The Mendota Mdewakanton Dakota Community of Minnesota will lose its office and gathering space unless it can come up with the money to buy the property. The unrecognized tribe has been renting the house in Mendota but the owners want to tear it down and use it for a parking lot. "Our creation stories come from Mendota — this is our Garden of Eden — and we have nothing," tribal member Jim Anderson, who has moved into the house in protest, told The St. Paul Pioneer Press. Anderson hopes his protest draws attention to the tribe's struggle for federal recognition. We're just tired of being pushed out of our places," he told the paper. The tribe has been given until the end of April to vacate the house, which was built in 1880. Get the Story:
Mendota Mdewakanton activist moves to save tribal home (The St. Paul Pioneer Press 2/25)
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