Grow your understanding of this history with an interactive, in-person walking tour of downtown/central Minneapolis, an area deeply entangled with LGBTQ+ people’s stories, movements, and place in the world.
K-12 educators will receive 3 clock hours. Teaching Bdote: Tools for Teaching American Indian Content is designed for educators who have attended, or are planning to attend, Learning from Place: Bdote. This workshop is especially useful for developing unique classroom content to align with Minnesota State Social Studies Standards.
K-12 educators will receive 4 clock hours. Build your cultural understanding and awareness as you immerse yourself within St. Paul's vibrant Hmong community through an interactive, in-person experience.
Learning from Place: Bdote - visit sites of great significance to Dakota people. Participants will learn from Dakota community members through stories and histories that have often been left out of our state’s history. This event is offered in partnership with The Great Northern as part of its 2022 festival.
Join members of our diverse, multi-generational, and intersectional Rondo Community as we explore the opportunities and possibilities of an African American Cultural Enterprise District connected by a land bridge.
K-12 educators will receive 3 clock hours. Be immersed by traveling through downtown Minneapolis, interspersing history with storytelling from local LGBTQ+ activists and artists.
K-12 educators will receive 3 clock hours. Build your cultural understanding and awareness of Minnesota’s African cultures as you immerse yourself within St. Paul’s Little Africa cultural corridor.
K-12 educators will receive 5 clock hours. Learning from Place: Bdote is an immersive experience that brings participants to sites of great significance to Dakota people in the Twin Cities. Participants will learn from Dakota community members through stories and histories that have often been left out of our state’s history.
2023 marks the tenth anniversary of Learning from Place: Bdote. Join us as we honor and recognize this important milestone and the individuals who co-created this transformational experience – Mona Smith, Ramona Kitto Stately, and Ethan Neerdaels.
The 10th annual MELEd Fall Conference will be held November 17 and 18, 2023 at the Saint Paul RiverCentre. Educators come together to celebrate, share information, learn from and with each other, and network across Minnesota for ESL, Dual Language and Bilingual Education, and Migrant Education.
Learning from Place: Bdote is an immersive experience offered by the Minnesota Humanities Center that invites participants to visit, inhabit, and expand their understanding of Twin Cities sites with deep significance to Dakota people. Participants learn from Dakota community members to reconsider their relationship to land, water, sky, and all life—including other humans—through stories and perspectives that are often left out of our state’s history.
Learning from Place: Bdote is an immersive experience offered by the Minnesota Humanities Center that invites participants to visit, inhabit, and expand their understanding of Twin Cities sites with deep significance to Dakota people. Participants learn from Dakota community members to reconsider their relationship to land, water, sky, and all life—including other humans—through stories and perspectives that are often left out of our state’s history.
