Boiling Springs Shakopee and Savage: A Sacred Dakota Spring in the Minnesota River Valley

There is a small pool of water in the lower Minnesota River valley that has astonished people for as long as anyone here has kept memory. A narrated walk through Boiling Springs, Shakopee, Minnesota. Real footage from the trail, with the deep history and natural history of the place: the geology that built it, the people whose homeland it is, and how it came to be protected. Filmed November 2023. CHAPTERS 0:00 Hook 0:54 Where We Are 1:47 To The Springs 2:32 The Circular Pool 3:15 Water That Breathes 4:06 How It Boils 4:54 The Boiling Sand 5:45 Kneeling By The Pool 6:30 Eagle Creek 7:21 Along The Water 8:06 A Rare Trout Stream 8:56 Clear And Cold 9:46 The Hidden Aquifer 10:36 The Broad Valley 11:21 Glacial River Warren 12:16 The Underfit River 13:07 Looking Across The Valley 13:55 The Flood-Carved Valley 14:48 Sands Of The Valley 15:39 A Quiet Stretch 16:24 Mni Sota Makoce 17:15 Maka Yusota 18:05 Standing At The Water 18:53 Unktehi 19:44 The Sacred Pipe 20:39 Walking On 21:28 Tinta Otonwe 22:22 Chief Shakpe 23:18 The Town'S Name 24:08 Treaty And Exile 25:11 The People Endure 26:06 Outro CREDITS Music: Earth Prelude by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), CC BY 4.0. Narration is AI generated; history verified against public sources. @fruworldexplorer