It’s just been the month when Native people are remembered. That’s nice. Now we want more, like we want to protect that Native heritage life-way and tell our stories to all. We also want to create a new history, one which is healing, restorative, and makes a better society and better world.

Native people are not in the past, we are in the present and we are in the future. Here’s a story we are making, it’s in Park Rapids, Minnesota and we can make this story together.

Giiwedinong, the new Treaty and Culture Museum will open this upcoming spring in downtown Park Rapids in the former Carnegie Library. In late October, we purchased the building, and hosted ceremonies at the former library, as our Native community organization, Akiing took possession of the building. Land Back that’s called, or Library Back in this case.