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Fort SnellingMain MenuDakota History 1862-1863: The US-Dakota War, and the Innocent ImprisonedEducation + InterpretationInteractive MapCamp CensusBibliographyAll Sources used for the creation of this site.Genevieve Romain2780a176af9b081b887fccf1a2c9d8f66cc710a8Dustin Sjong7d8b720b8272f145f79d27a161206c480703e582Matthew D. Frater61f08a66ba71d0a84fb2368cda74dc64d2daa275Sarah Forschlerf112b97c780ede601526729005e344121cd2da0cAaron J. Person7682fe26670fdd393b11095bed5c9c2f5813574f
The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862
1media/Man.jpgmedia/only camp photo.jpg2015-12-04T10:32:42-08:00Dustin Sjong7d8b720b8272f145f79d27a161206c480703e582718929image_header2015-12-15T14:31:36-08:00Matthew D. Frater61f08a66ba71d0a84fb2368cda74dc64d2daa275The U.S.-Dakota War began with the 1851 Treaties of Mendota and Traverse des Sioux, in which the Dakota were to cede a great portion of present-day Minnesota to the United States in exchange for goods and monetary payment. However, the Dakota People did not receive much of the promised payment for their land; either because it wasn’t sent, or because it was stolen by means of corruption.
Dakota land after these treaties was limited to a narrow reservation along the Minnesota River that by the 1860s was already being reduced in size, depleted of natural resources, and broken of natural systems. Annuities often were not paid because the federal government was concentrated on the Civil War. This caused the Dakota to suffer from starvation, and ultimately unlivable conditions. The tipping point came when a government-endorsed trader named Andrew Myrick infamously remarked that the Dakota could “eat grass or their own dung” if they were hungry. Shortly after this remark, a small group of Dakota men attacked a family of white settlers, and the Dakota in response held an emergency war council.
As a result of this war council, Chief Little Crow reluctantly agreed that he would lead the Dakota into war, despite the fact that he knew it could not be won. Over the course of approximately one month, several hundred white settlers, several dozen United States soldiers, and an estimated 150 Dakota were killed. The war came to an end with the hanging of thirty-eight Dakota men in the town of Mankato on December 26, 1862, after 264 other Dakota men had been pardoned by President Abraham Lincoln and marched to a prison camp in Iowa.
1,700 Dakota who surrendered and were pardoned of any and all crimes, were forcibly marched over one-hundred miles to a winter concentration camp below Fort Snelling. These 1,700 Dakota, 95% of which were women and children, were placed into a concentration camp immediately adjacent to the Bdote.
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