The Lower Sioux in Minnesota need homes — so they are building them from hemp

Grist
By Judith MatloffNov 27, 2023, 4:30 am186 pts
For now, it’s only a gaping hole in the ground, 100-by-100 feet, surrounded by farm machinery and bales of hemp on a sandy patch of earth in the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation in southwestern Minnesota. But when construction is complete next April, the Lower Sioux — also known as part of the Mdewakanton…

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