The Lower Sioux In Minnesota Need Homes — So They’re Building Them From Hemp

 The Lower Sioux In Minnesota Need Homes — So They’re Building Them From Hemp

The Lower Sioux tribe is investing in hemp as a source of housing and revenue to hopefully sustain the tribe in the future. (Photo by Aaron Nesheim / Grist)

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For now, its 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 on the Lower Sioux Indian Reservation in southwestern Minnesot…