A Park Rapids Treaty Rights and Anishinaabe Culture Museum will open this summer
Activist Winona LaDuke is leading a team to open a treaty rights and Anishinaabe culture museum this summer in a former Carnegie Library building. The library was most recently occupied by Enbridge, the Canadian pipeline and energy corporation, whose Line 3 pipeline project LaDuke opposed.
“We deserved a place where we could be able to find information about Northern Minnesota and Native people and have it from our voice, instead of third person, past tense, because treaty rights are not just historic, they're present,” LaDuke says. “We’re trying to figure out how to best bring the story of this land and the story of Anishinaabe history forward.”
