Brochure for the Expanded Educational Opportunities (EEO) Native American Component
Macalester Land Plot History
This post gives a brief overview of the history of the land on which Macalester’s campus stands. It discusses when and how Macalester College came to be considered the owner of this land and how that process reflects Mac’s place in discussions of settler colonialism.
Letter from Edward D. Neill to Hon. N. G. Taylor: “Effort and Failure to Civilize the Aborigines”
In this excerpt from an 1868 letter, Edward Neill argues in vitriolically racist terms that the United States and Minnesota governments should not recognize Ojibwe nationhood but should impose assimilationist terms on US-Ojibwe relations. Neill generalizes these views to include all Native peoples and nations with which the United States interacts.
PIPE History Poster
This PIPE History Poster is titled “Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with PROUD INDIGENOUS PEOPLE FOR EDUCATION!” It contains four text boxes with information about Native American history at Macalester. Each box contains a timeline from a different period: the 1950s-1960s, the 1970s, the 1990s, and the 2000s. Also pictured are images and news clippings depicting Native news and events on campus.
Disorientation: A People’s History Tour of Macalester
Disorientation: A People’s History Tour of Macalester is a zine, tour, and website created by students in the Fall 2013 class AMST 294-02 Resisting Minnesota. The site is available to viewers with a Macalester login. The zine is attached here in printable and web-viewable versions.