October 22, 2019

MCCC awarded grant to share Native American history

Author: Caitlin Taylor

@ctaylormn
About 60 people gathered Monday morning in the Monroe County Community College’s La-Z-Boy Center for the announcement of a $199,234 Native American Heritage Fund grant.
When Edmund La Clair was a child, he doesn’t recall talking too much about his heritage.
With Native American ancestry, the assistant professor of history at Monroe County Community College said he became disturbed by the number of lives forgotten through the erasure of Native culture.
That’s why La Clair, along with c