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An Artist Starts a Mine Tour Company
"The town of Tamarack, Minnesota, in Aitkin County is named after a kind of pine tree that turns yellow in the fall and loses its needles in the winter. They often grow in wet areas like bogs or swamps, which there are a lot of in Aitkin County. The whole area used to be a giant proglacial lake. Tamarack sits on Ojibwe land and is 1855 and 1854 treaty territory. Last weekend, artist and activist Shanai Matteson helped organize a tour of the area as part of a new project called Talon Mine Tour (...)
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