Coming to Mni Sota explores conflicts, contradictions and solidarity among the millions who have moved through, and to, Minnesota. For hundreds of years, the arrival of those from around the world has changed Minnesota's identity and caused disruption for those already here.

01:30 The first Minnesotans were the Dakota people; entry of Ojibwe people
03:40 European migration into US, colonization
06:18 Fort Snelling built in 1819, impacts on Native Americans and land use
09:47 1862 US Dakota war, Homestead Act opens land to new settlers
10:32 Major shifts industrialization, production and railroad boom brought flood of human migration
11:30 Swedes people arrive in 1850's escaping poverty, seeking religious freedom
15:30 1862 Dakota people exiled, land opened for homesteading, German immigration
18:30 Bishop John Ireland, Catholic colonization effort
19:36 Irish arrive in Minnesota in late 1870's to escape poverty
21:40 German Jews people arrive in St. Paul, MN
22:39 Mass immigration into US caused social turmoil
23:03 1876 Hayes Tilden Compromise impacted growth of Jim Crow system, Southern Black people pushed out to move North and West
27:20 Influence of churches in ethnic communities
29:30 Americanization, era of race science
32:53 Late 19th century, iron range open pit mining begins, migrants arrive
34:26 Labor movement, 1916 worker strike
36:00 WWI impact on recent immigrants, culture
38:29 Mexican migration to US, recruited to Minnesota for agricultural labor
39:51 Impact of Korean War, Secret War (War in Laos) on child adoption, migration
42:29 African American population and migration came from multiple countries
46:07 1965 HartCeller Immigration Act opened up America's doors
48:00 Mexican American recognition, rights movement in Minnesota
49:27 Hmong arrive in Minnesota in 1975
50:56 1980 Immigration Act, forced assimilation directive, SE Asian refugees in Minnesota
53:26 Need for recognition of cultural history, migration tension

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