Native Americans Sacred Pipe Carving

A wheelbarrow and ladder sit near a pipestone quarry on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, at the Pipestone National Monument in Pipestone, Minn. Only Native Americans enrolled in a federally recognized tribe are permitted to quarry the unique variety of soft pipestone called catlinite. Today there are dozens issued to quarriers whose lineage includes generations of carvers.

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