Please join us in honoring the creek on Indigenous Peoples’ Day!
Monday, October 13, 2025 | 10-11 AM
West Medicine Lake Park
1920 West Medicine Lake Drive,
Plymouth, MN 55441
Learn more and register here:
https://hennepinhistory.org/event/third-annual-%C8%9Fa%C8%9Fa-wakpadan-water-blessing/
We’ll celebrate and honor Ȟaȟa Wakpadaŋ (Bassett Creek) through song, land acknowledgment, and updates about the Ȟaȟá Wakpádaŋ / Bassett Creek Oral History Project. Indigenous participants will share ways to care for the lands and waters of Mni Sóta Makoce (Minnesota).
Registration is optional.
Thank you to the funders including the Bassett Creek Watershed Management Commission, Mississippi Watershed Management Organization, and Valley Community Presbyterian Church.
Thank you also to community partners including the City of Golden Valley DEI Commission and Environmental Commission, City of Minnetonka Historical Society, City of Plymouth, Golden Valley Historical Society, Plymouth History Center, Robbinsdale Historical Society, and The Loppet Foundation.
Whóphida thaŋka (thank you!) to cultural advisors Bradley Blackhawk (Ho-Chunk), Darlene St. Clair (Dakota), Jim Rock (Dakota), and Roxanne Gould (Anishinaabe).
Photo by Sean Gosiewski
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