Minneapolis[a] is a city inHennepin County, Minnesota, United States, and itscounty seat.[4] With a population of 429,954 as of the2020 census, it is the state'smost populous city.[7] Located in the state's center near the eastern border, it occupies both banks of theUpper Mississippi River and adjoinsSaint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota. Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and the surrounding area are collectively known as theTwin Cities, a metropolitan area with 3.69 million residents.[14] Minneapolis is built on an artesian aquifer on flat terrain and is known for cold, snowy winters and hot, humid summers. Nicknamed the "City of Lakes",[15] Minneapolis is abundant in water, withthirteen lakes, wetlands, theMississippi River, creeks, and waterfalls. The city's public park system is connected by theGrand Rounds National Scenic Byway.
Dakota people previously inhabited the site of today's Minneapolis.European colonization and settlement began north ofFort Snelling alongSaint Anthony Falls—the only natural waterfall on the Mississippi River.[16] Location near the fort and the falls' power—with its potential for industrial activity—fostered the city's early growth. For a time in the 19th century, Minneapolis was the lumber and flour milling capital of the world, and as home to theFederal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, it has preserved its financial clout into the 21st century. A Minneapolis Depression-era labor strike brought about federal worker protections. Work in Minneapolis contributed to the computing industry, and the city is the birthplace ofGeneral Mills, thePillsbury brand,Target Corporation, andThermo King mobile refrigeration.
Residents adhere to more than fifty religions. Despite its well-regarded quality of life,[17] Minneapolis has stark disparities among its residents—arguably the most critical issue confronting the city in the 21st century.[18] Governed by a mayor-council system, Minneapolis has a political landscape dominated by theMinnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), withJacob Frey serving as mayor since 2018.
Two Indigenous nations inhabited the area now called Minneapolis.[19] Archaeologists have evidence that since 1000 A.D.,[20] they were theDakota (one half of theSioux nation),[21] and, after the 1700s,[22] theOjibwe (also known as Chippewa, members of theAnishinaabe nations).[23] Dakota people have different stories to explain their creation.[24] One widely accepted story says the Dakota emerged fromBdóte,[24] the confluence of theMinnesota andMississippi rivers. Dakota are the only inhabitants of the Minneapolis area who claimed no other land;[25] they have no traditions of having immigrated.[26] In 1680, clericLouis Hennepin, who was probably the first European to see the Minneapolis waterfall the Dakota people callOwámniyomni, renamed it the Falls of St.Anthony of Padua for his patron saint.[27]
In the space of sixty years, the US seized all of the Dakota land and forced them out of their homeland.[30] Purchasing most of modern-day Minneapolis,Zebulon Pike made the1805 Treaty of St. Peter with the Dakota.[b] Pike bought a 9-square-mile (23 km2) strip of land—coinciding with the sacred place of Dakota origin[24]—on the Mississippi south of Saint Anthony Falls,[34] with the agreement the US would build a military fort and trading post there and the Dakota would retain theirusufructuary rights.[35] In 1819, theUS Army builtFort Snelling[36] to direct Native American trade away from British-Canadian traders and to deter war between the Dakota and Ojibwe in northern Minnesota.[37] Under pressure from US officials[38] in a series of treaties, the Dakota ceded their land first to the east and then to the west of the Mississippi, the river that runs through Minneapolis.[39][c] Dakota leaders twice refused to sign the next treaty until they were paid for the previous one.[51] In the decades following these treaty signings, thefederal US government rarely honored their terms.[52] At the beginning of the American Civil War, annuity payments owed in June 1862 to the Dakota by treaty were late, causing acute hunger among the Dakota.[53][d] Facing starvation[55] a faction of the Dakota declaredwar in August and killed settlers.[56] Serving without any prior military experience, US commanderHenry Sibley commanded raw recruits,[57] volunteer mounted troops from Minneapolis and Saint Paul with no military experience.[58] The war went on for six weeks in the Minnesota River valley.[59] After akangaroo court,[60][e] 38 Dakota men were hanged.[59][f] The army force-marched 1,700 non-hostile Dakota men, women, children, and elders 150 miles (240 km) to aconcentration camp atFort Snelling.[28][77] Minneapolitans reportedly threatened more than once to attack the camp.[78] In 1863, the US "abrogated and annulled" all treaties with the Dakota.[79] With GovernorAlexander Ramsey calling for their extermination,[80] most Dakota were exiled from Minnesota.[81]
While the Dakota were being expelled,Franklin Steele laid claim to the east bank ofSaint Anthony Falls,[82] andJohn H. Stevens built a home on the west bank.[83] In theDakota language, the city's name isBde Óta Othúŋwe ('Many Lakes Town').[g] Residents had divergent ideas on names for their community.Charles Hoag proposed combining the Dakota word for 'water' (mni[h]) with the Greek word for 'city' (polis), yieldingMinneapolis. In 1851, after a meeting of theMinnesota Territorial Legislature, leaders of east bank St. Anthony lost their bid to move the capital from Saint Paul, but they eventually won the state university.[90] In 1856, the territorial legislature authorized Minneapolis as a town on the Mississippi's west bank.[86] Minneapolis was incorporated as a city in 1867, and in 1872, it merged with St. Anthony.[91]
Minneapolis originated around a source of energy: Saint Anthony Falls, the only natural waterfall on the Mississippi.[16] Each of the city's two founding industries—flour and lumber milling—developed in the 19th century nearly concurrently, and each came to prominence for about fifty years.[j] In 1884, the value of Minneapolis flour milling was the world's highest.[96] In 1899, Minneapolis outsold every other lumber market in the world.[97] Through its expanding mill industries, Minneapolis earned the nickname "Mill City".[98] Due to the occupational hazards of milling, six companies manufactured artificial limbs.[99]
Disasters struck in the late 19th century: theEastman tunnel under the river leaked in 1869; twice, fire destroyed the entire row of sawmills on the east bank;[100] an explosion of flour dust at theWashburn A mill killed eighteen people[101] and demolished about half the city's milling capacity;[102] and in 1893, fire spread from Nicollet Island to Boom Island to northeast Minneapolis, destroyed twenty blocks, and killed two people.[103]
The lumber industry was built around forests in northern Minnesota, largely by lumbermen emigrating fromMaine's depleting forests.[104][105] The region's waterways were used to transport logs well after railroads developed; the Mississippi River carried logs toSt. Louis until the early 20th century.[106] In 1871, of the thirteen mills sawing lumber in St. Anthony, eight ran on water power, and five ran on steam power.[107] Auxiliary businesses on the river's west bank included woolen mills, iron works, a railroad machine shop, and mills for cotton, paper, sashes, and wood-planing.[108] Minneapolis supplied the materials for farmsteads and settlement of rapidly expanding cities on theprairies that lacked wood.[109]White pine milled in Minneapolis builtMiles City, Montana;Bismarck, North Dakota;Sioux Falls, South Dakota;Omaha, Nebraska; andWichita, Kansas.[110] Growing use of steam power freed lumbermen and their sawmills from dependence on the falls.[111] Lumbering's decline began around the turn of the century,[112] and sawmills in the city including theWeyerhauser mill closed by 1919.[113] After depleting Minnesota's white pine,[114] some lumbermen moved on toDouglas fir in thePacific Northwest.[115]
