On language and legacy: Wakáŋ Tipi
By the Lower Phalen Creek Project The first European known to have visited the area known to the Dakota as Imnižaska, or Saint Paul, was Jonathan Carver. In his journals from 1766-1767, Carver details encountering the place we know as Wakan Tipi when he writes about a “great stone cave called Waukon Teebee” by the […]
Wakan Tipi Center aims for spring groundbreaking
By Lee Egerstrom Community supporters in St. Paul and at Minnesota’s four Dakota communities are still raising funds and making plans with their sights set on a spring groundbreaking for the Wakan Tipi Center that is envisioned as a great Dakota heritage preservation and learning center. With a recent $1 million appropriation from the Minnesota […]