Fort Snelling

Use of the Site

Currently, Fort Snelling primarily acts as an interpretive site for events that occurred in the 1820s. This includes its use as a military garrison for American soldiers and military personnel. There is no active interpretation of the events that occurred during the U,S.-Dakota War in the early 1860s. Furthermore, the site of the actual concentration camp where the Dakota people were held now acts as a parking lot for the Fort Snelling State Park Visitor Center. However, a memorial does now stand at the visitor center that acknowledges the use of the Fort Snelling property as a concentration camp where Dakota families were imprisoned, despite the fact the historic interpretation conducted by the Minnesota Historical Society at the fort itself fails to fully recognize this. 

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