Our Home: Dakota Homeland

To Dakota people, many places in Minnesota are sacred. Our origin stories root us in these places. They teach us how to live with this land and to be good relatives.

Our Home: Ojibwe Homeland

From homes along the Atlantic Ocean, our ancestors trekked slowly westward. A prophecy led them to “the land where food grows on water.”

Black and white photograph of Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 186 East Fairfield, c.1951.

Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 186 East Fairfield

Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 186 East Fairfield, c.1951.

Black and white photograph of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 27 Prince Street, Minneapolis, 1936. Photograph by A. F. Raymond.

Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 1936

Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 27 Prince Street, Minneapolis, 1936. Photograph by A. F. Raymond.

Water color painting of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 27 Prince Street, Minneapolis, 1948.

Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 1948

Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 27 Prince Street, Minneapolis, 1948. Watercolor painting by Jo Lutz Rollins.

Black and white photograph of Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 27 Prince Street, Minneapolis, 1948.

Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 1948

Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 27 Prince Street, Minneapolis, 1948.

Color image of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Minneapolis, May 10, 2012

Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 2012

Exterior of Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Minneapolis, May 10, 2012. Photograph by Wikimedia user AlexiusHoratius.

Our Lady of Lourdes Parish School [undated]

Our Lady of Lourdes Parish School

Our Lady of Lourdes Parish School [undated] From: Weber, Nicholas A. A Short History of the French Catholic Congregation of East Minneapolis in Minnesota (1849–1949). Minneapolis: Lund Press, 1949.

Color image of Our Lady of Victory Chapel at St. Catherine University, 2009.

Our Lady of Victory Chapel at St. Catherine University

Our Lady of Victory Chapel at St. Catherine University, 2009.

This “yard long” photograph was taken at Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church (Our Savior’s Lutheran Church) on June 28, 1942, on its seventieth anniversary. The reverend at the time was J. E. Sutherland. Photographer unknown. Anoka County Historical Society object ID# P2075.19.84.

Our Savior’s Lutheran Church Anniversary

This “yard long” photograph was taken at Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church (Our Savior’s Lutheran Church) on June 28, 1942, on its seventieth anniversary. The reverend at the time was J. E. Sutherland. Photographer unknown. Anoka County Historical Society object ID# P2075.19.84.

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