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The mural’s story gives each figure a role that a community member may play in the neighborhood.
A mural titled “The Procession of St. Paul” stretches over 500 feet in length across Mounds Boulevard in St. Paul’s east side community. It features vibrant imagery of animals marching south towards Wakaŋ Tipi, a 27-acre sacred site formerly known as Bruce Vento Nature Sanctuary.
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa citizen and Dakota descendant Maggie Lorenz is the executive director of Wakaŋ Tipi Awaŋyaŋkapi, a Dakota-led nonprofit that oversees Wakaŋ Tipi and Wic̣aḣapi, a Dakota burial site situated on a bluff at Mounds Park overlooking Wakaŋ Tipi and the Mississippi River.