MN HF1478

Urges the U.S. Secretary of Interior to list Coldwater Springs on the National Register of Historic Places and designate it as a traditional cultural property.

Coldwater Springs is a 10,000-year-old spring in the Mississippi Gorge that served as a Native American ceremonial site and cultural trading center for Dakota, Ojibwe, Sauk and Fox, and Iowa peoples.

The spring flows at 90,000 gallons per day and remains the last major natural freshwater spring in Hennepin County; traditionally used by Native peoples to collect sacred spring water for ceremonies.

The springs provided water to Fort Snelling from 1820 to 1900, including during Dred Scott's residence there before his famous freedom case.

Directs the Minnesota Secretary of State to transmit this resolution to the President, Congress, the U.S. Department of Interior, and Minnesota's congressional delegation.