Alexander Faribault was born in 1806 to a French-Canadian Fur Trader father and a Dakota mother. His first language was Dakota, his second was French, and his third was English. Alexander played a unique and important role in early Minnesota history. Susan Garwood, Executive Director of the Rice County Historical Society will talk about Faribault’s life as a child living among the Dakota, a teenager watching Fort Snelling being built, a fur trader building relationships with the Native community in what would become Rice County, his transformation to politician, businessmen, developer, and translator; and how, with strong ties to his mother’s family yet following in his father’s footsteps as a Fur Trader and politician, Alexander walked the line between two cultures.