MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis officers intend to switch two city-owned properties to the Pink Lake Band of Chippewa, which plans to construct an habit remedy heart on the web site.
Mayor Jacob Frey introduced the plan Thursday to promote the 2 parcels to the Pink Lake Band for $1 every, noting the Native American neighborhood is disproportionately affected by habit.
“We’re partnering immediately with a neighborhood that has been disproportionately harmed,” Frey stated. “This isn’t about offering some land, doing a deal after which strolling away from a really significant issue.”
KARE-TV experiences the proposal will probably be offered to the Metropolis Council subsequent week, and the council is predicted to take motion on Oct. 5.
The motion comes after the Minnesota Legislature voted earlier this 12 months to switch a state park to a Dakota tribe. The transfer to switch possession of the park in western Minnesota to the Higher Sioux Neighborhood was made partly to make amends for combating between settlers and a faction of Dakota those that resulted within the mass hanging of Dakota males.
In Minneapolis, Pink Lake leaders stated renovations have began on a constructing on one parcel, and plans name for an adjoining parcel to change into a backyard that may host sacred ceremonies. The deliberate opioid remedy heart can also embrace housing.
“We’re going to drop our disparities, smash our disparities, as soon as and for all,” Cheri Goodwin, govt director of the Pink Lake Nation, stated. “We’ll have meals. We’re going to have a kitchen. We’re going to have showers. We’re going to have washers and dryers. We’re going to have cultural companies to start out and these plots of land will probably be our tradition neighborhood backyard. … We might have no matter we dream right here.”