Sacred in the city: Indigenous site in St. Paul prepared to welcome, educate public

Located at the base of the Mississippi River bluffs in the footprint of the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary on St. Paul's east side sits Wakan Tipi, a place Dakota people hold sacred.

"This is a really, really incredibly important site for Dakota cultural history, Indigenous history in the region," said Maggie Lorenz, executive director of the Lower Phalen Creek Project.

More than a century and a half ago, Dakota people were forcibly removed from Minnesota to South Dakota and Nebraska. Others sought refuge in what is now North Dakota and Manitoba.

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