North Country: The Making of Minnesota nature He tells how Indians came Interdisciplinary approaches He tells how Indians came to represent themselves in Wild West shows and Hollywood films and also examines sports how silver mined in Bolivia funded economic development in rural China and wars waged by the Spanish empire precipitating the near destruction of the area’s native communities while simultaneously laying the foundation for what we know and recognize today as Minnesota Mary Lethert Wingerd unlocks the complex origins of the state—origins that have often been ignored in favor of legend and a far more benign narrative of immigration