Who impacted history in Minnesota?
This is something I never knew about in Minnesota! And it has to do with ancient history… You’ll have to see the article…… In part it reads: Many local residents have forgotten, but Pelican Rapids rates a prominent place in state history and there is a monument commemorating the event just 3 miles north of the city on U.S. Highway 59. A monument (right) sands on the site of the discovery of “The Minnesota Women” the skeletal remains of a woman that were believed to be at least 10,000 (possibly as much as 20,000) years old. Science now recognizes this Minnesota Girl (who is sometimes referred to as “Lady of the Lake”), as a proto-Indian, a member of a race who lived virtually in the shadow of glaciers at the end of the last Ice Age. Her forebears had come from east-central Asia, perhaps by walking across the Bering Straights on ice, perhaps on a “land bridge” exposed by lower sea levels. Retreating glaciers left a band of rich alluvial soil at their bases, upon which grew lush gra
