Bloomington, Minnesota sits on Mni Sota Makoce, the ancestral lands of the Dakota people. Just north of Bloomington and easily accessed via the Metro Transit blue line light rail is Minnehaha Falls, one of the Twin Cities’ most popular destinations for visitors and a notable spot for Native American history in Minnesota. The word Minnehaha means waterfall in Dakota, and the location was made famous by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Song of Hiawatha”. Longfellow’s fictional tragic love st