ARTS & CULTURE CULTURE & HERITAGE Explore World Cultures at Museums & Historic Sites Minnesota is a unique cultural mosaic. Here’s a small sampling of historical attractions and heritage sites to fuel your cultural discoveries. NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURES Ojibwe and Dakota culture are central to life in Minnesota. Here are some of the best places you can learn about Tribal culture, artistry and history fi rsthand. WHY TREATIES MATTER EXHIBIT Learn more about the relationship between Dakota and Ojibwe Indian Nations with the U.S. government and what is now Minnesota in “Why Treaties Matter: Self Government in the Dakota and Ojibwe Nations,” on permanent display in the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul. The award-winning exhibit created in partnership with the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, conveys in a “meaningful and truthful way” the history of sovereignty between nations in what is now Minnesota. Visitors can take away the deep connection to place that the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples’ have and how treaties are living documents, recognizing Indian Tribes as sovereign nations. You can also preview the exhibit online at treatiesmatter.org/exhibit . MILLE LACS INDIAN MUSEUM This lakeshore museum north of Onamia tells the story of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, with dioramas depicting traditional activities like harvesting maple syrup, fi shing, gathering berries, drying wild rice, trapping and hunting. Watch indoor basket weaving and drumming demonstrations as well as Tribal dance videos; take weaving, traditional cooking and beading classes; and partake in programs on maple syruping, ricing and building canoes and tipis. Pipestone National Monument 40 | EXPLORE MINNESOTA .COM
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