A Minneapolis policeman looks down Plymouth Ave in Minneapolis on July 21, 1967, hours before hundreds of National Guard troops arrive to patrol Black communities as part of a larger movement against Black rebellions in the 60s [Robert Walsh/AP Photo] Minnesota, like every other US state, begins with a lie. Explore Minnesota tourism ads present the state as a natural paradise, as if the US military-occupied land of Mni Sota Makoce is God-country, some blessing bestowed upon God’s own settler-colony. Popular culture presents a narrative about the state as pure and as white as the opening scene of Fargo. The upper Midwest is full of hearty, plaid and parka-wearers and white homemaking mom’s you betcha and don’tcha know-ing over a stack of unfinished pancakes as the ruddy-cheeked children grab their hockey sticks and run out to the frozen-over pond.