Recognizing the importance of hands-on learning, the Minnesota Historical Society developed new curriculum with a particular emphasis on American Indian history in Minnesota.
The goal of the American Indian Family Center is to create an Early Childhood Montessori Language Immersion Program to offer to American Indian Families living in Saint Paul and the east metro area.
A project of: Statewide History Partnership Projects
Recipient:
Minnesota Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$185,476
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Partner: The Minnesota Humanities Center
American Indian undergraduate students from across Minnesota participated in a unique summer educational experience. The students selected for this intensive 3-week residential program attended classroom presentations and experienced hands-on learning about the museum field and other historical and cultural preservation organizations. The students also learned about various career paths and academic requirements for working in these types of organizations, both on and off reservations, as well as particular challenges faced by American Indian communities related to preserving tribal history.
A project of: Statewide History Partnership Projects
Recipient:
Minnesota Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$185,476
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
Partner: The Minnesota Humanities Center
American Indian undergraduate students from across Minnesota participated in a unique summer educational experience. The students selected for this intensive 3-week residential program attended classroom presentations and experienced hands-on learning about the museum field and other historical and cultural preservation organizations. The students also learned about various career paths and academic requirements for working in these types of organizations, both on and off reservations, as well as particular challenges faced by American Indian communities related to preserving tribal history.
A project of: Statewide History Partnership Projects
Recipient:
Minnesota Historical Society
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$89,853
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
The 15 students selected to participate in this intensive three-week residential program will attend classroom presentations and experience hands-on learning about the museum field and other historical and cultural preservation organizations.
A project of: Minnesota Historical and Cultural Grants Program 2012
Recipient:
American Swedish Institute
2013 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$71,588
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
To acquire professional services for improving public accessibility to significant archival materials documenting Swedish immigrant contributions to state history
A project of: Minnesota Historical and Cultural Grants Program 2012
Recipient:
Minnesota African American Museum & Cultural Center
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$155,250
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
To design and install climate control that meets museum standards in order to better preserve collections that document African American history in Minnesota.
A project of: Minnesota Historical and Cultural Grants Program 2012
Recipient:
Carver County Historical Society
2012 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$27,140
Source:
Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund
To restore and stabilize the foundation of the Andrew Peterson Farmstead Barn, listed in the National Register of Historic Places, to be eventually reused as a public park facility.
This project continues water plan activities from a 2007 Clean Water Legacy grant and initiates a multi‐county project to restore hydrology and water quality in an impaired trout stream.
Kanabec County Soil and Water Conservation District
2011 Fiscal Year Funding Amount:
$112,265
Source:
Clean Water Fund
This project will be a complete TMDL report for the Biota and Bacteria (E. coli) impairments for the Ann River Watershed. The water bodies associated with these impairments will then be removed from the MPCA’s impaired waters list, and implementation activities to restore the water bodies will begin.
A direct appropriation of $400,000 in FY 2010 for the Anoka Conservation District (ACD) is for the metropolitan landscape restoration program for water quality and improvement projects in the seven-county metro area.
