Land transfer, blackout plates
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Coming up on Morning Edition: Two communities historically at odds now may be ushering in a period of understanding. In what could become a blueprint for similar Minnesota communities, Lake City has returned ownership of Dakota burial mounds back to their modern-day relatives at Prairie Island Indian Community.
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| Small land transfer may be a big deal in tribal lands debate
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When Master Gardener Katie Himanga kick-started efforts to preserve native plants on a tract of wooded land in Lake City, she had no idea it would set her on a path of self-discovery.
“We are standing in about the middle of a 3-acre sacred Dakota burial site that includes 11 mounds, and about a dozen large diameter native trees that have been here for 100 or more years," Himanga said. “And lots and lots of vegetation that is non-native and invasive.”
But just as European settlers forced the Dakota out of their homeland, today invasive plants including European buckthorn, Tatarian honeysuckle and Amur maple have overwhelmed the native plants on the mounds. It was something Himanga was determined to change, and it led to a bigger project. | |
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| Minnesota blackout license plates are hot sell in first week
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Blackout license plates are now available, and state public safety leaders said Tuesday that they’re selling like hot cakes just a week after they came to market in Minnesota.
So far this year, the state division of vehicle services sold over 3,800 of the new specialty license plates that very simply cast white writing on a black backdrop.
In a typical year, the state sells about 70,000 critical habitat specialty plates — currently the most popular specialty plate. But the new blackout option seems to be on track to eclipse that. | |
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