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"Minnetonka first started selling its “Thunderbird” moccasins in 1965. Now, for the first time, they’ve been redesigned by a Native American designer.

It’s one step in the company’s larger work to deal with its history of cultural appropriation. The Minneapolis-based company launched in the 1940s as a small business making souvenirs for roadside gift shops in the region—including Native American-inspired moccasins, though the business wasn’t started or run by Native Americans. The moccasins soon became its biggest seller.

[Photo: Minnetonka]

Adrienne Benjamin, an Anishanaabe artist and community activist who became the company’s “reconciliation advisor,” was initially reluctant when a tribal elder approached her about meeting with the company. Other activists had dismissed the idea that the company would do the work to truly transform. But Benjamin agreed to the meeting, and the conversation convinced her to move forward.

“I sensed a genuine commitment to positive change,” she says. “They had really done their homework as far as understanding and acknowledging the wrong and the appropriation. I think they knew for a long time that things needed to get better, and they just weren’t sure what a first step was.”

Pictured: Lucie Skjefte and son Animikii [Photo: Minnetonka]

In 2020, Minnetonka publicly apologized “for having benefited from selling Native-inspired designs without directly honoring Native culture or communities.” It also said that it was actively recruiting Native Americans to work at the company, reexamining its branding, looking for Native-owned businesses to partner with, continuing to support Native American nonprofits, and that it planned to collaborate with Native American artists and designers.

Benjamin partnered with the company on the first collaboration, a collection of hand-beaded hats, and then recruited the Minneapolis-based designer Lucie Skjefte, a citizen of the Red Lake Nation, who designed the beadwork for another moccasin style and a pair of slippers for the brand. Skjefte says that she felt comfortable working with the company knowing that it had already done work with Benjamin on reconciliation. And she wasn’t a stranger to the brand. “Our grandmothers and our mothers would always look for moccasins in a clutch kind of situation where they didn’t have a pair ready and available to make on their own—then they would buy Minnetonka mocs and walk into a traditional pow wow and wear them,” she says. Her mother, she says, who passed away in 2019, would have been “immensely proud” that Skjefte’s design work was part of the moccasins—and on the new version of the Thunderbird moccasin, one of the company’s top-selling styles.

[Photo: Minnetonka]

“I started thinking about all of those stories, and what resonated with me visually,” Skjefte says. The redesign, she says, is much more detailed and authentic than the previous version. “Through the redesign and beading process, we are actively reclaiming and reconnecting our Animikii or Thunderbird motif with its Indigenous roots,” she says. Skjefte will earn royalties for the design, and Minnetonka will also separately donate a portion of the sale of each shoe to Mni Sota Fund, a nonprofit that helps Native Americans in Minnesota get training and capital for home ownership and entrepreneurship.

Some companies go a step farther—Manitobah Mukluks, based in Canada, has an Indigenous founder and more than half Indigenous staff. (While Minnetonka is actively recruiting more Native American workers, the company says that employees self-report race and it can’t share any data about its current number of Indigenous employees.) Beyond its own line of products, Manitobah also has an online Indigenous Market that features artists who earn 100% of the profit for their work.

White Bear Moccasins, a Native-owned-and-made brand in Montana, makes moccasins from bison hide. Each custom pair can take six to eight hours to make; the shoes cost hundreds of dollars, though they can also be repaired and last as long as a lifetime, says owner Shauna White Bear. In interviews, White Bear has said that she wants “to take our craft back,” from companies like Minnetonka. But she also told Fast Company that she doesn’t think that Minnetonka, as a family-owned business, should have to lose its livelihood now and stop making moccasins.

The situation is arguably different for other fashion brands that might use a Native American symbol—or rip off a Native American design completely—on a single product that could easily be taken off the market. Benjamin says that she has also worked with other companies that have discontinued products.

She sees five steps in the process of reconciliation. First, the person or company who did wrong has to acknowledge the wrong. Then they need to publicly apologize, begin to change behavior, start to rebuild trust, and then, eventually, the wronged party might take the step of forgiveness. Right now, she says, Minnetonka is in the third phase of behavior change. The brand plans to continue to collaborate with Native American designers.

The company can be an example to others on how to listen and build true relationships, Benjamin says. “I think that’s the only way that these relationships are going to get any better—people have to sit down and talk about it,” she says. “People have to be real. People have to apologize. They have to want to reconcile with people.”

The leadership at Minnetonka can also be allies in pushing other companies to do better. “My voice is important at the table as an Indigenous woman,” Benjamin says. “Lucie’s voice is important. But at tables where there’s a majority of people that aren’t Indigenous, sometimes those allies’ voices are more powerful in those spaces, because that means that they’ve signed on to what we’re saying. The power has signed on to moving forward and we agree with ‘Yes, this was wrong.’ That’s the stuff that’s going to change [things] right there.”"

-via FastCompany, February 7, 2024

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Whew. I got a lot done today.

At 6:00 AM I was wide awake and feeling rested, so I got up for the day. Sheila probably had a clean work uniform ready for her shift, but I didn't take chances. I had all clothes washed and put away before she even woke up.

