Pipestone National Monument - Minnesota
This National Monument is truly a sacred place and has been for close to 2000 years. The Sioux account as to the origin of the pipestone, as recorded by George Catlin in 1836 states that .... At an ancient time the Great Spirit, in the form of a large bird, stood upon the wall of rock and called all the tribes around him, and breaking out a piece of the red stone formed it into a pipe and smoked it, the smoke rolling over the whole multitude. He then told his red children that this red stone was their flesh, that they were made from it, that they must all smoke to him through it, that they must use it for nothing but pipes; and as it belonged alike to all tribes, the ground was sacred, and no weapons must be used or brought upon it.
In 1937 Congress established Pipestone National Monument to provide traditional quarrying for Indians. Today pipe carvings are appreciated as art-works as well as for ceremonial use. Once again, as commanded by the spirit bird in the Sioux story of it's creation, the pipestone here is quarried by an American Indian enrolled in a tribe recognized by the US Government. An age old tradition continues in the modern world, ever changing yet rooted in the past.
The unique and special stone is also referred to as Catlinite, named after George Catlin.
Be sure to enjoy the Circle Trail and take in beautiful Winnewissa falls and then explore the ancient quarries. The Native Americans who are tasked with quarrying the stone treat it with reverence and respect. Please do the same and not remove any pieces of the stone, nor intrude in the space assigned to each workman. The pipestone is still quarried by hand just as it has been for centuries.
Pipestone National Monument (Minnesota) - March 7, 2009
Slide show of a visit to Pipestone National Monument (near Pipestone, Minnesota) on a gray, cold day (about 24 deg F). Photos include a look at the quarries (worked by native Americans), a walk on the Circle Trail, a view of the Oracle (at 3:28), a crossing of Pipestone Creek (near Winnewissa Falls), and a few other points of interest along the way. One deer was watching from the ridge above the prairie; I was too slow on the draw to get a photo of the red-headed woodpecker that saw me before I saw it; and I heard a pheasant (but did not see it). Not another person was on the trail (however, the visitor center was open). The site is probably a bit more hospitable in warmer weather.
Descendants of Exiled Dakotans Remember MN Trail of Tears
Descendants of Exiled Dakotans Remember MN Trail of Tears from The UpTake. Like this? Watch the latest episode of The UpTake on Blip!
A pair of bald eagles floated high above the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers Tuesday as a line of Dakota Indians, following in the footsteps of their exiled ancestors, rounded a highway curve in Mendota and marched toward Fort Snelling. And toward a spiritual healing of Minnesotaapos;s most painful chapters ? the executions, imprisonments and forced removal of the Dakota from their homeland in the wake of the Dakota War of 1862. The marchers ? about 100 Indians, trailed by another 100 or more non-Indian supporters ? were finishing a week-long Dakota Commemorative March, a 150-mile-long tribute to 1,700 Dakota captives ? most of them women and children, along with some elderly men ? who were marched by soldiers from the Lower Sioux Reservation near present-day Morton, Minnesota, to Fort Snelling. The forced march is the story of Minnesotaapos;s own Trail of Tears as innocent Indian civilians ? non-combatants in the six-week war that raged up and down the Minnesota River Valley ? were harshly removed from their homes and put on the road to imprisonment and exile. At every mile post along the road retracing their steps ? the 10th year the march has been recreated ? descendants of those Dakota exiles placed stakes in the ground bearing the names of the Dakota women who had been left as the heads of their families during a time when state authorities had proclaimed that the Dakota must be banished or exterminated. During the forced march and internment, it was hard to tell the difference between the two things: Although official histories say there were few deaths along the march, oral Dakota histories say there were many, including a death of a baby snatched by a mob near New Ulm, and, at Henderson, a mob that hurled rocks at the captives. And there is no question about the many deaths that occurred in the prison camp at Fot Snelling ? sources say 150 to 300 died in the place some soldiers called the squaw camp. Gabriel Renville, a mixed-blood Dakota held prisoner there, wrote: We were so crowded and confined that an epidemic broke out among us and children were dying day and night, among them being [Solomon] Two Stars? oldest child, a little girl?. The news then came of the hanging at Mankato. Amid all this sickness and these great tribulations, it seemed doubtful at night whether a person would be alive in the morning. The captivity and suffering of these women and children is an unfamiliar story to most white Minnesotans, and, until recent years, was even unfamiliar to some Dakota Indians whose families did not speak much about the lost war, their lost homeland or the travails of their ancestors. Much as many World War II veterans did not share the stories of combat with their families, many Dakota stayed silent about the suffering they had experienced. It was too horrible to discuss. Every Sioux found on our soil should get a permanent homestead, 6 feet by 2, wrote the St. Cloud Democrat as the prisoners were arriving at Fort Snelling. Shoot the hyenas ... exterminate the wild beasts, and make peace with the devil and all his host sooner than with these red-jawed tigers whose fangs are dripping with the blood of innocents. The newspaper was edited by prominent frontier crusading journalist Jane Grey Swisshelm, a champion of abolition and womenapos;s rights. The irony of her demand for native blood may have been unknown to the Dakota, but the sentiment was clear: White Minnesota wanted an end to them. These vermin are not fit to live on the face of the earth, wrote the St. Paul Press, echoing the St. Paul Pioneerapos;s call for the utter extermination of the Dakota. The sooner they are totally extinguished as a race, the sooner one of the greatest of all nuisances will be abated. No wonder this history remains difficult to confront. Minnesota wanted a final solution for the Dakota. And it came close to accomplishing that goal. The weight of racism, retribution, rejection and ? in the end, somehow ? survival, hung in the air Tuesday as elder Phyllis Redday, from Sisseton, South Dakota, led the ceremony in the damp woods below the recreated Fort Snelling. Praying and smudging attendees with clouds of smoke from a burning sweetgrass bundle, Redday moved and prayed clockwise, reading the names of the women prisoners from stakes set in a circle. The Dakota sang traditional songs, and cried out in anguish, and cried tears. I stood among the silent crowd of non-Indian supporters, watching from the tree line near a pipestone marker that was dedicated by departed Dakota spiritual leader Amos Owen in 1987. I was at that ceremony, on the 125th anniversary of the war, a year that Gov. Rudy Perpich had declared to be a Year of Reconciliation between the Dakota and the white majority. It was an optimistic idea. A
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Carver Levee Minnesota River 03.23.2011
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Bundles, Pipes and Mounds: Exploring Nearby Indigenous Cultural Sites
College Scholar Deborah Williams shares the geographical and archeological importance of Plains Indian sites within a day’s drive from JCCC.
