American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 151-169
Description
Article recounts the forced removal and executions of the Dakota Sioux following the “Sioux Uprising of 1862” and describes how those events are being commemorated through a memorial walk from the Lower Sioux Reservation on Minnesota to Fort Snelling in St. Paul, MN.
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 28, no. 1/2, Special Issue: Empowerment Through Literature, Winter-Spring, 2004, pp. 349-350
Description
Poem that deals with the 1862 removal of the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota from their lands, their forced march to a concentration camp at Fort Snelling, and the execution of 38 men by the United States government following the “Sioux Uprising of 1862.”