Line 3 Opponents Plan to turn old Enbridge Office Building into Indigenous Museum in Park Rapids

PARK RAPIDS (KDLM) – The group that tried unsuccessfully to block the Line 3 replacement pipeline through northern Minnesota will take ownership of the downtown Park Rapids building where Enbridge once had offices.

That group plans to turn it into an Indigenous Treaty Rights and Culture Museum. Winona LaDuke with Honor the Earth says it’s the very building, the old Carnegie Library, that they stood outside for a year with signs reading ‘Water is Life’, “It’s better for the North to have a museum and a cultural center than a pipeline company.”

LaDuke says the museum will be a monument to Indigenous history, culture, treaty and civil rights, and likely include at some point a powerful exhibit about the Line 3 struggle, “Over this winter we are going to… put on the walls a museum, and she will be born in the spring.”

LaDuke calls it “probably the ultimate ironic Land Back purchase in North America, with more than a little poetic justice.” Honor the Earth’s plans for the building include instructive programming, special guests and exhibits, and ongoing cultural and educational initiatives.