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Environmental, nuclear worries force Prairie Island tribe to seek new lands

Two giant concrete silos sit behind a placid river and fall trees.
The Prairie Island Nuclear Generating plant looms in the distance beyond a lock and dam on the Mississippi River near Red Wing, Minn., on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. Long-standing concerns about flooding and the nearby nuclear plant have led Prairie Island to seek property inland from the tribe’s ancestral Mississippi River home.
Evan Frost | MPR News