Mille Lacs Indian Museum and Trading Post
Address:
43411 Oodena Dr., Onamia MN 56359
Admission: $7 adults, $6 seniors and college students, $5 children ages 6-17; free for children age 5 and under and MHS members.
Phone: 320-532-3632
Email:
millelacs@mnhs.org
Website: http://www.mnhs.org/millelacs
The site offers exhibits dedicated to telling the story of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. Trace their journey to settle in Northern Minnesota, learn about their fate during a period of treaties made and broken, and follow their story up to the present. Videos, computer interactives, listening stations and objects reveal information about the Band's life today, from how dance traditions are carried on to members' interests in music to sovereignty issues.
The museum's spacious crafts room serves as a demonstration area for traditional cooking, birch-bark basketry and beadwork. Adjacent to the museum, a restored trading post retains its 1930s appearance.
