Melissa Olson
A prayer camp set up by Indigenous people in early February will remain up through Wednesday evening after youth leaders and a spiritual leader came to an agreement Sunday evening at Mni Owe Sni, a Dakota sacred site.
Arvol Looking Horse, a Lakota spiritual leader, told a group of Indigenous youth leaders, their families and allies that he believes the camp broke “spiritual law” by situating the camp at a location understood and documented as a Dakota burial site.
But the camp’s leaders argue they are doing nothing wrong by coming together at the sacred site to heal from what they said is the violence brought to the state by federal immigration officials and the ongoing housing and drug crisis in Minneapolis…