Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota rice poetry and prose

poetry and prose

painter Lisa Fifield and writer Lise Erdrich honor their Native American tradition in their own unique ways

Alternating between these two records

When Harness was fifteen years old

"perhaps at the farthest reaches of the galaxy

Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota rice poetry and proseMuch of the focus on the Dakota people in Minnesota rests on the tragic events of the 1862 U. S.Dakota War and the resulting exile that sent the majority of the Dakota to prisons and reservations beyond the states boundaries. But the true depth of the devastation of removal cannot be understood without a closer examination of the history of the Dakota people and their deep cultural connection to the land that is Minnesota. Drawing on oral history