In 1877,Cadwallader C. Washburn co-founded Washburn-Crosby,[117] the company that becameGeneral Mills.[118][k] Washburn and partnerJohn Crosby[119] sent Austrian civil engineerWilliam de la Barre toHungary where he acquired innovations throughindustrial espionage.[120] De la Barre calculated and managed the power at the falls and encouraged steam for auxiliary power.[121]C. A. Pillsbury Company across the river hired Washburn-Crosby employees and began using the new methods.[120] Wheat farming developed west across theGreat Plains, from Minnesota, to theDakotas and Montana,[122] and new rail lines connected these farmers to the Minneapolis mills, reciprocally spurring further expansion.[123] Thehard red spring wheat grown in Minnesota became valuable, and Minnesota "patent" flour was recognized at the time as the best bread flour in the world.[120] In 1900, fourteen percent of America's grain was milled in Minneapolis[120] and about one third of that was shipped overseas.[124] Overall production peaked at 18.5 million barrels in 1916.[125] Decades ofsoil exhaustion,stem rust, and changes in freight tariffs combined to quash the city's flour industry.[126] In the 1920s, Washburn-Crosby and Pillsbury developed new milling centers inBuffalo, New York, andKansas City, Missouri, while maintaining their headquarters in Minneapolis.[127] The falls became anational historic district,[128] and the upper St. Anthonylock and dam was permanently closed to traffic.[129] The city announced that in accordance with a 2020 act of Congress, ownership of 5 acres (2.0 hectares) of federal land around the falls will transfer in 2026 to a Dakota-led nonprofit Owámniyomni Okhódayapi.[130]
Columnist Don Morrison says that after the milling era waned a "modern, major city" emerged.[131] Around 1900, Minneapolis attracted skilled workers[132] who leveraged expertise from the University of Minnesota.[133] In 1923,Munsingwear was the world's largest manufacturer of underwear.[134]Frederick McKinley Jones invented mobilerefrigeration in Minneapolis, and with his associate foundedThermo King in 1938.[135] In 1949,Medtronic was founded in a Minneapolis garage.[136]Minneapolis-Honeywell built a south Minneapolis campus where their experience regulatingcontrol systems earned them military contracts for theNorden bombsight and the C-1autopilot.[137] In 1957,Control Data began in downtown Minneapolis,[138] where in theCDC 1604 computer they replacedvacuum tubes withtransistors.[139] A highly successful business until disbanded in 1990, Control Data opened a facility in economically depressed north Minneapolis, bringing jobs and good publicity.[138] AUniversity of Minnesota computing group releasedGopher in 1991; three years later, theWorld Wide Web superseded Gopher traffic.[140]
In many ways, the 20th century in Minneapolis was a difficult time of bigotry and malfeasance, beginning with four decades of corruption.[142] Known initially as a kindly physician, mayorDoc Ames made his brother police chief, ran the city into crime, and tried to leave town in 1902.[143] TheKu Klux Klan was a force in the city from 1921[144] until 1923.[145] The gangsterKid Cann engaged in bribery and intimidation between the 1920s and the 1940s.[146] After Minnesota passed aeugenics law in 1925, the proprietors ofEitel Hospitalsterilized people atFaribault State Hospital.[147]
During the summer of 1934 and the financial downturn of the Great Depression, theCitizens' Alliance, an association of employers, refused to negotiate withteamsters. The truck driversunion executedstrikes in May and July–August.[148]Charles Rumford Walker said that Minneapolis teamsters succeeded in part due to the "military precision of the strike machine".[149] The union victory ultimately led to1935 and1938 federal laws protecting workers' rights.[150]
From the end of World War I in 1918 until 1950,antisemitism was commonplace in Minneapolis—Carey McWilliams called the city the antisemitic capital of the US.[151] Starting in 1936, a fascisthate group known as theSilver Shirts held meetings in the city.[152] In the 1940s, mayorHubert Humphrey worked to rescue the city's reputation[153] and helped the city establish the country's first municipalfair employment practices[154] and a human-relations council that interceded on behalf of minorities.[155] However, the lives of Black people had not been improved.[156] In 1966 and 1967—years of significantturmoil across the US—suppressed anger among the Black population was released in two disturbances on Plymouth Avenue.[157] Historian Iric Nathanson says young Blacks confronted police, arson caused property damage, and "random gunshots" caused minor injuries in what was a "relatively minor incident" in Minneapolis compared to the loss of life and property in similar incidents in Detroit and Newark.[158] A coalition reached a peaceful outcome but again failed to solve Black poverty and unemployment.[159] In the wake of unrest and voter backlash,Charles Stenvig, a law-and-order candidate, became mayor in 1969, and governed for almost a decade.[160][161]
Disparate events defined the second half of the 20th century. Between 1958 and 1963, Minneapolis demolished "skid row".[l] Gone were 35 acres (10 ha) with more than 200 buildings, or roughly 40 percent of downtown, including theGateway District and its significant architecture such as theMetropolitan Building.[163] Opened in 1967,I-35W displaced Black and Mexican neighborhoods[164] in south Minneapolis.[165] In 1968,relocated Native Americans founded theAmerican Indian Movement (AIM)[166] in Minneapolis. Begun as an alternative to public andBureau of Indian Affairs schools, AIM'sHeart of the Earth Survival School taught Native American traditions to children for nearly twenty years.[167] A same-sex Minneapolis couple appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court but their marriage license was denied.[168] They managed to get a license and marry in 1971,[168] forty years beforeMinnesota legalized same-sex marriage.[169] Immigration helped to curb the city's mid-20th century population decline. But because of a few radicalized persons, the city's large Somali population was targeted with discrimination after9/11, when itshawalas or banks were closed.[170]
In 2020, 17-year-oldDarnella Frazier recorded themurder of George Floyd;[171] Frazier's video contradicted the police department's initial statement.[172] Floyd, a Black man, suffocated whenDerek Chauvin, a White Minneapolis police officer, knelt on his neck and back for more than nine minutes. Reporting onthe local reaction,The New York Times said that "over three nights, a five-mile stretch of Minneapolis sustained extraordinary damage"[173]—destruction included a police station that demonstrators overran and set on fire.[174] Floyd's murder sparked international rebellions, mass protests,[175] and locally, years ofongoing unrest over racial injustice.[176][177] As of 2024,[update] protest continued daily at the intersection where Floyd died, now known asGeorge Floyd Square, with the slogan "No justice, no street".[177] Minneapolis gathered ideas for the square and through community engagement promised final proposals for the end of 2024, that could be implemented by 2026 or thereafter.[178] Protesters continued to ask for twenty-four reforms—many now met; a sticking point was endingqualified immunity for police.[177]
The history and economic growth of Minneapolis are linked to water, the city's defining physical characteristic.Long periods of glaciation and interglacial melt carved several riverbeds through what is now Minneapolis.[180] During thelast glacial period, around 10,000 years ago, ice buried in these ancient river channels melted, resulting in basins that filled with water to become thelakes of Minneapolis.[181] Meltwater fromLake Agassiz fed theGlacial River Warren, which createda large waterfall that eroded upriver past the confluence of the Mississippi River, where it left a 75-foot (23-meter) drop in the Mississippi.[182] This site is located in what is now downtown Saint Paul. The new waterfall, later called Saint Anthony Falls, in turn, eroded up the Mississippi about eight miles (13 kilometers) to its present location, carving theMississippi River gorge as it moved upstream.Minnehaha Falls also developed during this period via similar processes.[183][182]
Minneapolis is sited above anartesian aquifer[184] and on flat terrain. Its total area is 59 square miles (152.8 square kilometers) of which six percent is covered by water.[185] The city has a 12-mile (19 km) segment of the Mississippi River, four streams, and 17 waterbodies—13 of them lakes,[186] with 24 miles (39 km) of lake shoreline.[187]
A 1959 report by the USSoil Conservation Service listed Minneapolis's elevation abovemean sea level as 830 feet (250 meters).[188] The city's lowest elevation of 687 feet (209 m) above sea level is near the confluence of Minnehaha Creek with the Mississippi River.[189] Sources disagree on the exact location and elevation of the city's highest point, which is cited as being between 967 and 985 feet (295 and 300 m) above sea level.[m]
Minneapolis has 83 neighborhoods and 70 neighborhood organizations.[192] In some cases, two or more neighborhoods act together under one organization.[193]
