These links are not meant to replace scholarly research, but to answer some questions and to get you started in learning more.

PLACE

“The Life and Times of Cloud Man: A Dakota Leader Faces His Changing World,” Ramsey County History, Ramsey County Historical Society, Vol. 36 No 1 (Spring 2001)
https://publishing.rchs.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/RCHS_Spring2001_Dietrich.pdf

From Past Canoe Event – For TEACHERS – A Packet
http://pieducators.com/sites/default/files/Mde-Maka-Ska-teacher-packet.pdf

Southwest Citizens
https://patch.com/minnesota/southwestminneapolis/historic-southwest-citizens-cloud-man

PLACE GENERAL

Google map
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bde+Maka+Ska/@44.9419314,-93.320914,14.99z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x87f6276f6f119547:0x1772290ec2cb0a31!8m2!3d44.945124!4d-93.3111786

Explore Minneapolis Parks and Recreation sites
https://www.minneapolisparks.org/parks__destinations/parks__lakes/

Fishing map of lake
http://www.gpsnauticalcharts.com/main/us_mn_27003100-bde-maka-ska-nautical-chart.html

Woyakapi Kin Ahdipi “Bringing the Story Home” Dissertation by Katherine Beane (Ahdipiwin)
http://hdl.handle.net/11299/185201

Students work on science and history of the lake:
http://www.startribune.com/breck-student-honored-for-project-mixing-indian-history-science/296822451/?refresh=true

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/03/24/bcst-grant-two-bulls-lake-calhoun-native-history

District 4 Mpls Parks map (does call the lake by the old name)
https://www.minneapolisparks.org/_asset/jdb7jd/district_4_map.pdf

District 6 Mpls. Parks Map (does call the lake by the old name)
https://www.minneapolisparks.org/_asset/95660l/district_6_map.pdf

Biggest fish caught in the lake : )
https://fishbrain.com/water/Ym-jeqCY/biggest-catches-in-lake-calhoun

General information
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bde_Maka_Ska

Department of Natural Resources – General Report
https://www.dnr.state.mn.us/lakefind/showreport.html?downum=27003100

Historyapolis – Names Matter the story of Bde Maka Ska
http://historyapolis.com/blog/2015/06/27/names-matter-the-story-of-bde-maka-ska/

PEOPLE

Dakota Culture

Dakota People
http://www.mnhs.org/fortsnelling/learn/native-americans/dakota-people

The Storytellers
http://www.citypages.com/news/kate-beane-and-carly-bad-heart-bull-the-storytellers/473018703

Ohiyesa (Eastman, Charles). An Indian Boyhood. McClure and Philips, 1902
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/337/337-h/337-h.htm

Meyer, R. W. History of the Santee Sioux: United States Indian Policy on Trial, Chapter 3: Civilizing the Sioux. Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press, 1993.

Pond, S. W. Two volunteer missionaries among the Dakotas: or, The story of the labors of Samuel W. and Gideon H. Pond. Boston and Chicago: Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society, 1893 https://archive.org/details/twovolunteers00pondrich/page/n7

Language

Book: 550 Dakota Verbs
https://birchbarkbooks.com/ojibwe-and-dakota/550-dakota-verbs

Messages

Gwen Westerman
https://wisdomwayscenter.org/gwen-nell-westerman-poems-spring-2018/

Book: Being Dakota
https://birchbarkbooks.com/CatalogueRetrieve.aspx?ProductID=265295&A=SearchResult&SearchID=11308921&ObjectID=265295&ObjectType=27

Book: Beloved Child – A Dakota Way of Life by Diane Wilson
https://birchbarkbooks.com/CatalogueRetrieve.aspx?ProductID=9701381&A=SearchResult&SearchID=11308922&ObjectID=9701381&ObjectType=27Book

Dakota Women’s Work: Creativity, Culture, and Exile by Colette A Hymen

https://birchbarkbooks.com/CatalogueRetrieve.aspx?ProductID=9685794&A=SearchResult&SearchID=11308922&ObjectID=9685794&ObjectType=27

PROJECT

Project History

Minneapolis Parks – Bde Maka Ska Park
https://www.minneapolisparks.org/parks__destinations/parks__lakes/bde_maka_ska_park/

News on Master Plan from 2017
https://www.minneapolisparks.org/news/2017/05/03/minneapolis_park_and_recreation_board_approves_calhounbde_maka_ska-harriet_master_plan_including_support_for_county_state_and_federal_process_to_change_name_of_lake_calhoun/

Trails and Park info
https://www.minneapolisparks.org/park_care__improvements/park_projects/current_projects/bde_maka_ska-harriet_trail_and_access_improvements/

GENERAL BACKGROUND

Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota Gwen Westerman and Bruce White pp 104-107 “Bde Maka Ska”
http://www.mnhs.org/mnhspress/books/mni-sota-makoce=

Woyakapi Kin Ahdipi “Bringing the Story Home” Dissertation by Katherine Beane (Ahdipiwin)
http://hdl.handle.net/11299/185201

The Relentless Business of Treaties: How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property, by Martin Case
https://birchbarkbooks.com/all-online-titles/the-relentless-business-of-treaties

Website developed to accompany the exhibit, “Treaties Matter” from Minnesota Humanities, Minnesota Indian Affairs Council and the Smithsonian
http://treatiesmatter.org

Resources for teachers
http://treatiesmatter.org/exhibit/educator/

Beginning site for learning about Dakota homeland from Dakota voices
http://bdotememorymap.org

Short video about the Bdote area
https://vimeo.com/23807332

Primary video and audio from an installation at Minnesota Historical Society: Cloudy Waters: Dakota Reflections on the River
https://vimeo.com/106965889

Pond, S. W. Two volunteer missionaries among the Dakotas: or, The story of the labors of Samuel W. and Gideon H. Pond. Boston and Chicago: Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Society, 1893
https://archive.org/details/twovolunteers00pondrich/page/n7

Ohiyesa (Eastman, Charles). An Indian Boyhood. McClure and Philips, 1902
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/337/337-h/337-h.htm

Carroll, J.L. Who Was Jane Lamont? Anglo-Dakota Daughters in Early Minnesota,” Minnesota History, Spring 2005
http://collections.mnhs.org/mnhistorymagazine/articles/59/v59i05p184-196.pdf

Pond, Samuel. The Dakota or Sioux in Minnesota as they were in 1834. St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1986.