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I request that the first two lead sentences for Minneapolis be changed as follows in accordance to consistency and the standard formatting of the most populous cities in their respective states (E.g. Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, etc):
Minneapolis ( /ˌmɪniˈæpəlɪs/ ⓘ MIN-ee-AP-ə-lis), officially the City of Minneapolis, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Hennepin County. As of the 2020 census, the population was 429,954. Cleter ( talk) 00:28, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Comment - Might I suggest a compromise? We could potentially combine elements from both formats while also retaining the clarity that the current format offers. For example, we could start with Cleter's proposed format but slightly modify it. Here's a potential revision:
'Minneapolis (/ˌmɪniˈæpəlɪs/), officially the City of Minneapolis, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Hennepin County. As of the 2020 census, its population is 429,954.
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Somewhat off-topic: does including "officially the City of Minneapolis" bring value here? It's substantially similar to the article name, and forces the words "city" and "Minneapolis" to be repeated. It feels like something that should be reserved for the history section or a new "name" section. We removed it from Milwaukee for similar reasons. See MOS:LEADALT. (Regardless, it also needs a citation to support that it's the official name. The current citation only supports the census' usage of the phrase.) Ed [talk] [OMT] 19:03, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
I (once again) request that the first two lead sentences for Minneapolis be changed as follows in accordance to consistency and the standard formatting of the most populous cities in their respective states (E.g. Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Boston ((featured)), etc):
Minneapolis, officially the City of Minneapolis, is a city in
the state of
Minnesota and the
county seat of
Hennepin County. As of the
2020 census the population was 429,954, making it the state's
most populous city.
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I (once again) request that the first two lead sentences for Minneapolis be changed as follows in accordance to consistency and the standard formatting of the most populous cities in their respective states (E.g. Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Boston ((featured)), etc):
Minneapolis ( /ˌmɪniˈæpəlɪs/ ⓘ MIN-ee-AP-ə-lis), officially the City of Minneapolis, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Hennepin County. As of the 2020 census, the population was 429,954. Cleter ( talk) 00:28, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
there's no "standard" that must be followed when writing the lead sentenceyeah I don't believe in a standard either, but that doesn't mean one shouldn't seek improvements to an existing version (after all, that's the point of Wikipedia). Secondly, just how is it better organized? 🅲🅻🅴🆃🅴🆁 ( a word) 00:09, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi, Timothy2b. The old climate data is outdated, and based on averages ending in 1990. I restored current NOWData (1873 to 2023). - SusanLesch ( talk) 13:42, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
Further, we have to decide whether we want current data. If we want current data we must agree to update it annually, something SandyGeorgia would oppose. I need to know if this decision applies to all FAs or not. - SusanLesch ( talk) 17:05, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
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I saw some edits over this weather box, but I do see some changes being needed. Last Monday, Minneapolis recorded a new record high for the month of February (65 F)
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Climate data for Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, Minnesota (1991–2020 normals, [a] extremes 1872–present) [b] | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °F (°C) | 58 (14) |
65 (18) |
83 (28) |
95 (35) |
106 (41) |
104 (40) |
108 (42) |
103 (39) |
104 (40) |
92 (33) |
77 (25) |
68 (20) |
108 (42) |
Mean maximum °F (°C) | 42.5 (5.8) |
46.7 (8.2) |
64.7 (18.2) |
79.7 (26.5) |
88.7 (31.5) |
93.3 (34.1) |
94.4 (34.7) |
91.7 (33.2) |
88.3 (31.3) |
80.1 (26.7) |
62.1 (16.7) |
47.1 (8.4) |
96.4 (35.8) |
Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 23.6 (−4.7) |
28.5 (−1.9) |
41.7 (5.4) |
56.6 (13.7) |
69.2 (20.7) |
79.0 (26.1) |
83.4 (28.6) |
80.7 (27.1) |
72.9 (22.7) |
58.1 (14.5) |
41.9 (5.5) |
28.8 (−1.8) |
55.4 (13.0) |
Daily mean °F (°C) | 16.2 (−8.8) |
20.6 (−6.3) |
33.3 (0.7) |
47.1 (8.4) |
59.5 (15.3) |
69.7 (20.9) |
74.3 (23.5) |
71.8 (22.1) |
63.5 (17.5) |
49.5 (9.7) |
34.8 (1.6) |
22.0 (−5.6) |
46.9 (8.3) |
Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 8.8 (−12.9) |
12.7 (−10.7) |
24.9 (−3.9) |
37.5 (3.1) |
49.9 (9.9) |
60.4 (15.8) |
65.3 (18.5) |
62.8 (17.1) |
54.2 (12.3) |
40.9 (4.9) |
27.7 (−2.4) |
15.2 (−9.3) |
38.4 (3.6) |
Mean minimum °F (°C) | −14.7 (−25.9) |
−8 (−22) |
2.7 (−16.3) |
21.9 (−5.6) |
35.7 (2.1) |
47.3 (8.5) |
54.5 (12.5) |
52.3 (11.3) |
38.2 (3.4) |
26.0 (−3.3) |
9.2 (−12.7) |
−7.1 (−21.7) |
−16.9 (−27.2) |
Record low °F (°C) | −41 (−41) |
−33 (−36) |
−32 (−36) |
2 (−17) |
18 (−8) |
34 (1) |
43 (6) |
39 (4) |
26 (−3) |
10 (−12) |
−25 (−32) |
−39 (−39) |
−41 (−41) |
Average precipitation inches (mm) | 0.89 (23) |
0.87 (22) |
1.68 (43) |
2.91 (74) |
3.91 (99) |
4.58 (116) |
4.06 (103) |
4.34 (110) |
3.02 (77) |
2.58 (66) |
1.61 (41) |
1.17 (30) |
31.62 (803) |
Average snowfall inches (cm) | 11.0 (28) |
9.5 (24) |
8.2 (21) |
3.5 (8.9) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.8 (2.0) |
6.8 (17) |
11.4 (29) |
51.2 (130) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in) | 9.6 | 7.8 | 9.0 | 11.2 | 12.4 | 11.8 | 10.4 | 9.8 | 9.3 | 9.5 | 8.3 | 9.7 | 118.8 |
Average snowy days (≥ 0.1 in) | 9.3 | 7.3 | 5.2 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 4.5 | 8.8 | 38.2 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 69.9 | 69.5 | 67.4 | 60.3 | 60.4 | 63.8 | 64.8 | 67.9 | 70.7 | 68.3 | 72.6 | 74.1 | 67.5 |
Average dew point °F (°C) | 4.1 (−15.5) |
9.5 (−12.5) |
20.7 (−6.3) |
31.6 (−0.2) |
43.5 (6.4) |
54.7 (12.6) |
60.1 (15.6) |
58.3 (14.6) |
49.8 (9.9) |
37.9 (3.3) |
25.0 (−3.9) |
11.1 (−11.6) |
33.9 (1.0) |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 156.7 | 178.3 | 217.5 | 242.1 | 295.2 | 321.9 | 350.5 | 307.2 | 233.2 | 181.0 | 112.8 | 114.3 | 2,710.7 |
Percent possible sunshine | 55 | 61 | 59 | 60 | 64 | 69 | 74 | 71 | 62 | 53 | 39 | 42 | 59 |
Average ultraviolet index | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Source 1: NOAA (relative humidity, dew point and sun 1961–1990) [2] [3] [4] | |||||||||||||
Source 2: Weather Atlas (UV) [5] |
Solids02 ( talk) 06:44, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
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Greetings. As the last step of FAR, the lead needs to be inclusive of all sections in the article. I propose the following. Your comments? - SusanLesch ( talk) 14:30, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
