This place that is now called Minnesota is the ancestral home of the Dakota and Anishinaabe people, and other indigenous people, who have lived in and cared for this beautiful part of the world for millennia.
Tina Smith: “This place that is now called Minnesota is the ancestral home of the Dakota and Anishinaabe people, and other indigenous…”
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Senator Smith emphasizes the historical significance of Minnesota to indigenous peoples.
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