Around 1990, the city set up the Neighborhood Revitalization Program (NRP), in which every one of the city's eighty-some neighborhoods participated.[194] Funded for 20 years through 2011, with $400 milliontax increment financing[194] ($559 million in2024),[12] the program caught the eye ofUN-Habitat, who considered it an example ofbest practices. Residents had a direct connection to government in NRP, whereby they proposed ideas appropriate for their area, and NRP reviewed the plans and provided implementation funds.[194][195] The city's Neighborhood and Community Relations department took NRP's place in 2011[196] and is funded only by city revenue. In 2019, the city released the Neighborhoods 2020 program, which reworked neighborhood funding with an equity-focused lens.[197] This reduced guaranteed funding, and several neighborhood organizations have since struggled with operations or merged with other neighborhoods due to decreased revenue.[198] Base funding for every neighborhood organization increased in the 2024 city budget.[199]
In 2018, theMinneapolis City Council approved the Minneapolis 2040 Comprehensive Plan, which resulted in a citywide end tosingle-family zoning.[200]Slate reported that Minneapolis was the first major city in the US to make citywide such a revision in housing possibilities.[201] At the time, 70 percent of residential land was zoned for detached, single-family homes,[202] though many of those areas had "nonconforming" buildings with more housing units.[203] City leaders sought to increase the supply of housing so more neighborhoods would be affordable and to decrease the effects single-family zoning had caused on racial disparities and segregation.[204] TheBrookings Institution called it "a relatively rare example of success for theYIMBY agenda".[205] From 2022 until 2024,[206][207] theMinnesota Supreme Court, theUS District Court, and theMinnesota Court of Appeals arrived at competing opinions, first shutting down the plan, and then securing its survival. Ultimately in 2024, the state legislature passed a bill approving the city's 2040 plan.[208]
Minneapolis experiences a hot-summerhumid continental climate (Dfa in theKöppen climate classification)[209] that is typical of southern parts of theUpper Midwest; it is situated in USDAplant hardiness zone 5a.[210][211][212] The Minneapolis area experiences a full range of precipitation and related weather events, including snow, sleet, ice, rain, thunderstorms, and fog. The highest recorded temperature is 108 °F (42 °C) inJuly 1936 while the lowest is −41 °F (−41 °C) in January 1888.[213] The snowiest winter on record was 1983–1984, when 98.6 in (250 cm) of snow fell.[214] The least-snowy winter was 1930–1931, when 14.2 inches (36 cm) fell.[214] According to theNational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the annual average forsunshine duration is 58 percent.[215]
Mexican migrant workers began coming to Minnesota as early as 1860, although few stayed year-round.[226]Latinos eventually settled in several neighborhoods in Minneapolis, includingPhillips,Whittier,Longfellow andNortheast.[227] Before the turn of the 21st century, Latinos were the state's largest and fastest-growing immigrant group.[226][228]
Chinese began immigration in the 1870s and Chinese businesses centered on theGateway District and Glenwood Avenue.[238]Westminster Presbyterian Church gave language classes and support forChinese Americans in Minneapolis, many of whom had fled discrimination in western states.[239]Japanese Americans, many relocated from San Francisco, worked atCamp Savage, a secret militaryJapanese-language school that trained interpreters and translators.[240] Following World War II, some Japanese and Japanese Americans remained in Minneapolis, and by 1970, they numbered nearly 2,000, forming part of the state's largestAsian American community.[241] In the 1950s, the US government relocatedNative Americans to cities like Minneapolis, attempting to dismantleIndian reservations.[242] Around 1970,Koreans arrived,[243] and the firstFilipinos came to attend theUniversity of Minnesota.[244]Vietnamese,Hmong (some fromThailand),Lao, andCambodians settled mainly in Saint Paul around 1975, but some built organizations in Minneapolis.[245][246] In 1992, 160Tibetan immigrants came to Minnesota, and many settled in the city's Whittier neighborhood.[247]Burmese immigrants arrived in the early 2000s, with some moving toGreater Minnesota.[248] The population of people fromIndia in Minneapolis increased by 1,000 between 2000 and 2010, making it the largest concentration of Indians living in the state.[249]
The population of Minneapolis grew until 1950 when the census peaked at 521,718—the only time it has exceeded a half million. The population then declined for decades; after World War II, people moved to the suburbs and generally out of the Midwest.[250]
By 1930, Minneapolis had one of the nation's highest literacy rates amongBlack residents.[251][252][253] However,discrimination prevented them from obtaining higher-paying jobs.[254] In 1935,Cecil Newman and theMinneapolis Spokesman led a year-long consumer boycott of four area breweries that refused to hire Blacks.[255] Employment improved during World War II, buthousing discrimination persisted.[256] Between 1950 and 1970, the Black population in Minneapolis increased by 436 percent.[255] After theRust Belt economy declined in the 1980s, Black migrants were attracted to Minneapolis for its job opportunities, good schools, and safe neighborhoods.[257] In the 1990s, immigrants from theHorn of Africa began to arrive,[258] fromEritrea,Ethiopia, and particularlySomalia.[259] Immigration from Somalia slowed significantly following a2017 national executive order.[260] As of 2022, about 3,000 Ethiopians and 20,000Somalis reside in Minneapolis.[261]
TheWilliams Institute reported that the Twin Cities had an estimated 4.2-percentLGBT adult population in 2020.[262] In 2023, theHuman Rights Campaign gave Minneapolis 94 points out of 100 on the Municipal Equality Index of support for the LGBTQ+ population.[263]Twin Cities Pride is held every June.[264]
Minneapolis is the most populous city in Minnesota and the 46th-most populous city in the United States by population as of 2024.[265][266] According to the2020 US Census, Minneapolis had a population of 429,954.[267] Of this population, 44,513 (10.4 percent) identified asHispanic or Latinos.[268] Of those not Hispanic or Latino, 249,581 persons (58.0 percent) wereWhite alone (62.7 percent White alone or in combination), 81,088 (18.9 percent) wereBlack or African American alone (21.3 percent Black alone or in combination), 24,929 (5.8 percent) wereAsian alone, 7,433 (1.2 percent) wereAmerican Indian and Alaska Native alone, 25,387 (0.6 percent) some other race alone, and 34,463 (5.2 percent) weremultiracial.[267]
The most common ancestries in Minneapolis according to the 2021American Community Survey (ACS) wereGerman (22.9 percent),Irish (10.8 percent),Norwegian (8.9 percent),Subsaharan African (6.7 percent), andSwedish (6.1 percent).[269] Among those five years and older, 81.2 percent spoke onlyEnglish at home, while 7.1 percent spokeSpanish and 11.7 percent spoke other languages, including large numbers ofSomali andHmong speakers.[269] About 13.7 percent of the population wasborn abroad, with 53.2 percent of them beingnaturalizedUS citizens. Most immigrants arrived from Africa (40.6 percent), Latin America (25.2 percent), and Asia (24.6 percent), with 34.6 percent of all foreign-born residents having arrived in 2010 or earlier.[269]
Comparable to the US average of $70,784 in 2021,[270] the ACS reported that the 2021 median household income in Minneapolis was $69,397 ($80,527 in2024),[12] It was $97,670 for families, $123,693 for married couples, and $54,083 for non-family households.[271][272] In 2023, the median Minneapolis rent was $1,529, compared to the national median of $1,723.[273] Over 92 percent of housing units in Minneapolis were occupied.[274] Housing units in the city built in 1939 or earlier comprised 43.7 percent.[274] Almost 17 percent of residents lived inpoverty in 2023, compared to the US average of 11.1 percent.[275] As of 2022, 90.8 percent of residents age 25 years or older had earned a high school degree compared to 89.1 percent nationally, and 53.5 percent had a bachelor's degree or higher compared to the 34.3 percent US national average.[275] USveterans made up 2.8 percent of the population compared to the national average of 5 percent in 2023.[275]