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Minneapolis, [c] officially the City of Minneapolis, [2] is a city in the state of Minnesota and the county seat of Hennepin County. [3] With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. [4] It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota. Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and the surrounding area are collectively known as the Twin Cities, a metropolitan area home to 3.69 million inhabitants. [5] Minneapolis is built on an artesian aquifer on flat terrain, and is known for cold, snowy winters and warm, humid summers. Nicknamed the "City of Lakes", [6] Minneapolis is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks, and waterfalls. One of the most extensive public park systems in the US is connected by the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway. The site of Minneapolis was originally inhabited by Dakota people. European settlement began along Saint Anthony Falls—the only natural waterfall on the Mississippi River [7]—on land north of Fort Snelling. The city's early growth was attributed to its proximity to the fort and the falls providing power for industrial activity. Minneapolis was the 19th-century lumber and flour milling capital of the world, and as home to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has preserved its financial clout into the 21st century. A Depression-era labor strike brought about federal worker protections. Minneapolis played a role in the development of supercomputers and mobile refrigeration, and is the birthplace of General Mills, the Pillsbury brand, and the Target Corporation. Minneapolis offers literary presses and publishers; James Beard award-winning chefs; ethnic museums; and US pond hockey championships. The city's arts institutions include the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Guthrie Theater. Four professional sports teams play downtown. Prince is survived by his favorite venue, the First Avenue nightclub. Minneapolis is home to the University of Minnesota's main campus. The city's public transport is provided by Metro Transit and the international airport, serving the Twin Cities region, is located towards the south on the city limits. Most of the world's religions are reflected in the city, which upholds more than 50 denominations and religions, and many Minneapolitans are volunteers. Despite its well-regarded quality of life, [8] Minneapolis faces a pressing challenge in the form of stark disparities among its residents—arguably the most critical issue confronting the city in the 21st century. [9] Governed by a mayor-council system, Minneapolis has a political landscape dominated by the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), with Jacob Frey serving as mayor since 2018. - SusanLesch ( talk) 14:30, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
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Minneapolis, [d] officially the City of Minneapolis, [2] is a city in the state of Minnesota and the county seat of Hennepin County. [3] With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. [4] It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota. Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and the surrounding area are collectively known as the Twin Cities, a metropolitan area home to 3.69 million inhabitants. [11] Minneapolis is built on an artesian aquifer on flat terrain, and is known for cold, snowy winters and warm, humid summers. Nicknamed the "City of Lakes", [6] Minneapolis is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks, and waterfalls. The city's extensive public park system is connected by the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway.
Dakota people originally inhabited the site of today's Minneapolis. European settlement began north of Fort Snelling along Saint Anthony Falls—the only natural waterfall on the Mississippi River. [7] The city's early growth was attributed to its proximity to the fort and the falls providing power for industrial activity. Minneapolis was the 19th-century lumber and flour milling capital of the world, and as home to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has preserved its financial clout into the 21st century. A Minneapolis Depression-era labor strike brought about federal worker protections. Work in Minneapolis contributed to the computing industry, and the city is the birthplace of General Mills, the Pillsbury brand, Target Corporation, and of Thermo King mobile refrigeration.
The city's major arts institutions include the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Guthrie Theater. Four professional sports teams play downtown. Prince is survived by his favorite venue, the First Avenue nightclub. Minneapolis is home to the University of Minnesota's main campus. The city's public transport is provided by Metro Transit and the international airport, serving the Twin Cities region, is located towards the south on the city limits.
Residents adhere to more than fifty religions, and thousands choose to volunteer their time. Despite its well-regarded quality of life, [12] Minneapolis faces a pressing challenge in the form of stark disparities among its residents—arguably the most critical issue confronting the city in the 21st century. [9] Governed by a mayor-council system, Minneapolis has a political landscape dominated by the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), with Jacob Frey serving as mayor since 2018.
Oncamera, please see what you think of the above. Do you think it's better? - SusanLesch ( talk) 19:53, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
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GNIS
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).By spreading the wealth to its poorest neighborhoods, the metro area provides more-equal services in low-income places, and keeps quality of life high just about everywhere.
By spreading the wealth to its poorest neighborhoods, the metro area provides more-equal services in low-income places, and keeps quality of life high just about everywhere.
Hey everyone! I am planning to make some changes here and these to Minneapolis's page. Please feel free to let me know if I messed up something because this is my first time editing on wikipedia. My plan is to maybe update the different cuisines that have entered (somali, indian, and so on). The list of “sister cities” needs to be updated based on the new information from [1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Apurnuh ( talk • contribs) 23:11, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
@ Magnolia677: Thank you for your edit. I will reword the entry accordingly; please note though, the US Patent Office says the company was incorporated in Minneapolis. - SusanLesch ( talk) 20:16, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
Excuse me,
Magnolia677. There's no improvement after your changes. Why single out one missionary who may have been one of the first White people to see the falls but is known for staying at
Mille Lacs Lake nowhere near Minneapolis, and skip over Britain's arrival? In the same stroke, you chopped out every other person. Your edit summary is peculiar, Minneapolis was not the Dakota "homeland"
. The paragraph you just removed explains that indeed it was. I suggest you read Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota by Westerman and White if you have a disagreement with that.
You wrote, This is the only source that specifically mentions Minneapolis. This is sourced content, please discuss. You don't own this article.
First, this is ludicrous. Your choice of sources is fine but cannot stand up to those that were already used in this article. Why don't you add yours to Further reading?
Works cited gives you dozens of sources that mention Minneapolis. The page you cite says up front, It is a time dominated by the economy of fur trading, first by the French, then the British, and finally Americans.
But you chose to skip the British (and for some reason, you chose to cherry pick from a web page instead of reading and digesting the sources we already use). Second, you don't own this article any more than anyone else does.
