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1/31/2008: Farmer, settler, hunter, voyageur and founding father of many cities, Pierre Bottineau was born this month in 1817, 12 miles west of present day Grand Forks. Pierre Bottineau was born to French-Canadian Charles Bottineau and his Native American wife, Margaret Ahdik Songab. Pierre’s parental lineage made him an outsider in both white and American Indian communities; which makes his successes all the more remarkable.
The Heroism of Vision: Photographers on the Battlefield For over a century and a half, combat photographers have taken extraordinary risks to document the true horrors of war. Here's What You Need to Know: Author Phillip Knightley best summed up the contributions of combat photographers and their role as vicarious witnesses for the rest of the world when he wrote, “Without the presence of the camera, the event would have meant nothing.” On the morning of February 23, 1945, on the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima, a 40-man patrol gathered at the 5th Marine Division headquarters for their f...