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The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 treated American Indians as individuals instead of members of tribes and emphisized assimilation.

Erikson on the Awakening of his Pipe:

The Three Maidens are the one of the first things a visitor sees at the park, when driving in towards the visitor center. The Maidens sit at the edge of the park property on a manicured lawn.

Catlinite pipes for sale at the Pipestone Shrine Association gift shop, which shares the same building with the National Park Service's visitor interpretive center.

Travis Erikson, a fourth generation pipestone artist, works as a cultural interpreter for that National Park Service

An enormous sculpture of a joined Chanupa sits in front of the Keepers of The Sacred Tradition of Pipermakers. Some Dakota members find this sculputre of a joined pipe offensive