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Mni Sota Dakota Sacred Waters
Mni Sota Dakota Sacred Waters
The Mississippi River has been and remains a site of deep spiritual and cultural importance to Minnesota's Dakota people. This video introduces sites of cultural importance in the Twin Cities region guided by Dr. Kate Beane, Flandreau Santee Sioux, and board member of St. Paul's Wakáŋ Tipi Center.
Wakan Tipi Dakota Sacred Land
Wakan Tipi Dakota Sacred Land
Maggie Lorenz, director of the Wakáŋ Tipi Center, introduces Wakáŋ Tipi, a site that is sacred to Dakota people near downtown St. Paul MN. Wakáŋ Tipi (in English, "Dwelling Place of the Sacred") includes burial mounds dating back thousands of years and a sacred cave that has been the site of important Dakota ceremonies.
WATER LINKS DAKOTA SACRED SITES AT BDOTE
The Twin Cities area—and all of southern Minnesota—is Dakota homeland. A series of sites along the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers form a sacred landscape the Dakota call Bdote. The Bdote sacred landscape connects contemporary Dakota people to Grandmother Earth. These sacred places are sites of both genesis and genocide in the past, and erasure in the present. Produced with Carleton College.
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