In Minneapolis in 2020, Blacks owned homes at a rate one-third that of White families.[276] Statewide by 2022, the gap between White and Black home ownership declined from 51.5 percent to 48 percent.[277] Statewide, alongside this small improvement was a sharp increase in the Black-to-White comparative number ofdeaths of despair (e.g., alcohol, drugs, and suicide).[277] The Minneapolis income gap in 2018 was one of the largest in the country, with Black families earning about 44 percent of what White families earned annually.[276] Statewide in 2022 using inflation-adjusted dollars, the median income for a Black family was $34,377 less than a White family's median income, an improvement of $7,000 since 2019.[277]
Before 1910,[156] when a developer wrote the first restrictivecovenant based on race and ethnicity into a Minneapolis deed,[282] the city was relatively unsegregated with a Black population of less than one percent.[283] Realtors adopted the practice, thousands of times preventing non-Whites from owning or leasing properties;[284] this practice continued for four decades until the city became more and more racially divided.[285] Though such language was prohibited by state law in 1953 and by the federalFair Housing Act of 1968,[286] restrictive covenants against minorities remained in many Minneapolis deeds as of the 2020s. In 2021, the city gave residents a means to discharge them.[287]
Minneapolis has a history ofstructural racism[288] and has racial disparities in nearly every aspect of society.[289] As White settlers displaced the Indigenous population during the 19th century, they claimed the city's land,[290] and Kirsten Delegard ofMapping Prejudice explains that today's disparities evolved from control of the land.[156] Discrimination increased when flour milling moved to theEast Coast and the economy declined.[291]
The foundation laid by racial covenants on residential segregation, property value, homeownership, wealth, housing security, access to green spaces, and health equity shapes the lives of people in the 21st century.[292] The city wrote in a decennial plan that racially discriminatory federal housing policies starting in the 1930s "prevented access to mortgages in areas with Jews, African-Americans and other minorities" and "left a lasting effect on the physical characteristics of the city and the financial well-being of its residents".[293]
Discussing aFederal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis report on how systemic racism compromises education in Minnesota,[294] ProfessorKeith Mayes says, "So the housing disparities created the educational disparities that we still live with today."[295] ProfessorSamuel Myers Jr. says ofredlining, "Policing policies evolved that substituted explicit racial profiling with scientific management of racially disparate arrests.... racially discriminatory policies became institutionalized and 'baked in' to the fabric of Minnesota life."[296][p] Government efforts to address these disparities included zoning changes passed in the 2040 plan,[298] and declaring racism apublic health emergency in 2020.[299]
Aligning with a national trend, the metro area's next largest group after Christians is the 23-percentnon-religious population.[301] At the same time, more than 50 denominations and religions are present in Minneapolis, representing most of the world's religions.[302]Temple Israel was built in 1928 by the city's firstJewish congregation, Shaarai Tov, which formed in 1878.[233] By 1959, a Temple of Islam was located in north Minneapolis.[309] In 1971, a reported 150 persons attended classes at a Hindu temple near the University of Minnesota.[309] In 1972, the Twin Cities' firstShi'a Muslim family resettled from Uganda.[310] Somalis who live in Minneapolis are primarilySunni Muslim.[311] In 2022, Minneapolis amended its noise ordinance to allow broadcasting theMuslim call to prayer five times per day.[312] The city has about sevenBuddhist centers and meditation centers.[313]
Early in the city's history, millers were required to pay for wheat with cash during the growing season and then to store the wheat until it was needed for flour.[316] TheMinneapolis Grain Exchange was founded in 1881; located near the riverfront, it is the only exchange as of 2023 forhard red spring wheatfutures.[317]
Minneapolis area employment is primarily in trade, transportation, utilities, education, health services, and professional and business services. Smaller numbers of residents are employed in government, manufacturing, leisure and hospitality, and financial activities.[320]
TheMinneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) is located in south-central Minneapolis on the 10-acre (4 ha) former homestead of theMorrison family.[326]McKim, Mead & White designed a vast complex meeting the ambitions of the founders for a cultural center with spaces for sculpture, an art school, and orchestra. One-seventh of their design was built and opened in 1915. Additions by other firms from 1928 to 2006 achieved much of the original scheme.[327] Today the collection of more than 90,000 artworks spans six continents and about 5,000 years.[328]
Minneapolis has hosted theatrical performances since the end of the American Civil War.[335] Early theaters includedPence Opera House, the Academy of Music, Grand Opera House, Lyceum, and later the Metropolitan Opera House, which opened in 1894.[336] Fifteen of the fifty-five Twin Cities theater companies counted in 2015 by Peg Guilfoyle had a physical site in Minneapolis. About half the remainder performed in variable spaces throughout the metropolitan area.[337]
In his social history ofAmerican regional theater, Joseph Zeigler calls theGuthrie Theater the "granddaddy" of regional theater.[338]Tyrone Guthrie founded the Guthrie in 1963 with an inventivethrust stage—a collaboration by Guthrie, designerTanya Moiseiwitsch, and architectRalph Rapson[339]—jutting into the seats and surrounded by the audience on three sides.[340] French architectJean Nouvel designed a new Guthrie that opened in 2006 overlooking the Mississippi River.[340] The design team reproduced the thrust stage with some alterations, and they added aproscenium stage and an experimental stage.[340]
Exhibits atMill City Museum feature the city's history of flour milling.[363]The Bakken, formerly known as the Bakken Library and Museum of Electricity in Life,[364] shifted focus in 2016 from electricity and magnetism to invention and innovation, and in 2020 opened a new entrance onBde Maka Ska.[365]Hennepin History Museum is housed in a former mansion.[366] Built of elaborate woodwork in 1875 and maintained today as a historic site, the littleMinnehaha Depot was a stop on one of the first railroads built out of Minneapolis.[367]
After the flight to the suburbs began in the 1950s,streetcar service ended citywide.[381]One of the largest urbanfood deserts in the US developed on the north side of Minneapolis, where as of mid-2017, 70,000 people had access to only two grocery stores.[382] WhenAldi closed in 2023, the area again became a food desert with two full-service grocers.[383] The nonprofit Appetite for Change sought to improve the diet of residents, competing against an influx of fast-food stores,[384] and by 2017 it administered ten gardens, sold produce in the mid-year months at West Broadway Farmers Market, supplied its restaurants, and gave away boxes of fresh produce.[385] Appetite for Change closed its Minneapolis restaurant in 2023, opened a food truck, and received a grant from the Minnesota legislature to create a long-term home.[386] West Broadway is one of twenty farmers markets and mini-markets operating in the city, and among them, four are open during winter.[387]
Conceived in Minneapolis as a malted milkshake in candy form, theMilky Way bar ofnougat, caramel, and chocolate was made in theNorth Loop neighborhood during the 1920s.[393] Both purported originators of theJucy Lucy burger—the5-8 Club andMatt's Bar—have served it since the 1950s.[394]East African cuisine arrived in Minneapolis with the wave of migrants from Somalia that started in the 1990s.[395] The Herbivorous Butcher, described by CBS News as the "first vegan 'butcher' shop in the United States", opened in 2016.[396]
The 1,700,000-square-foot (160,000 m2)U.S. Bank Stadium was built for the Vikings at a cost of $1.122 billion ($1.54 billion in2024);[12] of this, the state of Minnesota provided $348million ($477 million in2024),[12] and the city of Minneapolis spent $150million ($205 million in2024).[12] The stadium, whichMPR News called "Minnesota's biggest-ever public works project", opened in 2016 with 66,000 seats, which was expanded to 70,000 for the2018 Super Bowl.[411] U.S. Bank Stadium also hosts indoor running and rollerblading nights.[412] Minneapolis has two municipalgolf courses[413] and one private course.[414] Each January, theU.S. Pond Hockey Championships are held onLake Nokomis.[415] TheTwin Cities Marathon held in October is aBoston Marathon qualifier.[416] The final weekend of the 2024 pond hockey championships was canceled due to above average temperatures,[417] as was the 2023 marathon.[418]
