Under the tall prairie grass outside this southwestern Minnesota town lies a precious seam of dark red pipestone that, for thousands of years, Native Americans have quarried and carved into pipes ...

PIPESTONE, Minn. — The Pipestone Lamb and Wool Program is nearly 50 years old and using new tools to shepherd producers into an increasingly profitable enterprise. Instructors are based at Minnesota ...

Minnesota has two equally beautiful, but distinctly different National Monuments, located at complete opposite ends of the state. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Grand Portage National Monument, ...

Piles of broken quartzite surround the quarries where the sacred pipestone, used to carve pipes for indigenous ritual and ceremonies, is chiseled and broken free by those enrolled in a federally ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PIPESTONE, Minn. (AP) — Under the tall ...