The Mahnomen Pioneer (Mahnomen, Minn.) 1910-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,392 issues from 1914 to 1940, published in Mahnomen, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Mahnomen Pioneer is a long-running weekly newspaper published in Mahnomen, Minnesota, the seat of Mahnomen County in the northwestern part of the state. Mahnomen County, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word for wild rice, lies entirely within the White Earth Indian Reservation. The town of Mahnomen was established in 1904 as a depot on a newly built rail line. The town’s first newspaper, Mahnomen Plaintalk, began publication on May 12, 1905.
In April 1910, the Plaintalk was sold by its publisher, William M. Wigham, to Harry P. Phillips. Phillips was an experienced newspaper journalist, most recently of the Detroit Record in nearby Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Renamed the Mahnomen Pioneer, Phillips’s newspaper was published weekly, with four pages of seven columns. Coverage included national, state, and local news, with a Republican editorial viewpoint. In 1916, the newspaper expanded to eight pages of six columns; the additional content included syndicated news and serialized fiction.
Though not a specifically Native American newspaper, the Pioneer served a community with a large Native American population, and frequently featured news related to local, state, and national Indian affairs. Its local news and social affairs content also included coverage of many White Earth individuals and families.
In April 1922, Phillips purchased Mahnomen’s Nonpartisan League newspaper, the Mahnomen Free Press, which had been in publication since 1908, leaving the Pioneer the town’s…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Mahnomen, Minnesota, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress