What we do know about Eden Prairie settlers’ earliest burials has been found in contemporaneous journals and diaries. In response to overcrowded church graveyards and the isolation of old family ...

By the early 1880s, prairie residents including white settlers, Métis, and Plains Indians were convinced of the neglect of a distant and imperial Ottawa. The Métis (mixed blood offspring of fur ...

Amber Valley looks like any number of small, rural communities, but a couple dilapidated log cabins hint at what was once the northernmost all-Black settlement in the world.

Long before white settlers ever stepped foot in the region ... ancestral homelands and became the new owners of Minnesota’s prairie regions. Though the Dakota frequently visited the region ...

It's these calls that earned the prairie dog its name — early settlers thought they sounded like the bark of a dog. Today, black-tailed prairie dog populations have been reduced by as much as 95 ...