Blandin Foundation initiates Lower Sioux, Redwood area conversation

Friday, December 09, 2016

For decades the communities of the Redwood area have coexisted at best.
While the majority of those communities have consistently maintained a population of people of European descent, there is one place that is culturally distinct from the others.

The Lower Sioux Community and the Dakota people who live there have existed in the area as a cultural island in a sea of those predominantly European cultures. At times those cultures have clashed creating a widening gap of misunderstanding, apathy and racism. While there has been talk of trying to close the gap, not much action has taken place to do that.

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