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posted on 3:39 PM, August 17, 2019
From MPR...
Last week, a group of Minneapolis public school teachers stood atop a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River. Victor Makes Room For Them, who is Lakota and often goes by Rocky, stood with them.
They were gathered at Indian Mounds Regional Park in St. Paul, a Native American burial site. Many of the educators said they hadn’t known the place existed.
Rocky wanted to change that. He was leading a tour of sites around the Twin Cities that are significant to Dakota people, who are native to the area. It was part of a three-day best-practices workshop for Minneapolis Public Schools employees, led by the Division of Indian Work.
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