While trade between tribal nations goes back millennia, the legalization of cannabis in Minnesota is ushering in a new wave of intertribal trade.
Nixon Malcolm manages White Earth Nation’s grow facility. He and his team are set up outside Prairie Island’s dispensary, sharing information about Waabigwan Mashkiki, White Earth Nation’s cannabis company.
Waabigwan Mashkiki means “flower medicine” in the Ojibwe language. Waabigwan — the shorthand name staff uses — is the prime supplier of cannabis flower to the new dispensary.
“At Island Peži, they went through two cycles, where anything I had cased and ready for sale on the shelf, they purchased our whole inventory,” said Malcolm.
The grand opening is the culmination of weeks of hard work for Malcolm and his staff. They stayed up nights to fill Prairie Island’s order and made the five-and-a-half-hour drive south five times.
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