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Location: South Dakota

  • Three children sit in a line on the grass with notebooks. The child in the center holds her notebook up to show a wildflower that she's stuck to the page.

    In Smalltown Sisseton, Art is a Connector

    July 20, 2022

    Sisseton, South Dakota is a unique place. This rural town of 2,400 is located on the Lake Traverse Reservation: about half the town is Native American, and the other half is mostly white. But it is not only the residential makeup of the Sisseton that makes it unique. It is the survival and persistence of art in the area, and new movements that are bridging a historically separated community.

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