Legislation approved this year calls for transferring state-owned Upper Sioux Agency State Park lands to the Upper Sioux Community and establishing new outdoor recreation opportunities in the region.
The Minnesota Legislature OK'd $6.5 million to transfer Upper Sioux Agency State Park land to the Upper Sioux Community, but no timeline is set for the transfer. The park is still open to the public.
Sacred, ancestral lands could be returned to the Upper Sioux Community under legislation heard Wednesday in a committee. The transfer would close the Upper Sioux Agency State Park near Granite Falls.
Christopher Allen Lee, 53, pleaded guilty to a felony charge of reckless discharge of a firearm involving a domestic incident. He was relieved of duties as chief for the Upper Sioux Police Department following his arrest.
The documentary "Bring Her Home" helps bring awareness to the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Leya Hale hosted a screening of her documentary at Pioneer Public TV in Granite Falls in early May.
Teresa Peterson and Walter "Super" LaBatte of the Upper Sioux Community offer a treasure of Dakota stories passed down from the generations, as well as their own, in their book, "Voices From Pejuhutazizi: Dakota Stories and Storytellers."
