Other classes we will be having over the summer and fall.
Classes will be posted as soon as we finalize the dates.
- Making fry bread and maple butter.
- Learning about native plants and making native foods.
- Making quilts, that class may be 2 days?
- Jewelry Class, making earrings, bracelets, or necklace. We need a teachers
- Learning Dakota songs & prayers with Joseph.
- Open storing telling with elders only. If you know of an elder who wants to tell a story about themselves and especially their great, great, great, grandparents before and after the 1863 uprising. Hard times they have gone through. If they want to tell their story we will be honored to listen. To talk about the past and present time to help heal your heart.
- Class on how to make prayer ties.
- Learn about the Mendota people and our history in Mendota MN. Who are the Mendota people. We go back thousands of years. The Mendota People came back home and started our community again in 1994 here in Mendota. This is our homeland of our ancestors and aways will be our homeland. NO ONE will make us leave again. We did not have anyone to fight for us for this land when other tribes got land. This time we will fight for our land.
- We may have Lisa B come to talk about AIM.
- May have a regalia class?
- We will have other classes too, just check on our website mendotadakota.com
- If there are classes you would like us to have, just email us at mendotadakota@gmail.com ask for Sharon Lennartson Tribal Chair. My spirit name is Wakiya Waste Win (Good Thunder Woman)