GRANITE FALLS, Minn. (AP) — Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the U.S. failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans more than a century ago. Now, their descendants are getting the land back. Minnesota is taking the rare step of transferring the Upper Sioux Agency State Park back to the Upper Sioux Community in southwestern Minnesota. In recent years, some tribes in the U.S., Canada and Australia have had their rights to ancestral lands restored with the growth of the Land Back movement seeking to return lands to Indigenous people.
Tribe getting piece of Minnesota back more than a century after ancestors died there
Sep 3, 2023 | 9:43 AM
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