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Photographer: Bud Lawrence Archives
Caption: Mahkato Education Day Project
Additional Description: The Mahkato Education Day takes place every year on the Friday of the Mdewakanton Mahkato Wacipi. Mankato Public School Third graders, teachers and parents are bused out to the pow wow grounds where they gather in small groups to listen and learn from Dakota and other tribal group members about their traditions, families and crafts. These third graders and their teachers are taking part in a Friendship Dance led by some of the Native American teachers and accompanied by the Maza Kute Singers and Drum Group from Santee Nebraska. The first Mahkato Education Day took place in September 1987, during the Year of Reconciliation in Minnesota between the Dakota and non-Dakota people. This education project has continued every year since its beginning in 1987.
Submitted: December 8, 2008, by Sheryl and Bruce Dowlin of Boise, Idaho.
Database Locator Identification Number: p46247
File Size: 0.052 Megabytes

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