In November 1862, 1,700 Dakota Women, Children and Elders were marched 150 miles in Minnesota from Lower Sioux Agency to Fort Snelling, which became a Concentration Camp where hundreds would die.
On the march that took a week many would die. Women, Children and Elders were attacked with rocks, clubs, and knives by the towns people. Many accounts of people throwing pots of boiling water on the Dakota as they marched through towns. A government employee said a woman in Henderson picked up a baby by the arm, threw it to the ground and murdered the baby.38 Dakota warriors were hung in Mankato, MN on December 26, 1862. It is the largest mass execution in U.S. history.
120 Dakota Warriors that were spared execution in Mankato, Minnesota were imprisoned in Davenport, Iowa.
The Dakota stayed in Fort Snelling till the spring of 1863 and then they were transported by boat, where a hundred or more died, and went to the Crow Creek Reservation where hundreds more died of disease. - Courtesy AIM Twin CitiesI’m embarrassed I never knew this about Fort Snelling, which is about 15 minutes from where I live.
Today, December 26, is a day of remembrance.