Latin Art in Minnesota Conversations and What's Next (Afton Press, 2023).

To hire qualified historians to research the early history of the Black Baptist Church in Minnesota.

To provide better organization of the museum's archival collections, allowing for greater public access to the community's historic resources.

To hire qualified professionals to complete roof repairs on the Maynard State Bank, listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

1. Offer as many children as possible the chance to be immersed in the Dakota Language. This includes prioritizing children of Dakota heritage, children with Dakota language connections, and children with other tribal affiliations. Ensure families feels safe, welcome, and included in the language learning process and in the shaping of future programming. 2. Build a network of Dakota Language educators through collaborative teaching, including language experts, elders, and early childhood teachers. 3.

The proposed project will focus on sustaining our most well-attended set of classes - Ojibwe I and II and beginning to implement a revenue generation plan to support these activities across the long term. When COVID forced the closure of the Minneapolis American Indian Center's doors in March of 2020, we were fortunate that we had already began piloting Indigenous classes using online platforms, so the shift to all-online was fairly immediate and smooth.

To hire a qualified archaeologist to conduct a survey of Dakota and Ojibwe sites in Wadena.

Cansayapi will: 1) Increase teaching tools for the community by translating eight (8) curriculum units for the Dakota Immersion School and developing a ?second-year high school Dakota language syllabus that meets ACTFL world standards for listening and speaking; 2) Introduce and build the Dakota language skills of 122 community members; and 3) extend Dakota language use across the community through expanded technologically-based language interpretation at Lower Sioux?s Historic Site.

Operating Support

Opportunity

To hire a qualified museum lighting professional to develop a museum lighting plan.

To provide better organization of the museum collections, allowing for greater public access to the community's historic resources.

To hire a qualified professional to assess the collections held by the Gunflint Trail Historical Society.

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