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Why are you trying to make big changes today? We haven't heard anything from you for four months since you asked to include The Fall of Minneapolis on November 20, 2023 - SusanLesch ( talk) 23:59, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
@ Oncamera: With this edit you changed a section heading from "Dakota people" to "Dakota homeland". This source includes a map of the Dakota traditional territory, and also states--with regard to the "Dakota homeland"--that the Dakota controlled a territory "that stretched from the Upper Mississippi River to the Middle Missouri River". How is it that you view Minneapolis as the Dakota "homeland"? Magnolia677 ( talk) 10:59, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
I don't know if there's someone who wants to find a version of this photo that can be successfully uploaded to the Wikicommons, but I think this early photo of Dakota tipi village in front of the
John H Stevens House would be a great addition to this article, as seen in this
Star Tribune piece. On the west side of the river in Minneapolis, John H. Stevens built the first home there in 1850 and initially platted the city in 1854. Stevens was the first authorized resident in what would become Minneapolis. He was allowed to occupy the site, then part of the Fort Snelling military reservation, in exchange for providing a ferry service to the St. Anthony side of the river.
I've seen the photo captioned as "1854 photo Indian camp on site of Bridge Square, lower Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. With frame house of "Col." John H. Stevens in left background Vintage 8x10 Photograph" on other sites.
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Daguerreotype view of Native American tipis and the John Harrington Stevens House on ground that would later become the Gateway District of Minneapolis, Minnesota, c. 1852-1855. By Tallmadge Elwell.oncamera (talk page) 22:52, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Should the Minneapolis article begin its first section with A) an overview of the Native Americans who lived in the area (as it does now) with the heading "Dakota homeland, city founded", or B) the first European to view the area that became Minneapolis (as it does in this version) under the heading "Dakota people, city founded"? - SusanLesch ( talk) 23:15, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
About six Native American nations inhabited Minnesota, and in modern times, two nations dominated: the Dakota (one tribe of the Sioux nation) and the Ojibwe (also known as Chippewa, one tribe of the Anishinaabe nations). Evidence says the Dakota were state residents in or before 1000 AD. Dakota are the only inhabitants who claimed no other land; they have no traditions of having immigrated and their site of creation is at nearby Bdóte. The Ojibwe migrated west from the Atlantic states to northern Minnesota where they displaced many of the Dakota people by the 17th century.
In 1680, French explorer Louis Hennepin went through what was to become Minneapolis, and named St. Anthony Falls. Hennepin described the Dakota there as "cooking in earthen vessels, living in bark lodges, eating wild rice cooked with dried blueberries, and hunting bison on the prairies". (removed)
One centers on Mille Lacs Lake, the same place in east-central Minnesota where Father Hennepin—the first European to see Owámniyomni and who renamed it Saint Anthony Falls after his patron saint—writes that the Dakota held him captive in 1680.- SusanLesch ( talk) 22:48, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, PersusjCP. Great to meet you. I think you might enjoy the second paragraph of this article by Bruce White. It's the clearest and shortest explanation that Minneapolis is the Dakota homeland that I've seen so far. - SusanLesch ( talk) 22:20, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
I agree that "Dakota homeland" is not the greatest title for that section as it is too specific and broad at the same time). No worries on WP:RS. Tom Weber says the same thing in Minneapolis: An Urban Biography (Chapter 1). Dr. White is a subject matter expert, who won a Minnesota Book Award and another prize with Gwen Westerman for Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota which I recommend. Take care. - SusanLesch ( talk) 22:29, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
Dakota are the only inhabitants who claimed no other land; [1] they have no traditions of having immigrated and their site of creation is at nearby Bdóte. [2] [a]I'd make only one correction to what we have there: omit the word "nearby". - SusanLesch ( talk) 01:39, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
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I need some help sourcing the Ojibwe's arrival. Treuer [1] is a good source but he seems partisan to me. I'm willing to go with either "Dakota homeland" (which Oncamera documented as used by the majority in the region) or "Dakota birthplace" (a new heading proposed to avoid all the disagreement). I hope this satisfies SounderBruce and Magnolia677. Comments welcome. - SusanLesch ( talk) 15:35, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
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Two indigenous nations inhabited the area now called Minneapolis. [2] Archaeologists have evidence to say at least since 1000 A.D., [3] they were the Dakota (one tribe of the Sioux nation), [4] and, after the 1700s, [5] the Ojibwe (also known as Chippewa, one tribe of the Anishinaabe nations). [6] Dakota people have different stories to explain their creation. [7] One centers on Mille Lacs Lake, [8] the same place in east-central Minnesota where Father Hennepin—the first European to see Owámniyomni and who renamed it Saint Anthony Falls after his patron saint [9]—writes that the Dakota held him captive [10] in 1680. [11] More widely accepted, another story says the Dakota emerged from Bdóte [7]—the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers just south of Minneapolis. [a] Dakota are the only inhabitants of the Minneapolis area who claimed no other land; [16] they have no traditions of having immigrated. [17] In the Dakota language, the city's name is Bde Óta Othúŋwe ('Many Lakes Town'). [b]
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Two Indigenous nations inhabited the area now called Minneapolis. [1] Archaeologists have evidence to say at least since 1000 A.D., [2] they are the Dakota (one half of the Sioux nation), [3] and, after the 1700s, [4] the Ojibwe (also known as Chippewa, members of the Anishinaabe nations). [5] Dakota people have different stories to explain their creation. [6] One widely accepted story says the Dakota emerged from Bdóte, [6] the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers. Dakota are the only inhabitants of the Minneapolis area who claimed no other land; [7] they have no traditions of having immigrated. [8] In 1680, cleric Louis Hennepin, who was probably the first European to see the Minneapolis waterfall the Dakota people call Owámniyomni, renamed it the Falls of St. Anthony of Padua for his patron saint. [13] In the Dakota language, the city's name is Bde Óta Othúŋwe ('Many Lakes Town'). [b]
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Hello fellow editors, we are proposing some expansions and improvements to the Minneapolis article to enhance its comprehensiveness and accuracy:
We plan to add more details about the city's geography, including its location within Minnesota, topography, and notable natural features like lakes, rivers, and parks.
The article could use additional demographic information on population size, ethnic/racial makeup, languages spoken, and religious affiliations in the city.
We want to substantially expand the Culture section by adding specifics on the arts, music, literature, theater, festivals, cuisine, and other significant cultural institutions or traditions in Minneapolis.
We will highlight more of the city's notable landmarks, attractions, tourist destinations, historic sites, museums, sports venues, and other points of interest.
We plan to rely primarily on sources from city/state government websites, travel guides, newspaper articles, and scholarly publications when making these additions. Please let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions related to expanding the Minneapolis article in these areas. We look forward to improving the article's coverage together.
