MINNESOTA FRENCH FACTS
Minnesota State Flag
Courtesy of the Minnesota Secretary of State website
http://www.sos.state.mn.us/student/flag.html
Minnesota is the NORTH STAR STATE / l'étoile du nord
State Seal Courtesy of the Minnesota Secretary of State website
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Dick Bernard's La Société CanadienneFrançaise Blog
Annie Muske's MnAATF Lakeville South HS = FrancoFête T Shirt order info
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French-connected Sesquicentennial Activities in Minnesota
St. Paul's Immersion School l'Étoile du Nord
presented an original play: "Kaposia" - January 25 & 26, 2008
The Minnesota Chapter AATF co-sponsored the writing and printing
of a 16 page booklet by Patricia Mougel, presented as a "cadeau de sesquicentenaire"
to all who attended the chapter's April 18, 2008 Annual Dinner Meeting
held at the Mn Humanities Center in Minnesota's capital city, St. Paul.
l'Héritage français et franco-canadien dans le Wisconsin et le Minnesota (1634-1841);
Les représentants de la couronne royale, aventuriers, explorateurs et missionaires.
- The booklet has been reprinted and new copies are available from our
MnAATF Treasurer:
LaRae Ellingson
5023 Nob Hill Drive
Edina, MN 55439
$8.00 for members $10.00 for nonmembers
3 for $20 members 3 for $25 for nonmembers
Shipping: $3.00 for up to 10 copies $6.00 for 10+ copies
Make checks payable to "MnAATF"-
Minneapolis-based Alliance française celebrated "French Heritage Week"
July 6-11, 2009
France-Amérique article about the Twin Cities
April, 2008
AATF Minnesota French Facts Packet -
Courtesy of National AATF Vice-President, Prof. Robert Peckham -- August 2006 Revision
January 2007 Minnesota Businesses Languages Preferences
Article Extract
Les Français d'Amérique
Sponsored by AFAM & CODOFIL
(Alliance Franco-Américaine du Midwest & Conseil pour le Développement du Français en Louisiane)
French in America Calendar images & info 1985-2002
See particularly:
Sept. 1989 Paul Granlund monument to Joseph-Nicolas Nicollet
at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter MN- donated by Dr. Melva Lind -
(author of l'Âme Indienne - Gustavus Adolphus Professor, and longtime AATF and Alliance française doyenne).
May, 1995 Members of the Northern Pacific Expedition, 1869 - Mn Historical Society
- commentary by Dick Bernard, la Société française canadienne du Midwest
French history in our region and in the US - Dick Bernard
[coordinator of the ongoing email list for the now defunct La Societe Canadienne-Francaise of Upper Midwest]
French History Commentaries - Juillet, 2008
Série d'articles au sujet de l'influence francophone dans l'histoire de notre état et de sa région
No 1: Catholicisme dans le Midwest: Lucien Galtier
et l'origine du nom de la capitale du Minnesota
No 2: Les Wallons du Wisconsin
No 3: Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut
No 4: Pierre Le Sueur
No 5: Jacques Marquette
No 6: Joseph Nicolas Nicollet
No 7: Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de la Vérendrye
No 8: Le Fort Beauharnois : le fort du Lac Pepin*
No 9: Jean-Baptiste Faribault
No 10: Joseph Nicollet et le Haut Mississippi
No 11: Le Lac qui parle Dakotas, Renville, missionnaires et actualité
No 12: RadissonDesGroseilliers
No 13: Joseph Cretin
No 14: Les Soeurs St. Joseph de Carondelet
No 15: Le Père Louis Hennepin
No 16: Sieur Cavelier de La Salle
Above numbered articles: Patricia Mougel, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Dept. of French and Italian
Have been published in the AATF-MN chapter quarterly newsletter, REFLETS de l'étoile du nord
Patricia Mougel's first year French U of MN student website:
l'eau, environnement, et les explorateurs
Patricia Mougel - Unit Lessons: l'eau hier et aujourd'hui
* related Le Fort Beauharnois article above
Introduction: L'eau hier et aujourd'hui
Lesson 1 : L'eau dans la géographie du Minnesota.
Lesson 2 L'eau et les explorateurs, missionnaires français dans le Minnesota.
Lesson 3 Introduction - Le lac Pepin à lšépoque du négoce des fourrures
Lesson 4: Vie au lac Pepin au 18ème siècle.
Lesson 5: Le lac Pepin: miroir des lacs du Minnesota: un lac en danger
Lesson 6: Vous et la protection des lacs et rivières de votre région
Sur la Piste des Voyageurs
Curriculum project created in the Carla Institute 2000-01 CoBaLTT program
Lesson Units - Sur la Piste des Voyageurs
- The CARLA Voyageurs links created no longer exist, but they were very useful while they were on line:
Maureen Curran-Dorsano, Normandale French Immersion Elementary School
Commentary from Dick Bernard
Review of Jane Peck's Dance Revels 1-2 April, 2011 PIERRE BOTTINEAU JIG
Dick Bernard's Blog Mn French Connections Info page
Reflects the story of La Société Canadienne-francaise du Minnesota (1979-2001)
and the beginnings of a new French-American Heritage Society in Minnesota, 2012 ->
Initiatives in French Midwest
A developing website endeavor by Virgil Benoit, French professor & Mn/ND métis heritage scholar,
who lives in Minnesota and teaches at the University of North Dakota
Send comments to the AATF-MN Advocacy Rep. & Web Site Coordinator
MnAATF website URL - http://mnaatf.org/1d.htm
created: July 17, 2005 last updated: 12 février, 2014
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