Monumental Mines: Mine Tourism, Settler Colonialism, and the Creation of an Extractive Landscape on Minnesota’s Iron Range

Joseph Whitson is a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota where he has been involved in a number of public history initiatives including co-curating Singing our History, an exhibit on the history of Red Lake Nation, working on the Humanities Action Lab’s Global Dialogues on Mass Incarceration, and contributing to the Minneapolis Public School’s American Indian History curriculum. He has also developed historical interpretation for the Minnesota Historical Society and Three Rivers Park District. He is the founder of Indigenous Geotags, a social media based public humanities initiative focused on public land and Indigenous issues.