Suchithra_moolinti, Kambh021 - Tagging co-editors working on this along with me. Sireesha-p23 ( talk) 22:30, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Ikraanh31, are you by any chance a student doing your homework on Wikipedia? Wikipedia will not accept unsourced material. Please read WP:Student assignments. Thank you for your interest in Minneapolis. One item you added has been included. - SusanLesch ( talk) 23:07, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
@ Magnolia677: Wikipedia needs help on dozens of articles and we seem to be hung up on this one. This article is on a list of stalled FARs. Would you please provide your improvements here to "the third, forth, and fifth paragraph"? - SusanLesch ( talk) 17:07, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
Magnolia677, the effort to finish this FAR has occupied my time along with SandyGeorgia's and Hog Farm's for years. Their time is too valuable to spend on arguments. As other editors have in the preceding RfC, I am trying to accommodate you, and made a working copy for you to edit whenever you decide "the time" comes. It skips all context outside Fort Snelling and Minneapolis, and I'm afraid becomes an incomprehensible mass. Maybe you can fix it. If you can do that, I'd be happy to place it in the article without any "pushback", "immediate" reversion, and "protracted dispute resolution". There is no WP:DEADLINE. - SusanLesch ( talk) 15:19, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
Oncamera and PersusjCP, do you have any comments on this version of the first section? I trimmed out a lot. The exception is I kept in the war in 1862, even though it was in the Minnesota River valley and not in Minneapolis, because otherwise it makes no sense to march a population to Fort Snelling and then banish them. I don't anticipate we'll get anything from Magnolia677 soon (in the above section). Thank you for your time and expertise. - SusanLesch ( talk) 18:41, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
Two Indigenous nations inhabited the area now called Minneapolis. [1] Archaeologists have evidence to say at least since 1000 A.D., [2] they are the Dakota (one half of the Sioux nation), [3] and, after the 1700s, [4] the Ojibwe (also known as Chippewa, members of the Anishinaabe nations). [5] Dakota people have different stories to explain their creation. [6] One widely accepted story says the Dakota emerged from Bdóte, [6] the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers. Dakota are the only inhabitants of the Minneapolis area who claimed no other land; [7] they have no traditions of having immigrated. [8] In 1680, cleric Louis Hennepin, who was probably the first European to see the Minneapolis waterfall the Dakota people call Owámniyomni, renamed it the Falls of St. Anthony of Padua for his patron saint. [9] In the Dakota language, the city's name is Bde Óta Othúŋwe ('Many Lakes Town'). [a]
Purchasing most of modern-day Minneapolis, Zebulon Pike made the 1805 Treaty of St. Peter with the Dakota. [b] Pike bought a 9-square-mile (23 km2) strip of land—coinciding with the sacred place of Dakota origin [6]—on the Mississippi south of Saint Anthony Falls, [15] with the agreement the US would build a military fort and trading post there and the Dakota would retain their land use rights. [16] In 1819, the US Army built Fort Snelling [17] to direct Native American trade away from British-Canadian traders, and to deter warring between the Dakota and Ojibwe in northern Minnesota. [18] The fort attracted traders, settlers, and merchants, spurring growth in the surrounding region. Agents of the St. Peters Indian Agency at the fort enforced the US policy of assimilating Native Americans into mainstream American society, asking them to give up subsistence hunting and cultivate the land. [19] Missionaries encouraged Native Americans to convert from their religion to Christianity. [19]
Under pressure from US officials [20] in a series of treaties, the Dakota ceded their land—which they consider to be living (a relative, and not property) [21]—first to the east and then to the west of the Mississippi, the river that runs through Minneapolis. [22] [c] Dakota leaders twice refused to sign the next treaty until they were paid for the previous one. [34]In the space of sixty years, the US had seized all of Dakota land. In the decades following these treaty signings, the federal US government rarely honored their terms. [35] After closing in 1858, the University of Minnesota was revived using land taken from the Dakota people under the Morrill Land-Grant Acts in 1862. [36] [d]
At the beginning of the American Civil War, annuity payments owed in June 1862 to the Dakota by treaty were late, causing acute hunger among the Dakota. [39] [e] Facing starvation [41] a faction of the Dakota declared war in August and killed settlers. [42] Serving without any prior military experience, US commander Henry Sibley had raw recruits, [43] among them the only mounted troops were volunteers from Minneapolis and Saint Paul with no military experience. [44] The war went on for six weeks in the Minnesota River valley. [45] Some terrified American settlers traveled 80 miles (130 km) away from the massacre to Minneapolis for safety. [46] After a US kangaroo court, [47] 38 Dakota men died by hanging as ordered by Abraham Lincoln. [45] The army marched 1,700 non-hostile Dakota men, women, children, and elders 150 miles (240 km) to a concentration camp at Fort Snelling. [48] Minneapolitans reportedly threatened more than once to attack the camp. [49] In 1863, the US "abrogated and annulled" all treaties with the Dakota. [50] With Governor Alexander Ramsey calling for their extermination, [51] most Dakota were exiled from Minnesota. [52]
While the Dakota were being expelled, Franklin Steele laid claim to the east bank of Saint Anthony Falls, [53] and John H. Stevens built a home on the west bank. [54] Residents had divergent ideas on names for their community. In 1852, Charles Hoag proposed combining the Dakota word for 'water' (mni [f]) with the Greek word for 'city' (polis), yielding Minneapolis. In 1851 after a meeting of the Minnesota Territorial Legislature, leaders of east bank St. Anthony lost their bid to move the capital from Saint Paul. [59] In a close vote, Saint Paul and Stillwater agreed to divide federal funding: [59] Saint Paul would be the capital, while Stillwater would build the prison. The St. Anthony contingent eventually won the state university. [59] In 1855 with a charter from the legislature, Steele and associates opened the first bridge across the Mississippi; the toll bridge cost pedestrians three cents ($0.98 in 2023). [60] In 1856, the territorial legislature authorized Minneapolis as a town on the Mississippi's west bank. [55] Minneapolis was incorporated as a city in 1867, and in 1872, it merged with St. Anthony. [61]
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The Treaty of 1837 gave 1,062,334 acres, more than any other land cession, to 33 LGUs
- SusanLesch ( talk) 18:41, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
After the Treaty of 1837, the US gave Mdewakanton monies to missionaries earmarked for education, and, in protest, fewer than ten Dakota students attended.Only problem there is that Wikipedia seems to almost ignore the Dakota, don't you think? - SusanLesch ( talk) 13:33, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Just a few points after a cursory glance:
It is common practice for sports sections to include discussions of teams that are within the metro area, even if the team's home venue is outside the city limits.The city was built where it is because of the falls and the fort. To paraphrase Johnnie Cochran, "If you omit the fort, you must omit the city." - SusanLesch ( talk) 23:34, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Oncamera, would you mind checking for instances of "tribe" in the article? There are two, both written before you told us about WP:Indigenous. The second one about the pharmacy and "federally recognized tribes" might be OK, but I'm not sure about the US government term. Thank you. - SusanLesch ( talk) 19:32, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
Malvoliox, thank you for introducing and sourcing BCR. Why did you choose to erase Wikipedia's article about Canopy, a highly successful Black-owned business, and put BCR, the generic name of a bureaucratic program (that Canopy operates!), in its place? Do you have an affiliation to one of these organizations or some other in Minneapolis? Thank you. - SusanLesch ( talk) 14:07, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
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I request that the first two lead sentences for Minneapolis be changed as follows in accordance to consistency and the standard formatting of the most populous cities in their respective states (E.g. Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, etc):
Minneapolis ( /ˌmɪniˈæpəlɪs/ ⓘ MIN-ee-AP-ə-lis), officially the City of Minneapolis, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Hennepin County. As of the 2020 census, the population was 429,954. Cleter ( talk) 00:28, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
Comment - Might I suggest a compromise? We could potentially combine elements from both formats while also retaining the clarity that the current format offers. For example, we could start with Cleter's proposed format but slightly modify it. Here's a potential revision:
'Minneapolis (/ˌmɪniˈæpəlɪs/), officially the City of Minneapolis, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Hennepin County. As of the 2020 census, its population is 429,954.
