Under the tall prairie grass outside this southwestern Minnesota town lies a precious seam of dark red pipestone that, for thousands of years, Native Americans have quarried and carved into pipes ...
The Associated Press Mark Pederson “Swift Horse,” a member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Nation and a fourth generation quarrier, saws through a piece of pipestone while demonstrating his craft at ...
A weak breeze nudges the thick summer air that settles across southwestern Minnesota's prairie. The staccato calls of grassland birds mix with the gritty rasp of metal files and sandpaper as Mark and ...
Mark Pederson "Swift Horse," saws through a piece of pipestone while demonstrating his craft at the Pipestone National Monument Museum on May 3 in Pipestone, Minn.