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[Patty Guerrero (pattypax]

Hi,  This Tuesday, Feb. 26,  we have a movie to see----Margin Call---a movie 
staring Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons.  The movie is a thriller set in high stakes 
world of the financial industry of Wall Street.  Filled with greed and 
corruption and people you can actually like but----


The 4 Tuesdays of March will all be on the Dakota-US War of 1862:


>> March 5----Carole Julian will present background information and lead a
>> discussion on the 1862 Dakota conflict. Primary sources of information are
>> North Country, the Making of Minnesota by Mary Wingerd, and MNI Sota Makoce
>> by White and Wasicuna.  Julian will also share her personal story of having
>> attended the December 26th commemoration events of
>> the mass hangings of 38 Dakota men in Mankato  for the past several years.
>> 
>> March 12--- Guest,  Dr. Chris Mato Nunpa, DAKOTA Man from Yellow Medicine 
>> Community, near
>> Granite Falls, Minnesota    - Former Associate Professor, Indigenous Nations
>> & Dakota Studies.  He will discuss with us Selected Aspects of the Dakota-US
>> War of 1862   
>> 
>> 
>> March 19--Guest, Rhoda Gilman, Retired Historian of Minnesota Historical 
>> Society,
>> discusses her biography of Henry Sibley and his relations with the Dakota and
>> their treaties up to 1862.
>> 
>> March 26--Book Club and guest, Diane Wilson , author of  Spirit Car: Journey
>> To A Dakota Past.  This was chosen as book of the year to read by City of 
>> Minneapolis.

        Thanks,

        Patty

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