For millennia, the place where the Minnesota River joins the Mississippi has been a crossroads, a place of strategic power.
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The Fort is a powerful reminder that most Minnesotans today are descendants of immigrants, living on conquered land.
But that symbolism is complicated.
That limestone fortress has stood for almost two hundred years as both an actor and a symbol in Minnesota\'s history. troops built Fort Snelling on the bluff above the rivers.
In the 1820s, the newly arriving U.
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For millennia, the place where the Minnesota River joins the Mississippi has been a crossroads, a place of strategic power