MOORHEAD — A newly installed piece of art honoring the history of Indigenous people in the Red River Valley is standing proudly in Moorhead’s developing downtown.

On Wednesday afternoon, Aug. 20, artist Duane Goodwin installed a bronze sculpture in a grove of trees in downtown Moorhead, next to the former U.S. Bank building and across from the future library and community center.

Goodwin’s sculpture depicts an Anishinaabe hunter-trapper, harkening back to the region’s fur trade history. The bronze man is dressed in furs and carries a tall musket. Goodwin said the sculpture does not yet have a name.

As a forklift lowered the sculpture into place Wednesday, the Bemidji-based sculptor talked about his work. The sculpture sits among four tall trees in the patch of grass.

“I like the trees,

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