Spirit of Peace Indian Museum
Dakota Cultural
& Educational Center
Dakota Owned
& Operated
The next pages
show some of the items that are on display in the Museum
First are some
of the old photographs:
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Postcards
of Winnewissa Falls, the Three Maidens and the Indian
School are from the early 1900's
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Charles
Bennett, one of the founders of Pipestone, stands with
the Petroglyph slabs that he had removed from the Three
Maidens area in the 1880's.
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An
early photograph of the 'Three Maidens' area, before
the commercial mining started next to it.
This
is where the Petroglyphs were located.
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This
is George Catlins painting of the 'Three Maidens'. These
are granite boulders that were deposited in Pipestone
when the glacier's melted.
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One
of the larger quarries in 2000. Only one man works in
this pit, and he has to do a lot of hard work to get
through all of the quartzite that you can see.
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This
is again a large quarry, known as the Cooperative quarry.
It was worked by many people who travelled together
from their reservation to work. These were probably
Yankton quarriers and the date is early 1900's.
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These
are the tools that are used in the quarrying process. They have
not changed, if you look in both of the above photos you will
see the same tools.
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Moses
Crow, who was the first Dakota person to reside in Pipestone.
1927.
He
married the young woman in the next photo who is standing
on the left.
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Ancestors
of the Derby family. The lady seated, their great, great,
grandmother, was in Pipestone with her family, when she
was 12, quarrying in 1862 when the Dakota Conflict started.
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The
same group in a more formal pose.
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Pipes
PAGES
OF ITEMS IN THE MUSEUM:
Photographs and other historic items.
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