A weak breeze nudges the thick summer air that settles across southwestern Minnesota's prairie. The staccato calls of grassland birds mix with the gritty rasp of metal files and sandpaper as Mark and ...

A gas company wants to reopen a petroleum pipeline that was shut down two years ago by the federal government because it ran through the Pipestone National Monument, a site considered sacred by ...

PIPESTONE, Minn. Under the tall prairie grass outside this southwestern Minnesota town lies a precious seam of dark red pipestone that, for thousands of years, Native Americans have quarried and ...

The Associated Press Mark Pederson “Swift Horse,” a member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Nation and a fourth generation quarrier, saws through a piece of pipestone while demonstrating his craft at ...

Star Tribune reports the Public Utilities Commission have approved a gasoline pipeline near the Pipestone National Monument despite pushback from the tribal community. “On a 3-2 vote, the state Public ...

Minnesota utility regulators on Tuesday rescinded a permit for a gasoline pipeline near Pipestone National Monument, ordering “cultural and archeological” surveys on two potential routes after ...

PIPESTONE NATIONAL MONUMENT, Minn. — Like his uncles and grandfather before him, Travis Erickson takes great pride in the handmade pipes he creates using red stone he digs from the ground and carves ...

The Cheyenne River Youth Project is dedicated to providing Lakota youth with access to the resources and opportunities they need to build a future in which they thrive. A vital component of that ...

I have lived in Minnesota over 40 years and, sadly, had yet to explore Pipestone National Monument in western Minnesota. The recent 7-year anniversary of my marriage seemed reason enough to change ...

"The subject of this study is American Indian use of the Pipestone Quarry in southwest Minnesota from prehistory to the present day."--Page [1]. https://siris ...

PIPESTONE, Minn. — Under the tall prairie grass outside this southwestern Minnesota town lies a precious seam of dark red pipestone that, for thousands of years, Native Americans have quarried and ...