Landscape architectHorace Cleveland's masterpiece is the Minneapolis park system.[419] In the 1880s, he preserved geographical landmarks and linked them with boulevards and parkways.[420] In their introduction to a modern reprint of Cleveland's treatise onlandscape architecture, professors Daniel Nadenicek and Lance Neckar add that "Cleveland was successful in Minneapolis in great measure because he operated with kindred spirits" likeWilliam Watts Folwell andCharles M. Loring.[421] In his bookThe American City: What Works, What Doesn't,Alexander Garvin wrote Minneapolis built "the best-located, best-financed, best-designed, and best-maintained public open space in America".[422]
Cleveland lobbied for a park on the riverfront to include the city's other waterfall.[423] In 1889,George A. Brackett arranged financing, and his associate Henry Brown paid the state to cover the condemnation of surrounding land.[424]Minnehaha Park, containing the 53-foot (16 m) waterfallMinnehaha Falls, is one of Minnesota's first state parks.[425] The falls became what historian Mary Lethert Wingerd calls a "civic emblem" that appears on products and in placenames.[426]
The city's parks are governed and operated by the independentMinneapolis Park and Recreation Boardpark district.[427] Beyond its network of 185 neighborhood parks,[428] the park board owns the city's street trees.[429][r] The board owns nearly all land that borders the city's waterfronts—thus the public owns the city's lakeshore property.[431] The park board owns land outside the city limits including its largest park,Theodore Wirth Park—sitting west of downtown Minneapolis and partly in Golden Valley—which incorporates the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden and Bird Sanctuary.[432]
Canoeing on the Mississippi
As of 2020, approximately 15 percent of land in Minneapolis is parks, in accordance with the national median, and 98 percent of residents live within one-half mile (0.8 km) of a park.[433] The city'sChain of Lakes extends through five lakes in southwest Minneapolis.[434] The chain is connected by bicycle, running, and walking paths and is used for swimming, fishing, picnics, boating, ice skating, and other activities. A parkway for cars, abikeway for riders, and a walkway for pedestrians[435] run parallel along the 51-mile (82 km) route of theGrand Rounds National Scenic Byway.[436] Parks are interlinked in many places, and theMississippi National River and Recreation Area connects regional parks and visitor centers.[437] Among walks and hikes running along the Mississippi River, the five-mile (8 km), hiking-onlyWinchell Trail offers views of and access to theMississippi Gorge and a rustic hiking experience.[438] TheMinneapolis Aquatennial, a civic celebration of the "City of Lakes", is held each July.[439]
TheMinneapolis City Council has 13 members who represent the city's 13 wards.[449] In 2021, aballot question shifted more weight from the city council to the mayor; proponents had tried to achieve this change since the early 20th century.[450] The mayor and city council now share responsibility for the city's finances.[451] The city's primary source of funding is property tax.[452] A sales tax of 9.03 percent[453] on purchases made within the city is a combination of the city sales tax of 0.50 percent, along with county, state, and special district taxes.[454][455] ThePark and Recreation Board is an independent city department with nine elected commissioners who levy their own taxes, subject to city charter limits.[427] The Board of Estimation and Taxation, which oversees city levies, is also an independent department.[456]
The mayoral reform ballot measure led to four direct reports to the mayor—two officers, the city attorney, and the chief of staff—and the creation of two new offices.[457] The Office of Public Service is led by the city operations officer. The Minneapolis departments of civil rights and public works report to the office which oversees communications and engagement; development, health, and livability; and internal operations. The Office of Community Safety has a single commissioner responsible for overseeing the police and fire departments, 911 dispatch, emergency management, and violence prevention;[458] within this office, four emergency response units serve the city:Behavioral Crisis Response (BCR), fire, emergency medical services, and police.[459] Canopy Mental Health & Consulting, also known as Canopy Roots, operates BCR free of charge[459] to respond to crises and some 911 calls that do not require police.[460]
Police guard the third precinct the day before it was burned down during theGeorge Floyd protests.
After themurder of George Floyd in 2020, about 166 police officers left of their own accord either to retirement or to temporary leave—many withPTSD[461]—and a crime wave resulted in more than 500 shootings.[462] AReuters investigation found that killings surged when a "hands-off" attitude resulted in fewer officer-initiated encounters.[463] After Floyd's murder, chiefs reprimanded a dozen officers for misconduct,[464] and as of early 2024, the city had paid out $50million for police conduct claims.[465] In 2024 came approval of an independent monitor of a court-enforceableconsent decree, an agreement negotiated with theMinnesota Department of Human Rights and theUnited States Department of Justice to compel reformed policing practices.[466] In May 2025, the Trump administration moved to dismiss the consent decree.[467]
Violent crime rose three percent across Minneapolis in July 2022 compared with 2021,[468] and in 2020, it rose 21 percent compared to the average of the previous five years.[469] Violent crime was down for 2022 in every category except assaults. Carjackings, gunshots fired, gunshot wounds, and robberies decreased, and homicides were down 20 percent compared to the previous year.[470]
In 2015, the city council passed a resolution makingfossil fuel divestment city policy,[471] joining 17 cities worldwide in theCarbon Neutral Cities Alliance. Minneapolis'sclimate plan calls for an 80-percent reduction ingreenhouse gas emissions by 2050.[472] In 2021, the city council voted unanimously to abolish its required minimum number of parking spaces for new construction.[473] Minneapolis has a separation ordinance that directs local law-enforcement officers not to "take any law enforcement action" for the sole purpose of findingundocumented immigrants, nor to ask an individual about their immigration status.[474]
In 1834, volunteer missionariesGideon and Samuel Pond[475] sought permission for their work from the US Indian agency at Fort Snelling.[476] They taught new farming techniques and their Christian religion to ChiefCloud Man and his Dakota community on the east shore of Bde Maka Ska.[302] That year, J. D. Stevens and the Ponds built an Indian mission nearLake Harriet, which was the first educational institution in the Minneapolis area.[302] In the treaty of 1837, the US promised payment to the Dakota, but instead gave the monies to the missionaries earmarked for education, and in protest, fewer than ten Dakota students attended.[477] After more settlers moved to the area, ten school buildings served nearly 4,000 students by 1874. The district had more than one hundred schools when enrollment peaked at 90,000 students in 1933.[478]
Dual language science outreach atEmerson, one of nine[479] magnet elementary schools
Minneapolis Public Schools has room for 45,000 students and enrolled about 28,500K–12 students as of 2024,[480] in more than fifty schools, divided between community andmagnet.[481] As of 2023, enrollment was declining about 1.5 percent per year, and approximately 60 percent of school age children attended district schools.[482] The city offered two reasons for the decline: a dwindling number of children lived in the city since 2020 and, accounting for one-fifth of the decline, the climbing popularity of charter schools and open enrollment.[483] Many students enrolled in alternatives such as charter schools, of which the city had 28 as of 2024.[484] By state law, charter schools are open to all students and are tuition-free.[485] In 2022, about 1200 at-risk students attended district alternative schools that offered them better outcomes than traditional schools.[486] For the 2022–2023 school year, 368 students werehomeschooled in Minneapolis.[487]
