Visit to the Lower Sioux Community Pam Halverson, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer, at Lower Sioux Indian Community near Morton, Minnesota, invited us to come for a visit to the community. We attended a wonderful community presentation by the community’s children’s summer camp participants. It was very heart warming to hear these children speaking the Dakota language. We could tell how much they loved learning their language and how proud the community and the several fluent Dakota speakers present were of them. Even though it was quite rainy, we toured the Lower Sioux historic site as well, which was integral to the Dakota War of 1862. On the grounds of the site we visited the gardens that the children’s camp worked on throughout the summer. Scott is sitting on the watching platform at the garden pointing out a potential garden predator. The stone building is the warehouse where the Lower Sioux agent refused to distribute the goods inside to the Dakota while they were starving prior to the war. Part of the trip was also to gather materials for our own version of a Dakota drying rack to be installed in the Science Museum of Minnesota Big Back Yard. Check future blog entries to see the process of making and installing this on the grounds. Pidamaya Pam and the Lower Sioux Community!