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Enjoy Local, Organic Produce Responsibly Grown by the SMSC

Culture & History
Public Invited to Celebrate Dakota Culture Through Livestream Performance

Culture & History
SMSC to Host its First-Ever Language Bowl

Hoċokata Ti is set to host the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s first-ever Dak̇ota Iapi Akiciyapi (Dakota Language Bowl) on May 20 from 9am-5pm. The...
Health & Wellness
SMSC Spring Blood Drive Sees Record Turnout, Potentially Saving 234 Lives

The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) hosted a spring blood drive at Dakotah! Sport and Fitness in early April as part of an ongoing...
Culture & History
Annual Native Artist Spring Pop-Up Returns to Hoċokata Ti

It’s back! The annual Native Artist Spring Pop-Up Shop is returning to Hoċokata Ti for its third consecutive year. Stop by the cultural center’s...

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The Meadows at Mystic Lake opens for the season with new additions and improvements

April 26th, 2023
The Meadows at Mystic Lake, owned and operated by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC), is now open for the season with significant improvements at the award-winning golf course. The most unique feature is the course’s upgraded practice facility, which will open in phases through the summer as the...
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Prescribed burns planned for this spring

April 17th, 2023
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) is planning prescribed burns this spring in several locations on SMSC lands listed below. The SMSC conducts prescribed burns on SMSC lands and, upon request and through mutual aid agreements, in neighboring jurisdictions each spring and fall as an effective land management tool.
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Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community announces grant to Three Rivers Park District for Native American education programming

March 27th, 2023
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC), through its Understand Native Minnesota campaign, today announced it is providing an $80,000 grant to the Three Rivers Park District to develop new Native American education programming at Lowry Nature Center. Located in the 3,719-acre Carver Park Reserve in Victoria, Minnesota, Lowry Nature...
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Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community announces book giveaway for educators and libraries during Native American Heritage Month

November 1st, 2022
In honor of the beginning of Native American Heritage Month, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC), through its Understand Native Minnesota campaign, is sponsoring a large-scale book giveaway of “Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults” and a series of events in Minnesota this week with its author Monique Gray Smith.
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Prescribed burns planned for this Fall

October 19th, 2022
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) is planning prescribed burns this fall in several locations on SMSC lands. The SMSC conducts prescribed burns on SMSC lands and, upon request and through mutual aid agreements, in neighboring jurisdictions each spring and fall as an effective land management tool.
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Shakopee Mdewakanton tribe to remove wind turbine this summer

June 15th, 2022
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) is planning to remove the 262-foot-tall wind turbine on its reservation in Prior Lake this summer. The tribe first installed the 1.5-megawatt turbine in 2009 to provide a green energy source, but the turbine has since had significant reliability issues and is no...
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Prescribed burns planned for this spring

April 20th, 2022
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) is planning prescribed burns this spring in several locations on SMSC lands listed below.
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Ninety percent of Minnesotans support teaching more Native American content in K-12 schools

November 29th, 2021
As Native American Heritage Month concludes, newly released data reveals that Minnesotans overwhelmingly support increasing education about tribes and Indigenous people in the state’s public schools.
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Public invited to Shakopee Mdewakanton tribe's CommUNITY Day open house Nov. 13

November 2nd, 2021
Prior Lake, Minn. – Join the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) on Saturday, Nov. 13, for a special free event celebrating Dakota peoples’ rich culture and history. Hosted from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Hoċokata Ti in Shakopee, this open house will give attendees a chance to explore...
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Prescribed burns planned for this fall

October 27th, 2021
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) is planning prescribed burns this fall in several locations on SMSC lands listed below.
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Public Invited to Fire Prevention Open House at Mdewakanton Public Safety Oct. 6

October 4th, 2021
Mdewakanton Public Safety, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s (SMSC) professional fire and ambulance department, is hosting an open house on Wednesday, Oct. 6, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at 2525 Flandreau Trail NW in Prior Lake.
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Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community’s Minnesota State Fair exhibit now on display in Shakopee

September 30th, 2021
Free exhibit will be at the tribe’s cultural center now through Nov. 13
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