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

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.

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.

Quarriers pull out a piece of pipestone.

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

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

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