Fort Snelling

Historical Incarceration and Educational Rhetoric - Bridging the gap between history, perspective, and the Carceral Fort Snelling

Fort Snelling has had many histories. One history most often forgotten is its role as a site of mass incarceration – a history that imprisoned over 1,700 innocent Dakota lives within the same piece of land that brought their ancestors life. To understand how this history is taught – or neglected – today, we must first understand the facts. Through the site’s current interpretation and the rhetoric of materials used in official school texts, we know that the educational picture is not complete. Follow ‘The History’ in order to experience the detailed history of war and incarceration, or ‘The Site’ in order to go directly to the analysis of educational rhetoric used in classrooms today. The youth of our state must be fully educated on the breadth of our discriminatory carceral history, and this site aims to begin to paint that picture.

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