The Minnesota Humanities Center is inviting those here in New Brighton wanting to know about the Dakota people to take their Dakota Sacred Sites Tour in mid-September.
Hikers will visit significant Dakota sites where Dakota scholars will discuss histories and stories often overlooked in Minnesota history. The experience will also include the art of singing drumming.
The tour will be completely outdoors, and there will be extensive standing and walking on unpaved roads.
The tour will include three sites. Fort Snelling State Park will feature a location central to Dakota history and spirituality called Bdote, and the site where 1600 Dakota elders, women and children were interned from 1862 to 1863.
Indian Mounds Regional Park has Dakota grave sites that are thousands of years old. The mounds represent the circle of life and returning to the womb.
The last stop will be Pilot Knob Preservation Site. This is a gathering place for the Dakota people for centuries and a sacred burial ground. It's also where the signing of the Treaty of 1851 took place.
A coach bus will take participants to the sites and lunch will be provided. Guests will need to bring beverages, bug spray, sunscreen and possibly portable camping chairs.
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This Dakota Sacred Sites Tour will take place September 15 from 7:45 am to 3:15 pm beginning at the New Brighton Community Center, 400 10th Street NW.
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