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Bdote Memory Map
The Bdote Memory Map is an interactive online map and website by which the Dakota people trace their history and passed down memory of Bdóte—the region that is now referred to as the Twin Cities area in Minnesota. It allows viewers to explore the history of the region as told from an Indigenous perspective. With video, audio, and other multimedia forms, the map provides the voices of Native speakers to tell their personal and ancestral stories of the region at the junction of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, known by the Dakota people as Bdote, meaning "where the two waters come together".
Article summary
The Bdote Memory Map is an interactive online map and website by which the Dakota people trace their history and passed down memory of Bdóte—the region that is now referred to as the Twin Cities area in Minnesota. It allows viewers to explore the history of the region as told from an Indigenous perspective. With video, audio, and other multimedia forms, the map provides the voices of Native speakers to tell their personal and ancestral stories of the region at the junction of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, known by the Dakota people as Bdote, meaning "where the two waters come together".
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- Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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