Dakota-led nonprofit prepares for land restoration, cultural education at St. Anthony Falls.

Dakota-led nonprofit prepares for land restoration, cultural education at St. Anthony Falls.

Centuries before European-Americans engineered St. Anthony Falls along the Mississippi River to power flour and timber empires, Dakota people came there for ceremonies.  The falls, Owámniyomni in Dakota, stretched wide into what is now downtown Minneapolis and below them lay Spirit Island, a large slab of limestone covered with trees and visited by Dakota people from across the region. Located just north of the Dakota origin site of Bdote, where…