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Somewhat off-topic: does including "officially the City of Minneapolis" bring value here? It's substantially similar to the article name, and forces the words "city" and "Minneapolis" to be repeated. It feels like something that should be reserved for the history section or a new "name" section. We removed it from Milwaukee for similar reasons. See MOS:LEADALT. (Regardless, it also needs a citation to support that it's the official name. The current citation only supports the census' usage of the phrase.) Ed [talk] [OMT] 19:03, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
I (once again) request that the first two lead sentences for Minneapolis be changed as follows in accordance to consistency and the standard formatting of the most populous cities in their respective states (E.g. Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Boston ((featured)), etc):
Minneapolis, officially the City of Minneapolis, is a city in
the state of
Minnesota and the
county seat of
Hennepin County. As of the
2020 census the population was 429,954, making it the state's
most populous city.
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I (once again) request that the first two lead sentences for Minneapolis be changed as follows in accordance to consistency and the standard formatting of the most populous cities in their respective states (E.g. Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Boston ((featured)), etc):
Minneapolis ( /ˌmɪniˈæpəlɪs/ ⓘ MIN-ee-AP-ə-lis), officially the City of Minneapolis, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and the county seat of Hennepin County. As of the 2020 census, the population was 429,954. Cleter ( talk) 00:28, 20 January 2024 (UTC)
there's no "standard" that must be followed when writing the lead sentenceyeah I don't believe in a standard either, but that doesn't mean one shouldn't seek improvements to an existing version (after all, that's the point of Wikipedia). Secondly, just how is it better organized? 🅲🅻🅴🆃🅴🆁 ( a word) 00:09, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
Hi, Timothy2b. The old climate data is outdated, and based on averages ending in 1990. I restored current NOWData (1873 to 2023). - SusanLesch ( talk) 13:42, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
Further, we have to decide whether we want current data. If we want current data we must agree to update it annually, something SandyGeorgia would oppose. I need to know if this decision applies to all FAs or not. - SusanLesch ( talk) 17:05, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
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I saw some edits over this weather box, but I do see some changes being needed. Last Monday, Minneapolis recorded a new record high for the month of February (65 F)
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Climate data for Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, Minnesota (1991–2020 normals, [a] extremes 1872–present) [b] | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °F (°C) | 58 (14) |
65 (18) |
83 (28) |
95 (35) |
106 (41) |
104 (40) |
108 (42) |
103 (39) |
104 (40) |
92 (33) |
77 (25) |
68 (20) |
108 (42) |
Mean maximum °F (°C) | 42.5 (5.8) |
46.7 (8.2) |
64.7 (18.2) |
79.7 (26.5) |
88.7 (31.5) |
93.3 (34.1) |
94.4 (34.7) |
91.7 (33.2) |
88.3 (31.3) |
80.1 (26.7) |
62.1 (16.7) |
47.1 (8.4) |
96.4 (35.8) |
Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 23.6 (−4.7) |
28.5 (−1.9) |
41.7 (5.4) |
56.6 (13.7) |
69.2 (20.7) |
79.0 (26.1) |
83.4 (28.6) |
80.7 (27.1) |
72.9 (22.7) |
58.1 (14.5) |
41.9 (5.5) |
28.8 (−1.8) |
55.4 (13.0) |
Daily mean °F (°C) | 16.2 (−8.8) |
20.6 (−6.3) |
33.3 (0.7) |
47.1 (8.4) |
59.5 (15.3) |
69.7 (20.9) |
74.3 (23.5) |
71.8 (22.1) |
63.5 (17.5) |
49.5 (9.7) |
34.8 (1.6) |
22.0 (−5.6) |
46.9 (8.3) |
Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 8.8 (−12.9) |
12.7 (−10.7) |
24.9 (−3.9) |
37.5 (3.1) |
49.9 (9.9) |
60.4 (15.8) |
65.3 (18.5) |
62.8 (17.1) |
54.2 (12.3) |
40.9 (4.9) |
27.7 (−2.4) |
15.2 (−9.3) |
38.4 (3.6) |
Mean minimum °F (°C) | −14.7 (−25.9) |
−8 (−22) |
2.7 (−16.3) |
21.9 (−5.6) |
35.7 (2.1) |
47.3 (8.5) |
54.5 (12.5) |
52.3 (11.3) |
38.2 (3.4) |
26.0 (−3.3) |
9.2 (−12.7) |
−7.1 (−21.7) |
−16.9 (−27.2) |
Record low °F (°C) | −41 (−41) |
−33 (−36) |
−32 (−36) |
2 (−17) |
18 (−8) |
34 (1) |
43 (6) |
39 (4) |
26 (−3) |
10 (−12) |
−25 (−32) |
−39 (−39) |
−41 (−41) |
Average precipitation inches (mm) | 0.89 (23) |
0.87 (22) |
1.68 (43) |
2.91 (74) |
3.91 (99) |
4.58 (116) |
4.06 (103) |
4.34 (110) |
3.02 (77) |
2.58 (66) |
1.61 (41) |
1.17 (30) |
31.62 (803) |
Average snowfall inches (cm) | 11.0 (28) |
9.5 (24) |
8.2 (21) |
3.5 (8.9) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.8 (2.0) |
6.8 (17) |
11.4 (29) |
51.2 (130) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in) | 9.6 | 7.8 | 9.0 | 11.2 | 12.4 | 11.8 | 10.4 | 9.8 | 9.3 | 9.5 | 8.3 | 9.7 | 118.8 |
Average snowy days (≥ 0.1 in) | 9.3 | 7.3 | 5.2 | 2.4 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.6 | 4.5 | 8.8 | 38.2 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 69.9 | 69.5 | 67.4 | 60.3 | 60.4 | 63.8 | 64.8 | 67.9 | 70.7 | 68.3 | 72.6 | 74.1 | 67.5 |
Average dew point °F (°C) | 4.1 (−15.5) |
9.5 (−12.5) |
20.7 (−6.3) |
31.6 (−0.2) |
43.5 (6.4) |
54.7 (12.6) |
60.1 (15.6) |
58.3 (14.6) |
49.8 (9.9) |
37.9 (3.3) |
25.0 (−3.9) |
11.1 (−11.6) |
33.9 (1.0) |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 156.7 | 178.3 | 217.5 | 242.1 | 295.2 | 321.9 | 350.5 | 307.2 | 233.2 | 181.0 | 112.8 | 114.3 | 2,710.7 |
Percent possible sunshine | 55 | 61 | 59 | 60 | 64 | 69 | 74 | 71 | 62 | 53 | 39 | 42 | 59 |
Average ultraviolet index | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Source 1: NOAA (relative humidity, dew point and sun 1961–1990) [2] [3] [4] | |||||||||||||
Source 2: Weather Atlas (UV) [5] |
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Greetings. As the last step of FAR, the lead needs to be inclusive of all sections in the article. I propose the following. Your comments? - SusanLesch ( talk) 14:30, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
