Mississippi Dialogues Pastry Picnic

Join Anderson Center, Prairie Island Indian Community Tribal Historic Preservation Office, and Margaret Pearce for a casual, free event with coffee and pastries. We will be at Pavilion #2 in Colvill Park!

Learn about the Mississippi Dialogues Project. Listen to Bdewakantunwan stories about Haha Wakpa and contribute your own.

Come as you are, bring your love for the River!

This event will be held rain or shine.

About the Project

Mississippi Dialogues is a public art project elevating Indigenous knowledge and experience of the Mississippi River, in collaboration with the Nations whose homelands include the River. The destination is a series of large-format map panels to be installed in parks along the river, with an accompanying guidebook.

Collaborators

Dr. Margaret Pearce
Ho-Chunk Nation Cultural Resources Division (Bill Quackenbush & staff)
Prairie Island Indian Community THPO
(Franky Jackson, Noah White, Joey Taylor, & Meya Callstrom)
Jo Daviess Conservation Foundation

Funders

Creative Capital
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Anonymous Was a Woman Environmental Art Grant
NEH Cultural & Community Resilience Grant
Awarded & congressionally approved, January 2025
Terminated April 2025
Small Communities & Rural Placemaking Grant, Blandin Foundation
(awarded to Prairie Island Indian Community)
Minnesota State Arts Board (awarded to the Anderson Center)
Red Wing Shoe Foundation (awarded to Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance)
Guggenheim Foundation

This event is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a Minnesota State Arts Board grant, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.