Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community

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This embroidered 2.5 inch X 2 inch patch, representing the tribal shield of The Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community, is available exclusively from the MMDC by sending a check or money order of $8.00 plus $1.00 for shipping and handling, all of which is tax deductible, to:
Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community at PO Box 50835
Mendota MN 55150.
Please allow two weeks for shipping.
Below is a explanation of the tribal shield.

Six Sacred Directions:
Blue Half Circle - Sky
Green Half Circle - Earth
Red represents the north - where we came from
Yellow represents the east - where the sun is born
White represents the south - journey to the spirit world
Black represents the west - where the sun dies and life-giving rain comes
Upper Left Quadrant - The confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. Ancestral homeland of Mendota.
Upper Right Quadrant - Pipe signifies prayer.
Lower Left Quadrant - Survival as a People
Lower Right Quadrant - Father Sun - Mother Earth
Seven Feathers - Oceti Sakowin - Seven sacred fires of Dakota or Sioux Nation.

American Indian OIC

Little Earth of United Tribes

LeMoine LaPoint, Healthy Nations Director, Minneapolis American Indian Center (MAIC)

From: Minnesota Indian Affairs [mailto:MINN-IND@LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf
Of Zimmerman, Travis
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 12:10 PM
To: MINN-IND@LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: FW: List-serv question

Please post on the list serv.  Thanks!

Travis Zimmerman
Site Manager-Mille Lacs Indian Museum
Indian Affairs Liaison
Minnesota Historical Society
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History Lounge: Sacred Ground/Common Ground

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Tues., Oct. 21, 2008
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7pm.
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Minnesota History Center, 345 Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul
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Free and open to the public
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Call 651/259-3419 for information. No reservations required.
Wakan Tipi Cave (aka Carver's Cave) on St. Paul's East Side has been
sacred to the Dakota Indians from time immemorial. After the U.S.
government pushed the Dakota protectors of Wakan Tipi onto reservations,
the railroads lopped off half the cave to make way for tracks and the
surrounding area became a dump.  Meanwhile, the neighborhood around
Wakan Tipi was facing its own challenges as it fought to recover from
decades of economic and physical decline. Then a few years ago, a
diverse group of people found a way for the East Side and Wakan Tipi to
help each other.

Join Jim Rock, lifelong East Sider and Dakota advisor to the project,
and Carol Carey, Executive Director of Historic St. Paul, as they
explore Wakan Tipi's ancient meanings and modern story, and reveal how
this sacred ground created common ground for Dakota Indians and East
Siders seeking to reclaim a piece of their community.

Danielle M. Dart
Public Programs Associate
Minnesota Historical Society
345 Kellogg Blvd. W.
St. Paul, MN  55116
651/259-3419