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Water Links Dakota Sacred Sites at Bdote

Season 2

On Dakota homeland, sacred sites connected by water make up the Bdote sacred landscape.

The Twin Cities area—and all of southern Minnesota—is Dakota homeland. A series of sites along the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers form a sacred landscape the Dakota call Bdote. The Bdote sacred landscape connects contemporary Dakota people to Grandmother Earth. These sacred places are sites of both genesis and genocide in the past, and erasure in the present. Produced with Carleton College.

AIR DATE 6/15/21

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People from all walks of life find and create sacred places in Minnesota. A sacred landscape called Bdote connects contemporary Dakota people. Fleeing genocide, Cambodians build America’s largest Buddhist temple to find healing. Immigrants from Mexico find safety and identity through home altars. A Hindu temple in an old church is a place of welcome for all. Produced with Carleton College.

Project Advisors:

Shana Sippy

Michael McNally

Community Advisors:

Watt Munisotaram

Chanda Sour

Sithoeun Chem

Hindu Milan Mandir

Satya Balroop

Dakota Sacred Places

Franky Jackson

Iyekiapiwin Darlene St. Clair