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Harvey Derby polishes a pipestone pipe

Quarriers pull out a piece of pipestone.

Dramatic Final Scene from Pipestone Hiawatha Pageant, where hero Hiawatha departs towards the setting sun in an Enchanted Canoe, leaving his people in the hands of the "Black Robe" missionaries.

Map of Pipestone, MN

Pipestone quarry, at the town of Pipestone, Minnesota.

Pipestone quarry, at the town of Pipestone, Minnesota in 1894. In the center with white gloves Big Thunder (John Wakerman), a Santee Sioux

Different Native American people carve sacred pipes from the pipestone quarries in Pipestone, MN. These pipes are used for spiritual as well as commercial use by different people.

George Catlin's painting of the pipestone quarries in Minnesota in 1836

The American Indian Religious Freedom Act guarantees Native American people the right to, "believe, express, and exercise the
traditional religions of the American Indian, Eskimo, Aleut, and Native
Hawaiians, including but not limited to access to…