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Concentration camps at Fort Snelling
Photograph of tipis within a stockade at the Fort Snelling concentration camp in 1862.
Operation
Period14 November 1862 – May 1863[1]
LocationFort Snelling territory in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Prisoners
TotalNearly 1,700 Native Americans (including Dakota and Ho-Chunk)[2]
DeathsUncertain, estimated to be between 102 and 203 deaths, not including death marches from other prison camps[2]

The concentration camps at Fort Snelling were a series of temporary encampments to imprison Dakota, Ho-Chunk, and Métis prior to their exile from the Minnesota Territory following the Dakota War of 1862. The largest and longest-standing camp was on Pike Island. At their peak, the camps were thought to hold around 1,700 prisoners. Some scholars note these as the world's first concentration camps.[3]

Background

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Forced marches

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Notable prisoners

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Camps

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Life in the camps

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Additional camps

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Mankato, etc

After the war

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Memorials

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Notes

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References

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  1. ^ Monjeau-Marz 2006, p. 37
  2. ^ a b Forced marches & imprisonment, The US–Dakota War of 1862, Minnesota Historical Society
  3. ^ Finkelman, Paul (2013). "I Could not Afford to Hang Men for Votes - Lincoln the Lawyer, Humanitarian Concerns, and the Dakota Pardons". William Mitchell Law Review. 39 (2): 405–449. Retrieved April 2, 2024 – via HeinOnline.
  4. ^ Woolworth, Alan R. (July 2011). "Weston, David aka Seeing Stone (Tunkanwanyakapi)". Minnesota's Heritage: Back to the Sources. No. 4, "The Fool Soldiers". Minnesota's Heritage. p. 130. ISSN 2152-1549.
  5. ^ Woolworth, Alan R. (2010). "Mazahdewin, Winona (Abigail) Crawford, aka Iron Ring". Minnesota's Heritage: Back to the Sources. No. 1, "Rediscovering the Ancient Minnesota River Crossing Near St. Peter". Minnesota's Heritage. p. 128.
  6. ^ Anderson, Gary Clayton (2018). Gabriel Renville: From the Dakota War to the Creation of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Reservation, 1825-1892. Pierre: South Dakota Historical Society Press. ISBN 978-1-941813-06-5.
  7. ^ Monjeau-Marz 2006, p. 73

Citations

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  • Hyman, Colette A. (2012). Dakota women's work : creativity, culture, and exile. Minnesota Historical Society Press. ISBN 978-0-87351-850-5.
  • Westerman (2012). Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Society Press. ISBN 9780873518697.
  • Monjeau-Marz, Corinne L. (2006). The Dakota Indian Internment at Fort Snelling, 1862 – 1864. Saint Paul: Prairie Smoke Press. ISBN 0-9772718-2-X.

Further reading

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  • Wilson, Waziyatawin Angela, ed. (2006). In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors: The Dakota Commemorative Marches of the 21st Century. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Living Justice Press. ISBN 0-9721886-2-2.

Page building notes to delete later

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Sources to locate

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Bakeman

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One of the most prolific white publishers on the subject. Notable bias in interpretation and narration.