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Monthly Archives: January 2013
Stories of the Dakota Peace Coalition
Tuesday night at the Minnesota Historical Society’s History Center in St. Paul, I could not have had a more engaged audience for my first presentation of one of my 2013 talks,”Stories of the Dakota Peace Coalition.” Thank you to all … Continue reading
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Little Crow Slept Here
Saturday July 21, 1860, Alfred J. Hill took this photo of the Hazlewood (Hazelwood) Republic on the Upper Sioux Reservation in Minnesota. According to a letter written a few days later by one of the men in the foreground, the … Continue reading
To Be or Not To Be
guest post by Lois Glewwe Five days before their scheduled execution, 39 imprisoned, condemned Dakota men in Mankato, Minnesota, were asked to make a decision – to be baptized or not, and whether to be baptized as a Roman Catholic … Continue reading
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30 + 12 = 42, not 39
I’m working on my Peace Colaition presentation at MHS January 29, but can’t escape the stories of the 39 Dakota men condemned to death in 1862. A new friend I met in Redwood falls this summer, Molly Schweinfurter, just mailed … Continue reading
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