Learning from Place: Bdote is an immersive experience that brings participants to sites of great significance to Dakota people in the Twin Cities. Participants will learn from Dakota community members through stories and histories that have often been left out of our state’s history.

ASCE has partnered with WTS and APA as well as the MN Humanities Center to provide this unique experience to our members this coming fall as a way to help foster stronger Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives.

Schedule

8:15 am         Check in at Indian Mounds Regional Park (10 Mounds Blvd, St. Paul, MN 55106). Meet at the intersection of Mounds Blvd. and Earl St. There is plenty of street parking. There will be minimal walking.

8:30 am        Program begins.

10:00 am Drive to Fort Snelling State Park/Thomas C. Savage Visitor Center (101 Snelling Lake Road St. Paul, MN 55111). Meet by the picnic tables next to the parking lot.
*The state park requires each vehicle to have either an annual or day permit. Please take care of this online in advance.

10:30 am   Program continues at Fort Snelling State Park. We will be walking approximately 2/3 of a mile roundtrip, along a packed dirt trail.

12:15 pm     Break for lunch on your own and travel to Oheyawahe/Pilot Knob Preservation Site (2044 Pilot Knob Rd, Mendota Heights, MN 55120). There is a small parking lot at the trailhead. You may also park along Pilot Knob Road or Acacia Blvd.  

1:30 pm        Program continues at Oheyawahe/Pilot Knob Preservation Site. We will be walking approximately half a mile roundtrip, along a packed gravel trail.

2:30 pm        Program ends.

Please make sure to dress for the weather and bring comfortable walking shoes and water! Due to the limited nature of this workshop, there are only 13 spots reserved for ASCE members. This event will cost $60 per person, but will be made free to those who are members of the indigenous community. Please register by Friday, September 8th.