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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 2282492" data-attributes="member: 246624">I&#039;ve become very interested in Minnesota history, and by interested I mean annoyed in many cases.&nbsp; The first thing white Minnesotans did was to exploit the Indians.&nbsp; The second thing they did was to throw the Indians out, move them to reservations, kill them, and otherwise treat them very poorly.&nbsp; Meanwhile, they got going on the process of cutting down 90 percent of the trees in the state.&nbsp; Even New York State, where I grew up, did not have such wanton destruction of the forests, and Whitie had two hundred more years to do it there.&nbsp; They also killed off most of the wolves.&nbsp; Oh, and both wolves and Indians had actual monetary bounties on them.&nbsp; Both Indians and Wolves were killed for bounty in times recent enough that the average old Minnesotan white person may have had a parent or grandparent involved in that business.&nbsp; &nbsp; I&#039;m also very interested in Sherlock Holmes.&nbsp; My interest is partly because they are fun stories, but it goes deeper than that.&nbsp; I&#039;m interested in semiotics, and the Holmes stories have been investigated and discussed in that context.&nbsp; I&#039;m interested in race and racism, and the Holmes stories are a window int the inter-ethnic attitudes of colonial period England.&nbsp; I&#039;m interested in South Africa, and these stories overlap in time with major events related to the British and South Africa, including the largest and most intense war ever fought by Britain to date.&nbsp; And so on.&nbsp; So, how do these things relate?&nbsp; Well ... &nbsp;<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/sherlock_holmes_in_minnesota.php" target="_blank">Read the rest of this post...</a> | <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/sherlock_holmes_in_minnesota.php#commentsArea" target="_blank">Read the comments on this post...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/iss1ctprRu8" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/iss1ctprRu8/sherlock_holmes_in_minnesota.php" target="_blank">More...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geek, post: 2282492, member: 246624"] I've become very interested in Minnesota history, and by interested I mean annoyed in many cases. The first thing white Minnesotans did was to exploit the Indians. The second thing they did was to throw the Indians out, move them to reservations, kill them, and otherwise treat them very poorly. Meanwhile, they got going on the process of cutting down 90 percent of the trees in the state. Even New York State, where I grew up, did not have such wanton destruction of the forests, and Whitie had two hundred more years to do it there. They also killed off most of the wolves. Oh, and both wolves and Indians had actual monetary bounties on them. Both Indians and Wolves were killed for bounty in times recent enough that the average old Minnesotan white person may have had a parent or grandparent involved in that business. I'm also very interested in Sherlock Holmes. My interest is partly because they are fun stories, but it goes deeper than that. I'm interested in semiotics, and the Holmes stories have been investigated and discussed in that context. I'm interested in race and racism, and the Holmes stories are a window int the inter-ethnic attitudes of colonial period England. I'm interested in South Africa, and these stories overlap in time with major events related to the British and South Africa, including the largest and most intense war ever fought by Britain to date. And so on. So, how do these things relate? Well ... [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/sherlock_holmes_in_minnesota.php"]Read the rest of this post...[/URL] | [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/sherlock_holmes_in_minnesota.php#commentsArea"]Read the comments on this post...[/URL][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/iss1ctprRu8[/IMG] [url=http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~3/iss1ctprRu8/sherlock_holmes_in_minnesota.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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