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Pipestone National Monument

Pipestone, MN

For generations, Indigenous peoples have quarried the soft red stone here for ceremonial pipes and continue to do so under protected traditions. The site should be visited as a living sacred cultural landscape, not merely as an unusual geological quarry.

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Source: nps.gov/pipe/

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