Then the dogs and I went to the airport dog park. Only one larger jet arrived while we were there (a Delta 767-300) but I was on the wrong side of the park to get a good look at it. We walked two loops (two miles). At the end Oliver looked at me like another 100 feet and I'd have to carry his butt back to the car. Or just leave him there. Don't worry, he's home tonight.

We've had decent rain so the grassis thick. I got it mowed, which always leaves me feeling good.

When I ran the dishwasher the drying cycle burned something. As I opened the door it smelled like Satan's toenail clippings roasting over an open fire. My eyes literally watered, and I gasped. After putting the clean dishes away I searched for the source of that vile odor. I found a lump of some gross, crusty thing under the heating element. I don't know what it was. I also cleaned a food trap device (which did not stink). Now my dishwasher has that new-dishwasher smell.

Tonight it was Ella's turn in the brewery rotation. She and I went over for a beer and a dog treat. Sulley and Oliver howled with displeasure as they watched Ella leave without them.

A three- or four-year-old girl really wanted to pet Ella. I told her parents it was fine. That kid got down and pet and hugged Ella who loved it. The girl's dad seemed to be missing his own dog, so he too sat down next to Ella and gave her some lovin'.

After reading the paper and finishing my beer I took Ella home. I was pretty grimy from all I did today. End-of-the-day hot showers are the best. Now I have a the satisfaction of getting stuff done, and I smell delightful.

The neighbors behind us have a fire going in their fire pit as I type this. I can't smell it, but I can hear the crackling. It's a nice way to wind down.

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purple rain

[hclib]

Cutting Ice on Lake Minnetonka

When these photos were taken in 1950, Verne West had been cutting and selling ice on Lake Minnetonka for 35 years. Like his father before him, West stored slabs of winter ice to sell to summertime Lake Minnetonka residents. Every year West cut about 4,000 pieces of ice, each weighing about 200 pounds. West worked alone, using only his 1922 Model T Ford engine to power his ice cutter and his 1924 Model T engine to power his conveyor belt.

Photos from the Minneapolis Newspaper Photograph Collection in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.

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Minnesota's Most Expensive Home, On Sale For Almost $12.5 Million

Woodland Glen, a country estate sitting on nearly 3.5 acres overlooking Lake Minnetonka, is the priciest home in Minnesota. Built in 1988 and measuring almost 20,000 square feet, the place — listed for $12.49 million — boasts six bedrooms and a rather excessive 12 bathrooms.

The home's luxurious furnishings include a grand twin staircase, coffered ceilings, marble floors, a decked-out kitchen and a (again, excessive) dozen fireplaces.

Elsewhere in the giant house, there's a personal movie theater, a bar, a game room and an impressively sized indoor lap pool. And because no rich person's home is complete without a tennis court, there's one sat lakeside with enviable views of the water. This place has twelve fireplaces. Twelve.

— Image Credit: Zillow | Tuesday January 23, 2024 | Darcy Jimenez | Digg

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Nat shot on my Reto 3D film camera in June of 2019.

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Lake Minnetonka.

30x40"

Acrylic, marker and pencil on canvas

SOLD

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Dance electric. 🎸🕊⚡️💜🕊☔️💟💜

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Capture 52 2024, Week 18 Theme: Architecture This is a photo of Lake Minnetonka in MN. It is the largest lakefront real estate property market in the state. Also, this is where the rich people live. Homes here are over $1 million.

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second i hate rich people moment in as many days. i NEED to flee the country

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Enclosed Family Room Minneapolis Inspiration for a mid-sized transitional enclosed carpeted family room remodel with beige walls, a standard fireplace, a stone fireplace and a wall-mounted tv

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Scene in Wayzata: Late November Glow Over Wayzata Bay

The sun sets over Wayzata Bay. Copyright Wayzata.com. In late November, the sun sets over Wayzata Bay, casting a warm glow across the chilly waters—nature’s final brushstrokes on a crisp autumn day. 🌅🍂

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The Amphibious Street Car

May 21, 1908

Passengers debark the Lake Minnetonka Lowry Ark Line. 'All Points on and off the Lake'

The caption reads "The early lake car arrives in port after a perilous voyage."

On May 15, the Minneapolis Tribune reported that the Twin City Rapid Transit company would begin the operation of lake and boat transportation for Lake Minnetonka.

From Hennepin County Library

Original available at: https://digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/collection/Bart/id/6442/rec/1961

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Amazing Travel Adventures - Minnesota shares travel destination for lovers of hiking, learning, singing and much more. Start planning your next Minnesota getaway. Let's travel Minnesota Style! #newblogpostalert #thingstodoinminnesota #wonderlesch

Hello and welcome to my latest travel destination guide Amazing Travel Adventures – Minnesota. This blog post shares must see and must do adventures Minnesota style. Read on to explore Gooseberry State Park with its upper, middle and lower waterfalls (each waterfall has its own beauty and its own vibe). Learn about Iona’s Singing Beach (I’m a fan of singing beaches, black sand beaches, and well,…