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Minneapolis, [c] officially the City of Minneapolis, [2] is a city in the state of Minnesota and the county seat of Hennepin County. [3] With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. [4] It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota. Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and the surrounding area are collectively known as the Twin Cities, a metropolitan area home to 3.69 million inhabitants. [5] Minneapolis is built on an artesian aquifer on flat terrain, and is known for cold, snowy winters and warm, humid summers. Nicknamed the "City of Lakes", [6] Minneapolis is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks, and waterfalls. One of the most extensive public park systems in the US is connected by the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway. The site of Minneapolis was originally inhabited by Dakota people. European settlement began along Saint Anthony Falls—the only natural waterfall on the Mississippi River [7]—on land north of Fort Snelling. The city's early growth was attributed to its proximity to the fort and the falls providing power for industrial activity. Minneapolis was the 19th-century lumber and flour milling capital of the world, and as home to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has preserved its financial clout into the 21st century. A Depression-era labor strike brought about federal worker protections. Minneapolis played a role in the development of supercomputers and mobile refrigeration, and is the birthplace of General Mills, the Pillsbury brand, and the Target Corporation. Minneapolis offers literary presses and publishers; James Beard award-winning chefs; ethnic museums; and US pond hockey championships. The city's arts institutions include the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Guthrie Theater. Four professional sports teams play downtown. Prince is survived by his favorite venue, the First Avenue nightclub. Minneapolis is home to the University of Minnesota's main campus. The city's public transport is provided by Metro Transit and the international airport, serving the Twin Cities region, is located towards the south on the city limits. Most of the world's religions are reflected in the city, which upholds more than 50 denominations and religions, and many Minneapolitans are volunteers. Despite its well-regarded quality of life, [8] Minneapolis faces a pressing challenge in the form of stark disparities among its residents—arguably the most critical issue confronting the city in the 21st century. [9] Governed by a mayor-council system, Minneapolis has a political landscape dominated by the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), with Jacob Frey serving as mayor since 2018. - SusanLesch ( talk) 14:30, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
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Minneapolis, [d] officially the City of Minneapolis, [2] is a city in the state of Minnesota and the county seat of Hennepin County. [3] With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. [4] It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota. Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and the surrounding area are collectively known as the Twin Cities, a metropolitan area home to 3.69 million inhabitants. [11] Minneapolis is built on an artesian aquifer on flat terrain, and is known for cold, snowy winters and warm, humid summers. Nicknamed the "City of Lakes", [6] Minneapolis is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks, and waterfalls. The city's extensive public park system is connected by the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway.
Dakota people originally inhabited the site of today's Minneapolis. European settlement began north of Fort Snelling along Saint Anthony Falls—the only natural waterfall on the Mississippi River. [7] The city's early growth was attributed to its proximity to the fort and the falls providing power for industrial activity. Minneapolis was the 19th-century lumber and flour milling capital of the world, and as home to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has preserved its financial clout into the 21st century. A Minneapolis Depression-era labor strike brought about federal worker protections. Work in Minneapolis contributed to the computing industry, and the city is the birthplace of General Mills, the Pillsbury brand, Target Corporation, and of Thermo King mobile refrigeration.
The city's major arts institutions include the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Guthrie Theater. Four professional sports teams play downtown. Prince is survived by his favorite venue, the First Avenue nightclub. Minneapolis is home to the University of Minnesota's main campus. The city's public transport is provided by Metro Transit and the international airport, serving the Twin Cities region, is located towards the south on the city limits.
Residents adhere to more than fifty religions, and thousands choose to volunteer their time. Despite its well-regarded quality of life, [12] Minneapolis faces a pressing challenge in the form of stark disparities among its residents—arguably the most critical issue confronting the city in the 21st century. [9] Governed by a mayor-council system, Minneapolis has a political landscape dominated by the Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), with Jacob Frey serving as mayor since 2018.
Oncamera, please see what you think of the above. Do you think it's better? - SusanLesch ( talk) 19:53, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
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GNIS
was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).By spreading the wealth to its poorest neighborhoods, the metro area provides more-equal services in low-income places, and keeps quality of life high just about everywhere.
By spreading the wealth to its poorest neighborhoods, the metro area provides more-equal services in low-income places, and keeps quality of life high just about everywhere.
Hey everyone! I am planning to make some changes here and these to Minneapolis's page. Please feel free to let me know if I messed up something because this is my first time editing on wikipedia. My plan is to maybe update the different cuisines that have entered (somali, indian, and so on). The list of “sister cities” needs to be updated based on the new information from [1] — Preceding unsigned comment added by Apurnuh ( talk • contribs) 23:11, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
@ Magnolia677: Thank you for your edit. I will reword the entry accordingly; please note though, the US Patent Office says the company was incorporated in Minneapolis. - SusanLesch ( talk) 20:16, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
Excuse me,
Magnolia677. There's no improvement after your changes. Why single out one missionary who may have been one of the first White people to see the falls but is known for staying at
Mille Lacs Lake nowhere near Minneapolis, and skip over Britain's arrival? In the same stroke, you chopped out every other person. Your edit summary is peculiar, Minneapolis was not the Dakota "homeland"
. The paragraph you just removed explains that indeed it was. I suggest you read Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota by Westerman and White if you have a disagreement with that.
You wrote, This is the only source that specifically mentions Minneapolis. This is sourced content, please discuss. You don't own this article.
First, this is ludicrous. Your choice of sources is fine but cannot stand up to those that were already used in this article. Why don't you add yours to Further reading?
Works cited gives you dozens of sources that mention Minneapolis. The page you cite says up front, It is a time dominated by the economy of fur trading, first by the French, then the British, and finally Americans.
But you chose to skip the British (and for some reason, you chose to cherry pick from a web page instead of reading and digesting the sources we already use). Second, you don't own this article any more than anyone else does.
