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The
Native-American Garden began in the Spring of 2000 when two gardens
and wig-wams were made and a council ring was added. Jude Rakowski,
retired from the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore park, where she
developed a deep interest in Native-American culture while she
supervised the historic Chellberg Farm and the Bailly Homestead Fur
Trading Post, was stimulated to honor America’s first gardeners by
adding the Native-American garden to the ethnic gardens in
International Friendship Gardens. The garden was dedicated on July 1,
2001, by a member of the Great Lakes Alliance, a woman of Pottawatomie
ancestry. In Sept., 2004, members of the Callumic Band of the Great
Lakes Woodland Alliance built a family size wigwam and demonstrated early
Native-American lifestyles. A circular garden contains medicinal
plants, tobacco, and beans. A rectangular garden has corn, beans, and
squash – often called “ the Three Sisters.
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