Whipped, Coerced, Killed, Starved: Dakota Indians Remember Exile from anger angela six Watch Video
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Description: On May 4th, 1863, more than 1,300 Dakota Indians — mostly women and children, with some old men among them, were exiled from their homeland in Minnesota. were dumped out on a dry prairie in the middle of Dakota Territory, guarded by soldiers and battered by the summer heat.nn“The country…is totally unfit for any human habitation,” wrote a school superintendent who was appalled that the Indians were being forced there. “It is a desert, destitute of timber…It never can be made fit for
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