Annette Atkins
St. Joseph, MI
The mixed-race issue was experienced and felt deeply in 19th and 20th century Minnesota — and especially powerful after Dakota people were banished from the state in 1863 and when bounties were offered for Dakota scalps. What “boxes” could endanger a person and which could protect her? This S-F-F-M-1900 was a real person and there were many others like her.