BEMIDJI – A Native American statue that stood in downtown Bemidji for more than 61 years is on its way to a new home at the American Giants Museum along historic Route 66 in Illinois.
The statue has been stationed outside of Morell’s Chippewa Trading Post since 1963. Morell’s was then located at Second Street and Bemidji Avenue in the former Lake Shore Hotel. When that building was torn down in the early 1980s, Morell’s moved one block north to its current location, and the statue went there as well…