$8.6M Wakan Tipi Center planned at edge of downtown St. Paul. Ground will be broken in September near the entrance to the 27-acre Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary at the edge of downtown St. Paul ...

An Indigenous drumming circle on Monday, May 20, 2024 introduces the groundbreaking for the future Wakan Tipi Center, a $14.3 million nature and cultural interpretative center to be located ...

Barring that, the new Wakan Tipi Center promises to be a refreshing new chapter in a 2,000-year-old story. Given how long the history of this place was marginalized, erased, and literally ...

A patchwork quilt of funding has finally come together for the long-awaited Wakan Tipi Center, a cultural and interpretative center planned at the entrance of St. Paul’s Bruce Vento Nature ...

Wakan Tipi visitor center would explain history of holy site for the Dakota. By James Walsh. June 2, 2018 at 2:47AM. Native grasses along with a small sprinkling of barren trees covered the ...

Construction on the Wakan Tipi Center is expected to begin in the spring after several years of consultation with Dakota tribes in Minnesota. It will be located at the entrance of the sanctuary.

This month, the Lower Phalen Creek Project will begin construction on a 9,000 square foot interpretive center near the entrance of the Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary to welcome people back to Wakan ...

In 2018, the organization received $3 million from the Minnesota Legislature to construct the Wakan Tipi Center, a gathering space to educate visitors about the history of the surrounding area ...

To the sound of drumming, singing and performances by traditional dancers, St. Paul Indigenous leaders and community members marked Indigenous Peoples Day on Monday by dedicating the land that ...

Lower Phalen Creek Project is hoping to complete the new Wakan Tipi Center in early 2024. The cave itself will remain closed to the public. “Decisions regarding how and when the cave may be opened ...

The new name means “those who care for Wakaŋ Tipi” in Dakota, referencing a cave currently known as Carver’s Cave but ancestrally called Wakan Tipi. Lower Phalen Creek Project is now Wakaŋ ...

Think of it as another teaching moment. Organizers of a St. Paul medallion hunt hid the treasure in a space considered sacred by Indigenous people.