Minnesota: A History of the Land, Episode 1

I just want to tell you that this remarkable documentation is watched in Germany as well. I feel deep in me a close connection the the old US and its history, even if it is, or was, very sad in many cases. Warm greetings from Black Forest Germany :-)

In the 1980's I was in the US Army in Bavaria. Sometimes in the mixed forest of southern Germany I would lose myself and forget that I wasn't in the woods of northern Minnesota.

...l am a proud anishinaabe from the Leech Lake Reservation and wish i could have seen it as it was when my people were the only ones living here in the middle of nothing but beautiful wild...

My family came to Minnesota from Norway and Denmark . They made a good life for themselves in both southern Minnesota and northern Minnesota on the Canadian border. My mother recalls coming home and finding a lumberjack in their house or Ojibway native by the Rainey River. No one locked their doors back then of course. My family accepted indigenous people as their neighbors. It is very sad what the US government did to the first peoples of North America.

In the past 60 yrs I've witnessed more change than I care for Not all of it for the better in my opinion

I live in Minnesota so I had to watch it.

Thank you for making this available to all of us.

This is wonderful! More than I ever learned in school about our great State, Minnesota

Over 1000 square miles of that pine forest was burned between 1890 and 1920

as an irishman now retired in deeply forested sub alpine slovenia, i see commercial opportunism and its damage (development) all around,it appears the people and politicians are too easily led by corporate led consumerism. the carnage of wild life on the roads each morning is heartbreaking,go faster madness and all its associate trashy culture across nu eu

watching this from austria ! i feel useless and off track but hey nice landscape there minnesota !

Love this, My family was up there in the 1860's on dad's side. Hodel's from Albany, Stearns, Minn . The Log home that was built in 1869 still stands to this day. But, you can't tell it. Lemke's, Mitchell's, Berget's, Rogers. Little Falls, Mizpah, Northome,

Mine as well. My Great grandfather even went to fight for the Union during the Civil War, came back and is still to this Day, living in the old now newer HOMESTEAD , IN SOUTH BRANCH,ST.JAMES. VERY HONORED to be a member.

Great video,

I am a history junkie and a native Minnesotan so thank you for posting this great series ! My family has been in MN since before it was a state. My great, great grandfather was a pioneer in the Roseau/ Warroad area, they were very friendly with the Indians. They were neighbors. My Great grandfather spent his last days in a hospital sharing a room with an Indian man whom he had known since childhood. My parents said they literally looked like twins, and they always brought gifts for both men. I think that it is fairly obvious, ( the activist leanings of Minnesota's public broadcasting outlets) communists demand everything must be viewed through lenses of hate and "oppression" . So instead of purely contextual information we get propaganda with some history added in. All thanks to Minnesota taxpayers !

I read the comments, and am amazed at the great hindsight of everyone. Everyone taking the high ground, and claiming they would have done differently. In reality you are behaving the same today as they did yesterday. Today as yesterday people are being forced to do what the elites super wealthy want them to do. You can see this today with forced mandates to make the majority of the people do what a few corrupt elite want them to do. You all had a chance to start to correct this by using the Constitution to limit the power of the government and electing honest people. You all refused to.

Thank you,I have learned so much about the north american wood and its history!!

Awesome video!, my GF lives in Mankato MN...Thx!

In Europe the Peasants could not own Land.. They were tennants their Tax was to give 50% of their Crops to the Kings , Lords , Govoners in the Region.. This is why they were willing to take the risks to move to Ameica and Homestead on 160 acres of Land .. and keep 100% of what they raised and Produced..

It seems extraordinary to us now that nobody at that time seems to have had any qualms about the destruction of the forests .