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Why are you trying to make big changes today? We haven't heard anything from you for four months since you asked to include The Fall of Minneapolis on November 20, 2023 - SusanLesch ( talk) 23:59, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
@ Oncamera: With this edit you changed a section heading from "Dakota people" to "Dakota homeland". This source includes a map of the Dakota traditional territory, and also states--with regard to the "Dakota homeland"--that the Dakota controlled a territory "that stretched from the Upper Mississippi River to the Middle Missouri River". How is it that you view Minneapolis as the Dakota "homeland"? Magnolia677 ( talk) 10:59, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
I don't know if there's someone who wants to find a version of this photo that can be successfully uploaded to the Wikicommons, but I think this early photo of Dakota tipi village in front of the
John H Stevens House would be a great addition to this article, as seen in this
Star Tribune piece. On the west side of the river in Minneapolis, John H. Stevens built the first home there in 1850 and initially platted the city in 1854. Stevens was the first authorized resident in what would become Minneapolis. He was allowed to occupy the site, then part of the Fort Snelling military reservation, in exchange for providing a ferry service to the St. Anthony side of the river.
I've seen the photo captioned as "1854 photo Indian camp on site of Bridge Square, lower Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. With frame house of "Col." John H. Stevens in left background Vintage 8x10 Photograph" on other sites.
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Daguerreotype view of Native American tipis and the John Harrington Stevens House on ground that would later become the Gateway District of Minneapolis, Minnesota, c. 1852-1855. By Tallmadge Elwell.oncamera (talk page) 22:52, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
Should the Minneapolis article begin its first section with A) an overview of the Native Americans who lived in the area (as it does now) with the heading "Dakota homeland, city founded", or B) the first European to view the area that became Minneapolis (as it does in this version) under the heading "Dakota people, city founded"? - SusanLesch ( talk) 23:15, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
About six Native American nations inhabited Minnesota, and in modern times, two nations dominated: the Dakota (one tribe of the Sioux nation) and the Ojibwe (also known as Chippewa, one tribe of the Anishinaabe nations). Evidence says the Dakota were state residents in or before 1000 AD. Dakota are the only inhabitants who claimed no other land; they have no traditions of having immigrated and their site of creation is at nearby Bdóte. The Ojibwe migrated west from the Atlantic states to northern Minnesota where they displaced many of the Dakota people by the 17th century.
In 1680, French explorer Louis Hennepin went through what was to become Minneapolis, and named St. Anthony Falls. Hennepin described the Dakota there as "cooking in earthen vessels, living in bark lodges, eating wild rice cooked with dried blueberries, and hunting bison on the prairies". (removed)
One centers on Mille Lacs Lake, the same place in east-central Minnesota where Father Hennepin—the first European to see Owámniyomni and who renamed it Saint Anthony Falls after his patron saint—writes that the Dakota held him captive in 1680.- SusanLesch ( talk) 22:48, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
Hi, PersusjCP. Great to meet you. I think you might enjoy the second paragraph of this article by Bruce White. It's the clearest and shortest explanation that Minneapolis is the Dakota homeland that I've seen so far. - SusanLesch ( talk) 22:20, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
I agree that "Dakota homeland" is not the greatest title for that section as it is too specific and broad at the same time). No worries on WP:RS. Tom Weber says the same thing in Minneapolis: An Urban Biography (Chapter 1). Dr. White is a subject matter expert, who won a Minnesota Book Award and another prize with Gwen Westerman for Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota which I recommend. Take care. - SusanLesch ( talk) 22:29, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
Dakota are the only inhabitants who claimed no other land; [1] they have no traditions of having immigrated and their site of creation is at nearby Bdóte. [2] [a]I'd make only one correction to what we have there: omit the word "nearby". - SusanLesch ( talk) 01:39, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
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I need some help sourcing the Ojibwe's arrival. Treuer [1] is a good source but he seems partisan to me. I'm willing to go with either "Dakota homeland" (which Oncamera documented as used by the majority in the region) or "Dakota birthplace" (a new heading proposed to avoid all the disagreement). I hope this satisfies SounderBruce and Magnolia677. Comments welcome. - SusanLesch ( talk) 15:35, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
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Two indigenous nations inhabited the area now called Minneapolis. [2] Archaeologists have evidence to say at least since 1000 A.D., [3] they were the Dakota (one tribe of the Sioux nation), [4] and, after the 1700s, [5] the Ojibwe (also known as Chippewa, one tribe of the Anishinaabe nations). [6] Dakota people have different stories to explain their creation. [7] One centers on Mille Lacs Lake, [8] the same place in east-central Minnesota where Father Hennepin—the first European to see Owámniyomni and who renamed it Saint Anthony Falls after his patron saint [9]—writes that the Dakota held him captive [10] in 1680. [11] More widely accepted, another story says the Dakota emerged from Bdóte [7]—the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers just south of Minneapolis. [a] Dakota are the only inhabitants of the Minneapolis area who claimed no other land; [16] they have no traditions of having immigrated. [17] In the Dakota language, the city's name is Bde Óta Othúŋwe ('Many Lakes Town'). [b]
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Two Indigenous nations inhabited the area now called Minneapolis. [1] Archaeologists have evidence to say at least since 1000 A.D., [2] they are the Dakota (one half of the Sioux nation), [3] and, after the 1700s, [4] the Ojibwe (also known as Chippewa, members of the Anishinaabe nations). [5] Dakota people have different stories to explain their creation. [6] One widely accepted story says the Dakota emerged from Bdóte, [6] the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers. Dakota are the only inhabitants of the Minneapolis area who claimed no other land; [7] they have no traditions of having immigrated. [8] In 1680, cleric Louis Hennepin, who was probably the first European to see the Minneapolis waterfall the Dakota people call Owámniyomni, renamed it the Falls of St. Anthony of Padua for his patron saint. [13] In the Dakota language, the city's name is Bde Óta Othúŋwe ('Many Lakes Town'). [b]
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Hello fellow editors, we are proposing some expansions and improvements to the Minneapolis article to enhance its comprehensiveness and accuracy:
We plan to add more details about the city's geography, including its location within Minnesota, topography, and notable natural features like lakes, rivers, and parks.
The article could use additional demographic information on population size, ethnic/racial makeup, languages spoken, and religious affiliations in the city.
We want to substantially expand the Culture section by adding specifics on the arts, music, literature, theater, festivals, cuisine, and other significant cultural institutions or traditions in Minneapolis.
We will highlight more of the city's notable landmarks, attractions, tourist destinations, historic sites, museums, sports venues, and other points of interest.
We plan to rely primarily on sources from city/state government websites, travel guides, newspaper articles, and scholarly publications when making these additions. Please let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions related to expanding the Minneapolis article in these areas. We look forward to improving the article's coverage together.
