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North Country
Wingerd, Mary Lethert; Delegard, Kirsten
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Description for North Country
Hardback. Num Pages: 448 pages, 141 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 191 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1633.
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, Minnesota—the 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 ... Read more
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, Minnesota—the 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816648689
SKU
V9780816648689
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About Wingerd, Mary Lethert; Delegard, Kirsten
Mary Lethert Wingerd is associate professor of history at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minnesota. She is the author of Claiming the City: Politics, Faith, and the Power of Place in St. Paul.
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