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Holiday Reading Suggestions 2021

New releases from Minnesota authors.

The Stone Tomahawk

Excerpted from “The Stone Tomahawk” in Linda LeGarde Grover, "Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaabekong" from the University of Minnesota Press, October 2021.

In the News: November 2021

Food costs, lab-developed beef, Towerside energy vision, food system books

Writing for Generations

Chris Stark at the Minnesota State Fair, while workers dismantle…

My Mother’s Salmon-Pink Dress

Though it would be better not to carry any suitcase other than my body, which is — mostly anyway — vents, memories, and naked bones.

“Sparked”: Current Residents on Defunding Police (part 2)

Reflections on the murder of George Floyd and the uprisings that followed, and on racism in Minnesota, as told by current residents of the state.

“Sparked”: Background Experiences (part 1)

Reflections on the murder of George Floyd and the uprisings that followed, and on racism in Minnesota, as told by former residents of the state

Expanding Conversation: Mother Tree (part 2)

"Our success in coevolution — our success as a productive society — is only as good as the strength of these bonds with other individuals and species."

Gayla Marty: Suggested Environmental Books

Last in our series of "Where Are They Now?" vignettes about environmentalists in Minnesota

The Wisdom of Nature

In her poignant memoir “Watershed”, Ranea Lenor Hanson points out that Minnesota is an apex whose rivers flow north to Hudson Bay, east through the Great Lakes, and south to the Gulf of Mexico. I rather enjoy the concept of our state being central to three directions. For me, it is a reminder that wherever you are in our state, there are three places you can flow.

Expanding Conversation: Mother Tree (part 1)

Book discussion guide: “Finding the Mother Tree," by Suzanne Simard

Learning How to Be an Ally: Reforming Policing & Punishment

How do we reimagine the work of reducing poverty, supporting mental health services, and dealing with trauma to minimize substance abuse and violence, in order to diminish the need for police to step in as an end to those consequences?