Exhibit Short Films

^{The Visitor Center's cultural exhibit contains three short films that expand on the significance of the prairie, quarrying, and the sacred pipe as well as how they're intricately connected. They are viewable in their entirety below:}

 

Duration:

3 minutes, 41 seconds

Randilynn Boucher Giago (Dine/Isanti Dakota) explains how the prairie has provided medicines to people for thousands of years and how the plants work with the sacred pipe. Much like the quarrying of pipestone, the harvesting and use of this incredible resource by Indigenous people provides both sustenance and a connection to those who have come to Pipestone for centuries.

 

Duration:

4 minutes, 16 seconds

Quarrier and carver Tim Blue allows visitors to not only see the process of getting to the pipestone layer and making pipes, but also explains the meaning of these traditions to him and his family.

 

Duration:

6 minutes, 25 seconds

In these two back-to-back short films, the concepts and understandings of the sacred pipe are shared. Video one features Lydia Conito (Lower Sioux Community), Leo Binda (Ojibway - Garden River First Nation), Hope TwoHearts (Lower Sioux Community), Joe Bendickson (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate), Randilynn Boucher Giago (Dine/Dakota - Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate). Video two features Arvol Looking Horse, the Lakota spiritual leader and 19th keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe and Bundle.