School district demographics were 41 percent White students, 35 percent Black, 14 percent Hispanic, and 5 percent each were Asian and Native American.[488]English-language learners were about 17 percent[488] in a district that spoke 100 languages at home.[489] About 15 percent werespecial education students.[488] As of fall 2023, every public school student in the state receives one free breakfast and one free lunch each school day.[490] In 2022, the district's graduation rate was 77 percent, an improvement of 3 percent over the previous year.[491]
Headquartered in Minneapolis, theUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities campus enrolled more than 54,000 students in 2023–2024.[492] College rankings in 2024 place the school in the range of 44th[493] to 203rd for academics worldwide.[494][495]QS found a decline in rank over a decade.[495]Shanghai found excellence in ecology and library and information science.[493] Among the 2,250 schoolsU.S. News & World Report compared in its 2024–2025 best global universities rankings, the University of Minnesota tied withEmory University at 63rd.[496] The school has unusual autonomy that has existed in Minnesota since 1858, when the state constitution included the provision thatregents are in control, independent of city government.[497] Founded in 1851[495] and closed in its first decade for lack of funding, the University of Minnesota was revived under theMorrill Act of 1862 using land taken from the Dakota people.[498][s]
In 2023,Nielsen found the Minneapolis–Saint Paul area to be the 15th-largestdesignated market area which is down from 14th in 2022.[533] Of the 89 FM and 57 AM stations that can be heard in the city, 17 FM stations and 11 AM stations are licensed in Minneapolis.[534] The Twin Cities have 1,742,530 TV homes.[535]TV Guide lists 151 TV channels for Minneapolis.[536]
For all trips by all members of a household in 2019,Metropolitan Council data showed that the most common means of transportation was driving alone (40 percent), the least common was bicycling (3 percent), and others were carpooling (28 percent), walking (16 percent), and public transit (13 percent). The city's goal is that by 2030, 60 percent of trips are taken without a car, or 35 percent by walking and biking and 25 percent by transit. The city aims to reduce vehicle miles traveled by 1.8 percent per year.[537]
A division of the Metropolitan Council,Metro Transit operates public transportation in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul metropolitan area.[538] As of 2023, the system has twolight rail lines, fivebus rapid transit (BRT) lines, and onecommuter rail line.[539] A fleet of 736 buses serves 10,745 bus stops.[539] As of 2021, riders of Metro Transit system-wide were 55 percent persons of color.[539] The system provided nearly 45 million rides in 2023, a sixteen-percent increase over the previous year.[540] In 2023, bus service had returned to 90 percent of its ridership before the COVID-19 pandemic.[540]
TheMetro Blue Line light rail line connects theMall of America andMinneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport inBloomington to downtown,[541] and theGreen Line travels from downtown through the University of Minnesota campus to downtownSaint Paul.[542] ABlue Line extension to the northwest suburbs is scheduled to be built and completed by 2030.[543] AGreen Line extension is planned to connect downtown with the southwestern suburbs.[t] BRT lines are 25 percent faster than regular bus lines because riders pay before boarding, stops are limited, and sometimes they employ signal prioritization.[545] The newest BRT line, the D Line, runs along one of Minnesota's most used bus lines, the 18-mile (29 km) route5, where a quarter of households do not have access to a car.[545] In January 2026, bus service[546] will replace the 40-mile (64 km)Northstar Commuter rail fromBig Lake, Minnesota, to downtown Minneapolis.[547]
A cyclist in winter
Hundreds of homeless people nightly sought shelter on Green Line trains until overnight service was cut back in 2019.[548] Short more than a hundred police officers, in 2022, the Metro Council hired community groups to help police light rail stations; these non-profits can guide passengers to mental health services and shelters.[549] In partnership with a private security company in 2024, Metro Transit improved security and safety with 24 trip agents who ride the light rail lines each day and work with transit police and community officers.[550]
In 2007, theInterstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi, which was overloaded with 300 short tons (270,000 kg) of repair materials, collapsed, killing 13 people and injuring 145. Thebridge was rebuilt in 14 months.[551]
Evie Carshare, owned by Minneapolis and Saint Paul since 2022, is a fleet of 145 electric cars available for one-way trips in a 35-square-mile (91 km2) area of the Twin Cities.[552] In warm weather,Lime and Veo have shared electric bikes and scooters for rent at sixty mobility hubs located on transit lines; riders may end their trip anywhere in the city.[553]
Xcel Energy supplies electricity,[561] andCenterPoint Energy provides gas.[561] The water supply is managed by fourwatershed districts that correspond with the Mississippi and three streams that are river tributaries.[562]
The city has nineteenfire stations.[563] Requests for non-emergency information or service requests can be made through Minneapolis311. The call center operates in English, Spanish, Hmong, and Somali, and offers 220 language options.[564] Email, TTY, text, voice, and a mobile app can access the center.[565]
The Minneapolis department of public works is responsible for services including snow plowing, solid waste removal, traffic and parking, water treatment, transportation planning and maintenance, and fleet services for the city.[566] Among its engineering functions, the department was increasing the capacity of a 4,200-foot (1,300 m)storm water tunnel system 80 feet (24 m) under Washington to Chicago avenues and had completed 97 percent of the excavation phase and 41 percent of the lining phase as of August 2023.[567] Designed for downtown's concrete landscape, the system will drain runoff into the Mississippi in case of a100-year storm.[568]
Downtown Improvement District ambassadors, who are identified by their blue-and-green-yellow fluorescent jackets, daily patrol a 120-block area of downtown to greet and assist visitors, remove trash, monitor property, and call police when they are needed. The ambassador program is apublic-private partnership that is paid for by a special downtown tax district.[569]
In 2022, opioid overdoses killed 231 persons in Minneapolis.[578] For the state in 2021, Black persons were three times and Native American persons were ten times more likely to die from an opioid overdose than White persons.[579][u] The 2024 city budget added funds for the Turning Point treatment center, which provides care specifically for African Americans.[199] TheRed Lake Band of Chippewa is building a culturally sensitive treatment center for opioid and fentanyl addiction. Minneapolis transferred two city-owned properties to the Red Lake Nation for the facility.[581][582]
The Mashkiki Waakaa'igan Pharmacy—funded by theFond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa—dispenses free prescription drugs and culturally sensitive care to members of any federally recognized tribes living in Hennepin and Ramsey counties, regardless of insurance status.[583]
^Because President Thomas Jefferson had not authorized Pike's trip, which was made at the behest ofJames Wilkinson, the new governor of the Louisiana territory, Pike did not have the authority to make a treaty.[31] Pike valued the land at $200,000 ($4.2 million in2024)[12] in his journal but omitted the value in Article 2 of the treaty. Pike gave the chiefs 60 US gallons (230 L) of liquor and $200 ($4,200 in2024)[12] in gifts at the signing.[32] In 1808, the US Senate authorized one hundredth of Pike's estimate and added acreage,[32] paying $2,000 ($41,996 in2024)[12] for the land in 1819.[33]
^In the 1851Treaty of Traverse des Sioux andTreaty of Mendota, the US took all Dakota land west of the Mississippi,[40] about 24 million acres (97,000 km2),[41] in exchange for a 10-mile (16 km) wide reservation on the Minnesota River[42] and about $3 million ($113 million in2024).[12] After expenses, the Dakota were promised fifty years of annuities in goods[43] and interest on $1,360,000 ($51.4 million in2024) and $1,410,000 ($53.3 million in2024);[12] the US kept the principal.[44] The Dakota could not read English, and their interpreters worked for the US.[39] In Mendota, negotiatorWakute said he feared signing a treaty because the prior treaty was changed from the one he had signed.[45] Indeed, the US Congress ratified amendments after the fact, and refused to consider payment unless the Dakota agreed to their new terms—in 1852 Congress struck the reservation from the final treaty.[46] NegotiatorsLuke Lea andAlexander Ramsey had promised the Dakota they would prosper, and they rushed the transaction.[47] The chiefs were asked to sign a third paper in 1851—onlookers assumed it was a third copy of the treaty[48]—that Ramsey later declared was a "solemn acknowledgment" of the Dakota's debt to traders.[49] Ramsey, as territorial governor, enforced the trader's paper, distributing the monies to himself,Henry Sibley, and their friends.[50]
