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Removal and internment of the Dakota, 1862 to 1863

About 1,600 Dakota women, children and older men were marched to Fort Snelling and held in a camp through the winter.

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Nov 1862 – May 1863

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  • Alexander Ramsey Nov 1862 declared the Sioux “must be exterminated or driven forever beyond the borders of the state” Scholarship & press 1

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  1. Nov 1862 – May 1863 Removal and internment of the Dakota, 1862 to 1863
  2. Nov 1862 Alexander Ramsey intervened in Removal and internment of the Dakota, 1862 to 1863
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  1. Timeline, U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, Minnesota Historical Society. Scholarship & press
    Minnesota Governor Alexander Ramsey declares that “the Sioux Indians of Minnesota must be exterminated or driven forever beyond the borders of the state.”
    About 1600 Dakota women, children and older men are marched from the Lower Sioux Agency to Fort Snelling. Along the route they are attacked by mobs of angry settlers.
    Nearly 300 Dakota prisoners die over the winter, victims of illness and of attacks by civilians and soldiers.
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