Native activists set up prayer camp outside Minneapolis ICE detention center

By: Alex Baumhardt

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: February 11, 2026

Words: 558

Last Updated: 1 week, 1 day ago

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Late in the afternoon on Monday, Native activists put up tipis and set a small fire at a sacred site along the Mississippi River to pray for the people held in a federal detention center a mile-and-a-half away.

The Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building looms in the background of the camp at Coldwater Spring, or Mni Owe Sni, at Fort Snelling along the Mississippi River.

Several descendants of Dakota tribes and Crow Creek Sioux tribal …

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