After a one-year hiatus, Dakota horse riders returned to Mankato, Minnesota, to honor the memory of the December 26, 1862, mass execution of Native Americans. Ordered by President Abraham Lincoln, ...

This Day in History: Dec. 26, 1862 — Most commonly revered as the United States President who freed the slaves, Abraham Lincoln is known for something different in Indian Country. On this day 160 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Colette Routel, assistant professor, William Mitchell College of Law, talked about the causes of the Dakota War of 1862 including treaty negotiations ...

The Dakota–U.S. War of 1862: A Symposium of Remembrance examines the lasting consequences of the violent and divisive war that led to the exile of the Dakota people from their homeland. The program ...

For most of the nation, the Dakota War is a sentence in the history books, if that: six weeks in the remote frontier in the midst of the Civil War. While the precise ...

The Dakota–U.S. War of 1862: A Symposium of Remembrance examines the lasting consequences of the violent and divisive war that led to the exile of the Dakota people from their homeland. The program ...

A documentary about a ride of healing, a place of massacre, and a battlefield that never existed It tells the story of one of the punitive expeditions undertaken by the US Army following the Dakota ...

MANKATO, Minn. (AP) – Hundreds of people gathered Wednesday for the unveiling of a memorial to 38 Dakota men who were hanged 150 years ago to the day in what is the largest mass execution in U.S.

Recently I read a novel that made several references to the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. This conflict between the Dakota people and the white settlers consumed southwestern Minnesota for six weeks in ...

SIOUX CENTER, Iowa -- James C. Schaap, master storyteller and English professor at Dordt College, is scheduled to speak about the significance of the Little Crow's War in a presentation titled "The ...