William Millikan

William Millikan, the author of Against Unions: The Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and Its Fight Against Organized Labor, is currently working on a history of Minnesota entitled “Stealing a State, the American Way.” He is a three-time winner of the Solon J. Buck Award for the best article in Minnesota History.

How turn-of-the-century lumber speculation destroyed the Bois Forte Ojibwe homeland

By William Millikan

Dec. 9, 2019

By the 1920s, dams and deforestation had so damaged the landscape that it could no longer support the tribe’s subsistence economy, and its members were forced onto their reservation at Nett Lake.

How Wall Street helped steal Maya Kicaksa and other lands from the Dakota

By William Millikan

April 28, 2015

The European occupation of Maya Kicaksa exiled its former residents, impoverished thousands of immigrants, and created the capital to develop the business infrastructure of Minnesota.