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This Day in Minnesota History

January 6, 1996

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Maude Kegg, elder of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and author of books on her childhood and Ojibwe stories, dies. Born on August 26, 1904, she was raised in traditional Ojibwe lifeways. In 1990 she earned a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts for her traditional beadwork.

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