^Part of the delay was a month's indecision in the US Treasury about appropriating gold or greenbacks and in Congress, which was preoccupied with Civil War finance. Gold arrived in the region just a few hours after settlers had been killed and war had begun.[54]
^General[61]Henry Sibley rushed to complete the trials before winter.[62] Trials were held from late September[63] through early November 1862, in central Minnesota west of Minneapolis;[62] on each day up to forty-three men stood trial.[62] The Dakota men were without counsel, rarely spoke English, in some cases trials proceeded without witnesses, and no time was made for cross-examination.[64] Historian Gary Clayton Anderson says, "In 90 percent of the trials, the entire event lasted only a minute or two...".[64]
^Sibley appointed a commission of men thought later to be biased to hear the trials and planned to carry out executions immediately.[65] Of 400 Dakota, 303 were sentenced to death, 20 were sentenced to prison, 69 were acquitted, and 8 were released.[66] When his superior Major GeneralJohn Pope reported the commission's findings to PresidentAbraham Lincoln he had realized only the president can authorize executions. Historian Mary Lethert Wingerd writes that Lincoln and members of his cabinet were "taken aback" by the number of condemned and the irregular proceedings.[67] Lincoln then ordered astay of execution until he could review the trial transcripts.[67] Minnesotans wanted revenge and many were outraged at the stay.[68] Lincoln was under pressure from Minnesotans,[69] and wrote that he wished to avoid cruelty and to discourage another outbreak.[70] He first decided that only rapists would be hanged, but only 2 Dakota met that condition. Then with the help of his lawyers,[71] Wingerd writes that Lincoln "reluctantly"[69] ordered that 39 men[72] would be hanged; these men had been convicted of murdering civilians. One received a last minute reprieve.[70] Minnesotans participated in lynch mobs and vigilantism against the Dakota, both condemned and friendly—2 men died of injuries sustained during attacks on Sibley's wagon train that took them toMankato. Command transferred to ColonelStephen Miller who oversaw the executions—he declared martial law and banned alcohol for the 4,000 spectators.[73] The Dakota were reportedly cheerful as they walked to their deaths; a journalist wrote, "No equal number ever approached the gallows with greater courage, and more perfect determination to prove how little death can be feared".[74] After what was the largest mass execution in US history,[75][74] Minnesota officials discovered that in their haste, they had hanged 2 innocent men.[70] Nearly all the men's bodies were dug up from their graves within 24 hours, some for trophies but most by physicians who wanted cadavers to dissect.[76]
^The University of Minnesota Dakota Dictionary Online requires a Dakota font to read special characters.[84] Here, Dakota to Latin alphabet transliteration is borrowed fromLerner Publishing in Minneapolis.[85]
^InAtwater's history, Baldwin gives the Sioux word asMinne.[86]Riggs givesmini.[87]Williamson who was most familiar withSantee hasMini, and in theYankton dialect,mni.[88] Here,mni is from the University of Minnesota Dakota Dictionary Online.[89]
^"Minneapolis would be the nation's flour capital for 50 years." and "Begun in 1848, timber milling had lasted for almost 50 years."[94]
^Soldiers from Fort Snelling built asawmill in 1820, and agristmill in 1823, on the west bank near the falls.[92][93][i] The city's first commercial sawmill was built in 1848, and the first commercial gristmill in 1849.[95]
^In 1928, Washburn-Crosby merged with other local millers and changed its name to General Mills to reflect a wider product base including convenience foods likeWheaties.[118]
^In a 1975 article, reporter John Carman said the city's highest point is 967 feet (295 m) at Deming Heights Park in theWaite Park neighborhood.[190] TheUS Geological Survey lists the highest elevation as 980 feet (300 m) but does not give a location.[189] Geography professor John Tichy said the highest point is the site of Waite Park Elementary School at approximately 985 feet (300 m) above sea level.[191] All of the cited sources that list locations say the highest point is within theNortheast section of the city.
^Mean monthly maxima and minima (i.e., the highest and lowest temperature readings during an entire month or year) calculated based on data at the said location from 1991 to 2020.
^Official records for Minneapolis/Saint Paul were kept by the Saint Paul Signal Service in that city from January 1871 to December 1890, the Minneapolis Weather Bureau from January 1891 to April 8, 1938, and at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport (KMSP) since April 9, 1938.[216]
^Separately, Myers describes how the Minneapolis police department's adoption of CODEFOR in 1998 increased policing in areas of Minneapolis that were disproportionately non-White, with dual results: "Minority residents are afforded improved safety and law enforcement services; minority offenders unsurprisingly may be disproportionately apprehended for relatively minor transgressions in order to achieve the higher levels of safety."[297]
^The Minnesota Opera has offices in Minneapolis and performs in Saint Paul.[351]
^Minneapolis had planted more than 200,000American elms on its streets and parks beforeDutch elm disease was found in the city in 1963. By 1977, when the most were lost to the epidemic and the city began its control program, the Twin Cities had lost 192,000 elm trees to the disease, and more than 30,000 diseased trees were found in Minneapolis.[430]
^The Treaty of 1837 forced Dakota to make the largest land cession—all of their land east of the Mississippi.[499] Then the Dakota ceded more of their land in the Treaty of 1851.[500]
^As of early 2024, the extension was nine years behind schedule and US$1.5 billion over budget.[544]
^ASahan Journal investigation covering the state from 2019 to 2023 found that "Native Americans were at least 15 times", Somali Minnesotans were twice as likely, and "Latino Minnesotans were 1.5 times" as likely to die from opioid overdoses than White persons.[580]
^Thompson, Derek (March 2015)."The Miracle of Minneapolis".The Atlantic.Archived from the original on May 25, 2023. RetrievedApril 28, 2023.By spreading the wealth to its poorest neighborhoods, the metro area provides more-equal services in low-income places, and keeps quality of life high just about everywhere.
^Weber 2022, p. 4, "The overarching goal is to take what may be the most significant issue facing contemporary Minneapolis—the crippling disparities among its people, exposed to the world in 2020, after the murder of George Floyd—and present a history that examines why those disparities exist, even as the city makes a legitimate argument for itself as a must-see or must-live kind of place.".
^McConvell, Rhodes & Güldemann 2020, pp. 560, 564, "Finally in this time frame other groups of Ojibwes began pushing to the west and southwest, at the expense of the Dakota groups".
^Westerman & White 2012, pp. 3–4, "William H. Keating, a geologist who came to the Minnesota area on an exploratory expedition in 1823, observed, 'The Dacotas have no tradition of having ever emigrated, from any other place, to the spot on which they now reside...'.
^Westerman & White 2012, pp. 134, 136, Page 136: "Treaties played a crucial role in the increasing separation of the Dakota from their homeland in the years between 1805 and 1858, leading up to their ultimate expulsion by military force in 1863–64." and page 134: "For the Dakota the wordcessions might well be replaced withseizures..." and "Collectively these treaties included three great cessions, comprising the Treaties of 1825, 1837, and 1851".
^"Treaties".The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862.Minnesota Historical Society. July 31, 2012.Archived from the original on August 15, 2021. RetrievedJune 1, 2021.These treaties, which were almost wholly dishonored by the U.S. government...
