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The Mission
The Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures
is committed to the languages and cultural traditions of this region's
diverse peoples. We foster research and the preservation of archival
collections, while producing educational and outreach programs for
a broad public audience. We also assist community groups, classrooms,
and scholars with projects involving Upper Midwestern Cultures
The Region
Although the exact contours of the Upper Midwest are
open to debate, most arbiters apply the term to Minnesota , Wisconsin
, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (with overlap into lower Michigan,
Ontario , Manitoba , the Dakotas, Iowa , Illinois , and even extending
to river towns like St. Louis , Missouri ). A territory of woods,
waters, fields, small towns, and blue collar cities, the Upper Midwest
has long been a cultural middle ground: the meeting place for centuries
of Woodland and Plains Indians, the American region with the most
entrenched and varied European-American population, and recent home
to growing communities of African, Asian, and Hispanic Americans.
The Staff
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