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Chief Arvol Looking Horse and others lead a pipe ceremony at Pilot Knob on October 3, 2009

A picture of the Buckham Memorial Library

Tepees set up around Three Maidens at The Pipestone National Monument

Angkor Wat (Capital Temple) the front side of the main complex in the late afternoon. The temple complex is the largest religious monument in the world at 420 acres (0.65 square miles).

Erikson on the Awakening of his Pipe:

The Three Maidens are the one of the first things a visitor sees at the park, when driving in towards the visitor center. The Maidens sit at the edge of the park property on a manicured lawn.

Catlinite pipes for sale at the Pipestone Shrine Association gift shop, which shares the same building with the National Park Service's visitor interpretive center.

Travis Erikson, a fourth generation pipestone artist, works as a cultural interpreter for that National Park Service

An enormous sculpture of a joined Chanupa sits in front of the Keepers of The Sacred Tradition of Pipermakers. Some Dakota members find this sculputre of a joined pipe offensive

This is the Chapel of Our Lady of Lourdes in Assisi Heights viewed from the balcony seating area.