Suchithra_moolinti, Kambh021 - Tagging co-editors working on this along with me. Sireesha-p23 ( talk) 22:30, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
Ikraanh31, are you by any chance a student doing your homework on Wikipedia? Wikipedia will not accept unsourced material. Please read WP:Student assignments. Thank you for your interest in Minneapolis. One item you added has been included. - SusanLesch ( talk) 23:07, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
@ Magnolia677: Wikipedia needs help on dozens of articles and we seem to be hung up on this one. This article is on a list of stalled FARs. Would you please provide your improvements here to "the third, forth, and fifth paragraph"? - SusanLesch ( talk) 17:07, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
Magnolia677, the effort to finish this FAR has occupied my time along with SandyGeorgia's and Hog Farm's for years. Their time is too valuable to spend on arguments. As other editors have in the preceding RfC, I am trying to accommodate you, and made a working copy for you to edit whenever you decide "the time" comes. It skips all context outside Fort Snelling and Minneapolis, and I'm afraid becomes an incomprehensible mass. Maybe you can fix it. If you can do that, I'd be happy to place it in the article without any "pushback", "immediate" reversion, and "protracted dispute resolution". There is no WP:DEADLINE. - SusanLesch ( talk) 15:19, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
Oncamera and PersusjCP, do you have any comments on this version of the first section? I trimmed out a lot. The exception is I kept in the war in 1862, even though it was in the Minnesota River valley and not in Minneapolis, because otherwise it makes no sense to march a population to Fort Snelling and then banish them. I don't anticipate we'll get anything from Magnolia677 soon (in the above section). Thank you for your time and expertise. - SusanLesch ( talk) 18:41, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
Two Indigenous nations inhabited the area now called Minneapolis. [1] Archaeologists have evidence to say at least since 1000 A.D., [2] they are the Dakota (one half of the Sioux nation), [3] and, after the 1700s, [4] the Ojibwe (also known as Chippewa, members of the Anishinaabe nations). [5] Dakota people have different stories to explain their creation. [6] One widely accepted story says the Dakota emerged from Bdóte, [6] the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers. Dakota are the only inhabitants of the Minneapolis area who claimed no other land; [7] they have no traditions of having immigrated. [8] In 1680, cleric Louis Hennepin, who was probably the first European to see the Minneapolis waterfall the Dakota people call Owámniyomni, renamed it the Falls of St. Anthony of Padua for his patron saint. [9] In the Dakota language, the city's name is Bde Óta Othúŋwe ('Many Lakes Town'). [a]
Purchasing most of modern-day Minneapolis, Zebulon Pike made the 1805 Treaty of St. Peter with the Dakota. [b] Pike bought a 9-square-mile (23 km2) strip of land—coinciding with the sacred place of Dakota origin [6]—on the Mississippi south of Saint Anthony Falls, [15] with the agreement the US would build a military fort and trading post there and the Dakota would retain their land use rights. [16] In 1819, the US Army built Fort Snelling [17] to direct Native American trade away from British-Canadian traders, and to deter warring between the Dakota and Ojibwe in northern Minnesota. [18] The fort attracted traders, settlers, and merchants, spurring growth in the surrounding region. Agents of the St. Peters Indian Agency at the fort enforced the US policy of assimilating Native Americans into mainstream American society, asking them to give up subsistence hunting and cultivate the land. [19] Missionaries encouraged Native Americans to convert from their religion to Christianity. [19]
Under pressure from US officials [20] in a series of treaties, the Dakota ceded their land—which they consider to be living (a relative, and not property) [21]—first to the east and then to the west of the Mississippi, the river that runs through Minneapolis. [22] [c] Dakota leaders twice refused to sign the next treaty until they were paid for the previous one. [34]In the space of sixty years, the US had seized all of Dakota land. In the decades following these treaty signings, the federal US government rarely honored their terms. [35] After closing in 1858, the University of Minnesota was revived using land taken from the Dakota people under the Morrill Land-Grant Acts in 1862. [36] [d]
At the beginning of the American Civil War, annuity payments owed in June 1862 to the Dakota by treaty were late, causing acute hunger among the Dakota. [39] [e] Facing starvation [41] a faction of the Dakota declared war in August and killed settlers. [42] Serving without any prior military experience, US commander Henry Sibley had raw recruits, [43] among them the only mounted troops were volunteers from Minneapolis and Saint Paul with no military experience. [44] The war went on for six weeks in the Minnesota River valley. [45] Some terrified American settlers traveled 80 miles (130 km) away from the massacre to Minneapolis for safety. [46] After a US kangaroo court, [47] 38 Dakota men died by hanging as ordered by Abraham Lincoln. [45] The army marched 1,700 non-hostile Dakota men, women, children, and elders 150 miles (240 km) to a concentration camp at Fort Snelling. [48] Minneapolitans reportedly threatened more than once to attack the camp. [49] In 1863, the US "abrogated and annulled" all treaties with the Dakota. [50] With Governor Alexander Ramsey calling for their extermination, [51] most Dakota were exiled from Minnesota. [52]
While the Dakota were being expelled, Franklin Steele laid claim to the east bank of Saint Anthony Falls, [53] and John H. Stevens built a home on the west bank. [54] Residents had divergent ideas on names for their community. In 1852, Charles Hoag proposed combining the Dakota word for 'water' (mni [f]) with the Greek word for 'city' (polis), yielding Minneapolis. In 1851 after a meeting of the Minnesota Territorial Legislature, leaders of east bank St. Anthony lost their bid to move the capital from Saint Paul. [59] In a close vote, Saint Paul and Stillwater agreed to divide federal funding: [59] Saint Paul would be the capital, while Stillwater would build the prison. The St. Anthony contingent eventually won the state university. [59] In 1855 with a charter from the legislature, Steele and associates opened the first bridge across the Mississippi; the toll bridge cost pedestrians three cents ($0.98 in 2023). [60] In 1856, the territorial legislature authorized Minneapolis as a town on the Mississippi's west bank. [55] Minneapolis was incorporated as a city in 1867, and in 1872, it merged with St. Anthony. [61]
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was invoked but never defined (see the
help page).These treaties, which were almost wholly dishonored by the U.S. government...
The Treaty of 1837 gave 1,062,334 acres, more than any other land cession, to 33 LGUs
- SusanLesch ( talk) 18:41, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
After the Treaty of 1837, the US gave Mdewakanton monies to missionaries earmarked for education, and, in protest, fewer than ten Dakota students attended.Only problem there is that Wikipedia seems to almost ignore the Dakota, don't you think? - SusanLesch ( talk) 13:33, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Just a few points after a cursory glance:
It is common practice for sports sections to include discussions of teams that are within the metro area, even if the team's home venue is outside the city limits.The city was built where it is because of the falls and the fort. To paraphrase Johnnie Cochran, "If you omit the fort, you must omit the city." - SusanLesch ( talk) 23:34, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
Oncamera, would you mind checking for instances of "tribe" in the article? There are two, both written before you told us about WP:Indigenous. The second one about the pharmacy and "federally recognized tribes" might be OK, but I'm not sure about the US government term. Thank you. - SusanLesch ( talk) 19:32, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
Malvoliox, thank you for introducing and sourcing BCR. Why did you choose to erase Wikipedia's article about Canopy, a highly successful Black-owned business, and put BCR, the generic name of a bureaucratic program (that Canopy operates!), in its place? Do you have an affiliation to one of these organizations or some other in Minneapolis? Thank you. - SusanLesch ( talk) 14:07, 26 April 2024 (UTC)