Name: Nettle cordage and Plant walk
Start: 2025-09-19T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-19T18:30:00-05:00
Location: Watergate Marina

Nettle cordage workshop & Dakóta plant walk! We will enjoy storytelling, history, Indigenous foods, and our connection to the water.
About this Event

Greetings! Thank you for your interest in participating in our Nettle cordage workshop & plant walk! We will enjoy storytelling, history, Indigenous foods, and our connection to the water.

Note from Fern Renville-

All are welcome to join us in learning from our teacher and elder HASBE, the stinging nettle plant who generously shares food, medicine, and fiber for weaving and net-making. This hands-on workshop will introduce you to nettle cordage-making and the ancestral weaving traditions of Dakota peoples interrupted by forced removal from the state of Minnesota. No experience necessary!

Please remember to dress comfortably and for the weather. We will be enjoying the outdoors. Don't forget to wear your walking shoes!

Please drive past the "marine" parking lot down into the "park" parking lot there you will see a pavilion .

We will plan to meet at the pavillion.

Hosted by

Blue Hummingbird Woman

Tanaǧidaŋ To Wiŋ is a Dakota and Anishnaabe mother. She grew up in Imnížaska (Saint Paul), Minnesota. She studied Dakóta language and culture at Metro State University. She is the author of Takoza: Walks With the Blue Moon Girl, Animals of Khéya Wíta, Animals of Nimaamaa-Aki, and Awáŋkičhiyaka pi. Tara is inspired by the loving hearts of her sons: she is a creator, plant medicine enthusiast, and has always loved to write. She believes in the healing power of storytelling.

This program is supported in part by Capitol Region Watershed District.

Mission and About - CRWD’s mission: To protect, manage and improve the water resources of Capitol Region Watershed District and Mississippi River.

Capitol Region Watershed District (CRWD) is a local unit of government dedicated to protecting, managing and improving the water resources within the 40 square-mile District, which includes parts of Saint Paul, Roseville, Maplewood, Lauderdale and Falcon Heights. CRWD works across geographic and political boundaries to protect the health of the District’s lakes, wetlands, streams and the Mississippi River through monitoring, regulation, planning and action.