Bundles, Pipes and Mounds: Exploring Nearby Indigenous Cultural Sites
Before settlers came to the prairie, the Midwest was home to the Plains Indians, an overarching term for a multitude of tribes, including the Kansa, the Fox and the Kickapoo of northeast Kansas.
Williams will share with the audience three locations where they can discover a wealth of information about Plains Indians and their daily lives. One such place, the farthest away, is Pipestone, Minnesota.
The area is so named because of the local catlinite, a reddish metamorphic clay indigenous peoples used to create the bowl of pipes.
“It’s a soft material, easy to mold,” Williams says, “but very hard to get to.” Because the clay wasn’t easy to extract from the ground, pipes created from this clay were especially revered. To this day, only American Indian tribes are allowed to mine the catlinite, she said. Williams will have artifacts made from this material at her talk.
In addition to the Pipestone U.S. National Park and Monument, Williams will share details of:
Cahokia Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois. The Cahokia Mounds is a state historic site across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, Missouri. It was the once the site of the largest American Indian city north of Mexico. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Pawnee Indian Museum, Republic, Kansas. Just south of the Nebraska border and four hours from Overland Park, this museum is also a state historic site, sharing with visitors the remains of a Pawnee village that hit its peak population in the 1700s.
Her first-hand account of her visits will be related through the prism of Williams’ scholarly study in environmental science, anthropology, law and philosophy.
She is professor of biology and chair of environmental science at JCCC, where she teaches classes such as the Natural History of Kansas, Bioethics and Principles of Sustainability.
This presentation, the third of three, is part of the College Scholars program. The program showcases faculty excellence in research fields that go beyond the classroom to make scholarly contributions to knowledge within the professor's academic discipline.
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Minnesota House of Representatives hosts Sovereignty Day — morning portion 2/18/19
Drum group, flag procession, convocation.
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Minnesota Tribal Nations Plaza Dedication at University of Minnesota's TCF Stadium, PART II of III
University of Minnesota TCF Stadium - August 17, 2009
The ceremony featured American Indian elements such as a Dakota prayer, a traditional blessing of the sky markers, and songs by traditional drum groups. The SMSC made a charitable donation of $10 million for construction of the plaza and $2.5 million for a matching endowment fund. The plaza exhibits and celebrates the rich history, presence, and cultural contributions of all of the eleven Indian tribes in Minnesota.
The Minnesota Tribal Nations Plaza is located at the entrance on the west side of TCF Bank Stadium. The architecturally innovative design includes eleven, 18-foot tall sky markers, each of which incorporates information about each one of Minnesotas 11 Tribal Nations. Tribal flags, images, and important facts are incorporated on the soaring glass sky markers.
The eleven tribal nations in Minnesota are the Bois Forte Band of Chippewa, the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Grand Portage Band of Chippewa Indians, the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, the White Earth Band of Chippewa Indians, the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, the Lower Sioux Indian Community, the Prairie Island Dakota Community, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, and the Upper Sioux Community.
The Fort Laramie National Historic Site and 150th Anniversary of the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie
Originally established as a private fur trading fort in 1834, Fort Laramie evolved into the largest and best known military post on the Northern Plains before its abandonment in 1890. This “grand old post” witnessed the entire sweeping saga of America’s western expansion and Indian resistance to encroachment on their territories. Also, the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie will be remembered in the summer of 2018 at Fort Laramie.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park - North Dakota HD
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ll Parco nazionale Theodore Roosevelt è un parco nazionale degli Stati Uniti ed un'area naturale protetta che comprende tre aree geograficamente separate nelle badlands (calanchi) della parte occidentale del Dakota del Nord.
Quando Theodore Roosevelt venne nel Dakota Territory a caccia di bisonti nel 1883 non avrebbe potuto immaginare come la sua avventura in questo luogo remoto e sconosciuto avrebbe per sempre alterato il corso della nazione. L'aspro paesaggio e la vita faticosa che TR ha vissuto qui ha contribuito a plasmare una politica di conservazione che ancora oggi beneficiamo.
Una grande varietà di animali hanno casa nel Parco nazionale Theodore Roosevelt. L'abbondanza di erbe autoctone forniscono sostentamento per il pascolo degli animali grandi e piccoli, mentre la varietà di habitat differenti attira un gran numero di uccelli.
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View from the west lookout tower, Blue Mounds State Park 2-
Late winter day, Saturday, February 4th, 2012, looking toward Illinois and Iowa from the lookout tower at Blue Mounds State Park near Blue Mounds, Wisconsin. It was a windy day, but sunny, warm even.
Galleria Edina: KARE 11 Broadcasting Live on 11/19/2016 - 8-10 AM
KARE 11's Belinda Jensen and Dave Schwartz broadcast live from Galleria Edina (8-10 am).
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