^Westerman & White 2012, p. 194, "The remaining seventeen hundred women, children, and elderly, including hundreds of noncomabatants, some of whom had protected white settler refugees from the war, were rounded up and force-marched to a concentration camp beneath the bluffs of Fort Snelling....".
^"mni".University of Minnesota Dakota Dictionary Online.University of Minnesota.Archived from the original on October 13, 2022. RetrievedOctober 13, 2022.
^Amagai, Takuya; Kasper, Sahree; the Minnesota Environments Team."Mills of Minneapolis".Minnesota Environments.Carleton College.Archived from the original on August 20, 2024. RetrievedAugust 21, 2024.
^Risjord 2005, p. 131, "By then, however, the pine woods were virtually exhausted".
^Lass 2000, p. 180, Here, Lass calls the lumbermen's actions as cutting at a "rapacious rate", and calls out a "rapacious assault on the coniferous forests" on page 196.
^Lass 2000, p. 238, "The anticipated decline came rather abruptly during the 1920s. By the end of that decade the Mill City produced only slightly more than half as much flour as it had at its zenith, and ranked third after Buffalo and Kansas City, Missouri.".
^Stipanovich 1982, p. 104, "Thus while Minneapolis began to lose jobs in the mills, it began to acquire other jobs in management, financial administration, advertising, market research, product research and design, and other mid-level management and administrative positions. The effect was to upgrade the workforce...".
^Stipanovich 1982, p. 111, "The university's role grew more and more important as the 20th century rolled along, for basic research and experimentation grew more complex and costly and as time went by.".
^Ladd-Taylor 2005, p. 242, "Eitel, the founder of the private Eitel Hospital and a vice-president of Dight's eugenics society, performed the first 150 surgeries; his nephew George D. Eitel took over the work after the old man died in 1928".
^Garrettson 1993, p. 85, "On the second try, the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) bill passed in 1948. It was the 'first municipal FEPC bill in America'".
^Weber 2022, p. 141, "Explaining the name,Clyde Bellecourt remembered Alberta Downwind saying at AIM's founding:Indian is the word that they used to oppress us.Indian is the word we'll use to gain our freedom".
^"Same-Sex Marriage in Minnesota".Minnesota Issues Resource Guides. Minnesota Legislative Reference Library. July 2022.Archived from the original on June 5, 2023. RetrievedJune 5, 2023.
^Mitchell 2022, p. 44, "Two years have passed since Floyd was killed, but the site where he died...continues to be contested space—an ongoing site of protest—but also a sacred location".
^"Minneapolis".Emporis. Archived from the original on April 23, 2007. RetrievedJanuary 12, 2021.
^"Physical Environment". City of Minneapolis. p. 39.Archived from the original on February 10, 2023. RetrievedJanuary 12, 2021.
^Water Resources Management Plan(PDF) (Report). City of Minneapolis. December 14, 2021. pp. 3–14, ES-4.Archived(PDF) from the original on April 6, 2023. RetrievedApril 6, 2023.
^Water Resources Management Plan(PDF) (Report). City of Minneapolis. December 14, 2021. p. 3-1.Archived(PDF) from the original on April 6, 2023. RetrievedApril 6, 2023.
^Neighborhood and Community Relations (February 2020)."Neighborhoods 2020 Program Guidelines"(PDF).Legislative Information Management System. City of Minneapolis.Archived(PDF) from the original on May 22, 2024. RetrievedMay 22, 2024.
^Albert 1981, p. 561, "...Minneapolis received by far the greater share (see Table 30.2). Camp Savage and Fort Snelling, the greatest magnets for wives, relatives, and friends of those stationed there, were more accessible from Minneapolis than from St. Paul".
^Weber 2022, p. 159: "President Donald Trump's executive order in 2017 banned new immigration from Somalia and several other majority-Muslim nations. Just forty-eight people came to Minnesota from Somalia in 2018, down from more than fourteen hundred in 2016," and further reading p. 187.
^Delegard & Ehrman-Solberg 2017, pp. 73–74, "...the Seven Oaks Corporation, a real estate developer that inserted this same language into thousands of deeds across the city.".
^Walker et al. 2023, p. 5, "...the Mapping Prejudice team showed that, prior to the introduction of covenants in 1910, the residences of people of color were dispersed throughout the city, yet as developers added thousands of racial covenants to deeds in Minneapolis until 1955, the city's neighborhoods became increasingly racially segregated".
^Waxman, Olivia B. (June 2, 2020)."George Floyd's Death and the Long History of Racism in Minneapolis".Time.Archived from the original on November 17, 2022. RetrievedNovember 17, 2022.Delegard toldTime, 'Structural racism is really baked into the geography of this city and as a result it really permeates every institution in this city.'
^"Goals: 1. Eliminate disparities".Department of Community Planning & Economic Development. City of Minneapolis.Archived from the original on November 17, 2022. RetrievedNovember 17, 2022....in 2010, Minneapolis led the nation in having the widest unemployment disparity between African-American and white residents. This remains true in 2018. And disparities also exist in nearly every other measurable social aspect, including of economic, housing, safety and health outcomes, between people of color and indigenous people compared with white people." and "In Minneapolis, 83 percent of white non-Hispanics have more than a high school education, compared with 47 percent of black people and 45 percent of American Indians. Only 32 percent of Hispanics have more than a high school education.
^"Goals: 1. Eliminate disparities".Department of Community Planning & Economic Development. City of Minneapolis.Archived from the original on November 17, 2022. RetrievedJune 22, 2023.
^Factors outlined include racial gaps in opportunity, limited pre-school subsidy programs, educator bias, differences in families' and schools' economic resources, less-experienced teachers, and completion rate gaps.Grunewald, Rob; Horowitz, Ben; Ky, Kim-Eng; Tchourumoff, Alene (January 11, 2021).Minnesota's education system shows persistent opportunity gaps by race (Report).Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.Archived from the original on June 18, 2023. RetrievedJune 18, 2023.This article highlights evidence of how systemic racism undermines the education system in Minnesota.
^Millett 2007, pp. 159–160, "Christ Church was Saarinen's last building" and "the addition was among Eero's last commissions".
^abHalvorsen Ludt, Tamara; Fritz, Laurel; Anderson, Lauren (June 2020).Minneapolis in the Modern Era: 1930–1975(PDF).Community Planning and Economic Development (Report). City of Minneapolis. pp. 7.24, 7.27. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on September 22, 2022. RetrievedJuly 14, 2022.
^Whitmore 2004, Whitmore cites the 1903New York Herald which calls T. B. Walker "the Pine King of the West" and says "...the gallery is open to the public six days in the week, and all who ring his bell and ask to see the old masters receive not only permission from the white-aproned maid who answers the ring, but also a catalogue as well.".
^Regan, Sheila (February 8, 2022)."New documentary looks back at Minneapolis' 1970s-era experimental arts program".MinnPost.Archived from the original on April 22, 2023. RetrievedApril 22, 2023.FITC began as a program offered through the Minneapolis Public Schools, under the umbrella of the Urban Arts Program....(Among the notable alumni of the Urban Arts program was none other than Prince himself.)
^Roise, Charlene; Gales, Elizabeth; Koehlinger, Kristen; Goetz, Kathryn; Hess, Roise and Company; Zschomler, Kristen; Rouse, Stephanie; Wittenberg, Jason (December 2018).Minneapolis Music History, 1850–2000: A Context(PDF) (Report). City of Minneapolis. p. 42.Archived(PDF) from the original on May 15, 2023. RetrievedMay 1, 2023.A true musical prodigy, Prince mastered the piano by about age eight while living at 2620 Eighth Avenue North, where he could play anything he heard by ear on the piano and began songwriting.
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