Tour of Dakota Places with Jim Rock

This photo was taken above Minnehaha Falls last week while we went on a tour of some important Dakota places around the Twin Cities area with Jim Rock (Dakota). Jim is a science teacher and grew up in the Twin Cities. He was gracious to share with us some of the important places to the Dakota people that exist within the Twin Cities area.

While our gardens are on the grounds of the Science Museum of Minnesota, they are also in a Dakota place, the Dakota homeland. It was important for us to think about how our gardening is not just about growing plants, but how our relationships as humans with plants is tied to the earth and the sky. Jim shared with us some of his knowledge about these important relationships to places from a Dakota perspective that truly enriched our own perspectives about our efforts with the Ethnobotany Project. Pidamaya Jim!