Fort Snelling

Use of the Site

In addition to the Minnesota Historical Society avoiding any mention of injustices towards the Dakota at the site, there is an interpretive divide between Historic Fort Snelling and Fort Snelling State Park, which holds the physical site of the concentration camp where over 1,600 innocent Dakota were held over the winter of 1862 and 1863. This site now acts as a parking lot for the Fort Snelling State Park Visitor Center.



In many ways, Fort Snelling State Park does much more to remember the Dakota than the Minnesota Historical Society does at Historic Fort Snelling. Near the visitor center stands a memorial which acknowledges the use of the site as a concentration camp, and lists the names and numbers of those imprisoned. Although there is no official programming on the history of the site, the adjacent visitor center does have ample information available for visitors.

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