This is a Burial Place

This cemetery is a sacred burial ground that has existed for thousands of years on land that continues beyond this location along the bluffs by the rivers and throughout the region. Mnisota is Dakota homeland, to which Dakota people have always been connected, and although its boundaries are not precisely defined, this significant area extends beyond the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers. Settlers desecrated the mounds through plowing, road construction, recreational use, vandalism, greed, and archaeology. Though most of the mounds are no longer visible, their ancestors' remains are still here. Living Dakota, Ho-Chunk, and Ioway people continue to visit to honor and respect their deceased ancestors.

St. Paul, Minnesota · United States