The Morrison County Historical Society is hosting the event Belle Prairie Seminary: Formal Education in Indian Country in the New Minnesota Territory.

Linda Louise Bryan is an independent scholar with an focus on Belle Prairie, the village just north of Little Falls that was founded at the time Minnesota Territory was also founded. The lives and times of the founding Ayers family are the subject of her  research into the complicated history of Ojibwe country in Minnesota and Wisconsin in the mid-19th Century. Bryan will discuss the Ayer school at Belle Prairie and its place within the larger history of white settlement, certain protestant missions, Winnebago and Ojibwe treaties, and the waning Indian trade.

The presentatation is at the Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum on Friday, March 5th starting at 10:30 a.m. This event is free and open to the public, though pre-registration is required. Both in-person and Zoom options are available.

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The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum, 2151 Lindbergh Dr S, Little Falls MN, 56345 or via Zoom.
Free, but registration is required. Call (320)632-4007 or email staff@morrisoncountyhistory.org to register.

Masks required at the in-person event.