North Country The Making of Minnesota

Name: North Country The Making of Minnesota
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ISBN: 9780816648689

ISBN-10: 0816648689

ISBN-13: 9780816648689

Edition: 2010

Authors: Mary Lethert Wingerd, Mary Lethert Wingerd

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In 1862, four years after Minnesota was ratified as the thirty-second state in the Union, simmering tensions between indigenous Dakota and white settlers culminated in the violent, six-week-long U.S.Dakota War. Hundreds of lives were lost on both sides, and the war ended with the execution of thirty-eight Dakotas on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, Minnesotathe largest mass execution in American history. The following April, after suffering a long internment at Fort Snelling, the Dakota and Winnebago peoples were forcefully removed to South Dakota, precipitating the near destruction of the area's native communities while simultaneously laying the foundation for what we know and recognize…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 6/7/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.25" long x 1.80" tall
Weight: 3.916