MTP Mission Statement

MISSION STATEMENT

To preserve, protect and perpetuate the memories of the early settlers of the State of Minnesota;

To collect, restore, preserve, construct and display objects or places, including replicas thereof, of historical significance;

To promote the learning of history and related subjects;

To persevere and promote the history of the State of Minnesota;

To engage in, advance, promote and administer religious, charitable, educational and scientific activities and projects of every kind and nature whatsoever in its own behalf or as the agent, trustee or representative of others;

To aid, assist and contribute to the support of corporations, associations and institutions which are organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, educational or scientific purposes.

As you can see from the original preamble to the Articles of Organization, the goals of the Minnesota Territorial Pioneers have remained much the same over its hundred-plus year history:

Being a part of the advance guard of that grand army of civilization which carried the "Star of the Empire" westward, and of whom it was then said:

Oh hear the tread of the pioneers,

Of nations yet to be;

The first low wash of waves where soon

Shall roll a human sea

We deem it proper that the Territorial Pioneers of Minnesota - they who laid the foundation of our magnificent "North Star State" and are bound together by the ties of brotherhood and sympathy, formed and cemented amid the dangers, trials, and privations of frontier life - should, by means of a more perfect and fraternal organization, be brought more closely together; and to the end

that the memories and friendships of those early days may be perpetuated,

and to assist in the preservation of our history covering that period,

and for the formation of a more perfect union and brotherhood,

so we do hereby so organize and adopt, and subscribe to the following articles...."