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Nick Coleman: The State We're In

With hotel purchases, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe welcomes you to St. Paul (again)

By Nick Coleman, The Uptake

What goes around comes around.

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Last rites in foreclosure fight? Minnesota Senate Dems block hearing on Homeowners' Bill of Rights

By Nick Coleman, The Uptake

This is not the way Minnesota housing rights activists thought it would turn out when Democrats regained control of the the State Legislature: Hopes for passing a Homeowners’ Bill of Rights to protect Minnesotans from needlessly losing their homes to foreclosure all but died Friday.

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OPINION | Gun fight: Can Minnesota have a fair gun debate at gunpoint?

By Nick Coleman, The Uptake

What if they gave a debate about guns in society and there were no guns in the room?

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150 years after America's largest mass execution: At Mankato ceremony, Minnesota and its Dakota Indians still search for healing

By Nick Coleman, The Uptake

Riders from the Dakota 38 Plus 2 Reconciliation Ride arrive in downtown Mankato on December 26, 2012, for a ceremony to commemorate the execution of thirty-eight Dakota warriors on the day after Christmas in 1862. The ride left Lower Brule, South Dakota on December 10, and made fourteen stops along the 340 mile ride to Mankato (Photography for The UpTake by Caroline Yang)

There were frozen riders on horseback, completing a two-week journey from the Missouri River in South Dakota. There were runners from Fort Snelling who had run, in relays, since midnight on Christmas night and finally arrived, almost 11 hours later, in downtown Mankato. And there was a throng of somber people shivering between the city library and a rail yard, waiting to observe the 150th anniversary of one of the most troubling events in U.S. history:

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Descendants of exiled Dakota Indians remember Minnesota's "Trail of Tears"

By Nick Coleman and Jacob Wheeler, The Uptake

A pair of bald eagles floated high above the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers Tuesday as a line of Dakota Indians, following in the footsteps of their exiled ancestors, rounded a highway curve in Mendota and marched toward Fort Snelling. And toward a spiritual healing of Minnesota’s most painful chapters — the executions, imprisonments and forced removal of the Dakota from their homeland in the wake of the Dakota War of 1862.

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