Last updated: September 3, 2024
"When you pray with this pipe, you pray for and with everything." -Black Elk
For over 3,000 years, Indigenous people have quarried the red stone at this site to make pipes used in prayer and ceremony - a tradition that continues to this day and makes this site sacred to many people.
Park Video
Pipestone: An Unbroken Legacy is a 22-minute movie about the cultural significance of the pipestone quarries and the sacred pipe.
Affiliated Tribal Nations
Learn more about the 23 Tribal Nations that engage in government-to-government consultation with the Monument.
Things To Do
Demonstrations, exhibits, special events, programs, self-guided tours, Jr. Ranger programs, and more
Quarrying Pipestone
How to get a permit and the process behind quarrying pipestone