Seven Mile Creek County Park
“Left to ourselves, I think we would have continued to try to live according to the values of balance and reciprocity . . .
… so that we could fulfill the cultural and spiritual ideal of mitakuye owas'in, all my relations. I think we would have attempted to ensure that our way of life remained sustainable. Frankly, I think Minnesota would be a much more healthy and beautiful place if Whites had not violently interfered in our relationship with the land and its beings. But, that is according to a Dakota value system. If, on the other hand, you value monetary wealth, greed, profit, domination over the land, and an unbridled hunger for new technology, you will think differently about what has transpired over the last 150 years. Is one value system inherently better than the other?”
~Dr. Waziyatawin Angela Wilson, “What Does Justice Look Like? The Struggle for Liberation in Dakota Homeland”
TERRITORY ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
This place is on the traditional territory of the Wahpekute, Wahpeton, and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ nations. (Crowdsourced info compiled by Native-Land.ca. Please visit the nations’ websites to learn more.)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Wikipedia entry
A regional man of mystery enjoying parks, trails, and other stuff around the great state of Minnesota!
