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Bdote And Fort Snelling: A Place Of Frame Disputes And Contested Meanings, Jason Mack
Bdote And Fort Snelling: A Place Of Frame Disputes And Contested Meanings, Jason Mack
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The area where the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers meet is a place of multiple and contested meanings for different groups of people. For the state of Minnesota, it is the location of the Historic Fort Snelling and Fort Snelling State Park. For the Dakota Nation, it is the site of their genesis story as well as a site of genocide and forced removal from their homelands. The present study describes what meanings this area has for these groups and defines the dimensions of the dispute over this place.
A purposive sample, consisting of both spoken and written discourse documents, was …