KTTC Covers Mural Wopida Event
Honoring Dakota Project mural(kttc)
By Charles Kelley and Megan Zemple
Published: Oct. 9, 2023 at 6:15 PM CDT
RED WING, Minn. (KTTC) – More than 200 people attended a mural dedicated to the Dakota people in Red Wing Monday, as part of an Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration.
The mural is part of the Honoring the Dakota Project, meant to bridge the communities of Prairie Island and Red Wing. Goodhue County, the city of Red Wing and Red Wing Arts are just some of the partners in the project. The mural took a year to plan through a series of meetings.
The large mural is on the side of a city-owned building located at West 3rd and Bluff Streets, right off the Eisenhower Bridge of Valor, near the He Mni Can (“Barn Bluff”). It features Chief Red Wing, bison, bald eagles, a sturgeon and a turtle.
Colorado-based Native artists, Jeremy Fields and Collins Provost Fields of Thrive Unltd, were chosen by Prairie Island Indian Community to create a mural that depicts the project’s theme of “Mitakuye Owasin” (“We are all related”).
