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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…

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.

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:

Harvey Derby polishes a pipestone pipe

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

Map of Pipestone, MN

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.

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