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Contact: Anne Dowd, 507-825-5464 x216
Pipestone National Monument to Show Film Series Native America and Host Speaker Megan Stroh Messerole
Pipestone, MN: Pipestone National Monument and the National Park Service are celebrating National American Indian Heritage Month in November with a showing of the 2018 Public Broadcasting System (PBS) film series Native America. This is a 4-part series, with Part 1 showing on Saturday, November 24, at 11:00AM at the Pipestone National Monument Visitor Center Auditorium. Parts 2-4 will show on consecutive Saturdays, December 1, 8, and 15, at the same location and time. In the same location at 12:00PM on Saturday, November 24, immediately following the documentary, Ms. Megan Stroh Messerole will give a one hour presentation, with a half hour for questions afterward, titled “Traveling Pipestone Tablets and the Stories They Tell.” Megan Stroh Messerole, M.S., works as the archeologist for the Sanford Museum and Planetarium in Cherokee, Iowa.
Directions are available through this link: https://www.nps.gov/pipe/planyourvisit/directions.htm
About the film series: Native America challenges everything we thought we knew about the Americas before and since contact with Europe. It travels through 15,000 years to showcase massive cities, unique systems of science, art, and writing, and 100 million people connected by social networks and spiritual beliefs spanning two continents. The series reveals some of the most advanced cultures in human history and the Native American people who created them and whose legacy continues, unbroken, to this day.
This series explores this extraordinary world through cutting edge science and traditional indigenous knowledge. Native America rediscovers a past whose splendor and sophistication has for too long remained untold. It reveals a unifying belief that inspires these diverse cultures - people are deeply connected to earth, sky, water, and all living things. This belief is rooted in millennia of living on this land and continues to resonate in the lives of Native Americans to this day.
For additional information, contact Pipestone National Monument at 507-825-5464, or visit the Monument’s Facebook page or web site at https://www.facebook.com/PipestoneNPS or https://www.nps.gov/pipe/index.htm.
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Last updated: November 9, 2018