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ong before Europeans made their first forays into the ter - ritory now known as , Native American tribes L regularly crossed the at a fording place 14 miles north of the present city of Mankato, half a mile north of St. Peter. Early French explorers gave the site its present name, Traverse des (Crossing Place of the Sioux People). The solid river bottom through shallow water provided a nat - Signing of the Treaty of by Irvin D. Shope Treaty Site History Center in St. Peter ural gateway between the dense woodlands on the east and the prairies and bison on the west. As a well-travelled junction, it be - came a natural convergence point for commerce both for the Na - tive Americans and for European traders and trappers. By the 1820s, Louis Provencalle, a Frenchman working for John Jacob Astor’s American Fur Co., had set up a permanent fur- VISIT THE SITES OF trading post at Traverse des Sioux. Soon a settlement sprang up around the post. THE U.S.-DAKOTA CONFLICT Myrick’s Trading Post Site On July 23, 1851, one of the most significant Indian treaties

in our nation’s history was signed at Traverse des Sioux between

the U.S. government and the Wahpeton and Sisseton bands of

Begin your tour by taking Minnesota Highway 169 north from 7. REDWOOD FERRY Capt. John Marsh and interpreter Peter Quinn the Dakota. Two weeks later at Mendota, a treaty was signed with Mankato along the beautiful Minnesota River Valley. You will with 45 men on their way from Ft. Ridgely to the lower agency were 2 6 8 1 f the and Wahpekute bands. These treaties were in - reach the site of the signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux ambushed at Redwood Ferry on Aug. 18. Quinn and Marsh drowned o strumental in opening the American west to European settlement. at the intersection of Minnesota highways 169 and 22 a half mile and 23 other men were lost. A trail beginning at the stone

ome 24 million acres in Minnesota were ceded by the north of downtown St. Peter (14 miles north of Mankato). warehouse at Historical Site ends at the ferry

From St. Peter head west to along either Highway Dakota in exchange for reservation lands and for crossing site on the south side of the river. A large marker on the Stone Warehouse at the Lower Sioux Agency Birch Coulee Monument in Morton t c i l f n o 22 or the Old Fort Road (County Hwy. 5). We recommend that you north side of the river is on State Hwy. 19 north of Morton. C

S $3,075,000 to be paid over a 50-year period in annual continue from Fort Ridgely to the Lower Sioux Agency at Morton, annuities of goods and money — about 12 cents an acre for then on to the Upper Sioux Agency near Granite Falls and beyond 8. STATE HISTORICAL SITE The heaviest U.S.

some of the richest agricultural land in the country. to Camp Release near Montevideo. This military casualties of the war were suffered a t o k a on Sept. 2 at Birch Coulee, an area of deep D Before ratifying the Treaty, the U.S. Senate added amendments will be the farthest point of your tour.

ravines and rolling prairie still largely that weakened the Dakota position. Even with the changes, the Return along the river, taking in

Redwood Falls, Sleepy Eye and New TERMINOLOGY unchanged since 1862. About 170 of Col. terms of the treaty were not entirely honored by the U.S. Sioux means “snake” or “snakelike enemy,” a name Ulm. From New Ulm return to Mankato. Sibley’s army, sent out to bury the bodies - . S . given to the Dakota Nation by the , their ene - U The treaties left about 7,000 Dakota with two reservations, Follow our map for these sites: of settlers and soldiers killed in the

each 20 miles wide and about 70 miles long, with a 10 mile strip mies. Although Sioux is still in common usage, the uprising, were taken by surprise in a camp

1. THE TREATY SITE HISTORY CENTER built in name they give themselves, (or and

on each side of the Minnesota River. In 1858 the strip of land Dakota Lakota poorly selected for defense. Twenty-three 1994 by the Nicollet County Historical Nakota in western dialects) , meaning “friends” or “al - soldiers and two warriors were killed and Milford Monument e h along the north side of the river, nearly a million acres, was also T Society, interprets events leading up to the lies,” is preferred. “Dakota Sioux” is redundant. Na - many more were wounded on both sides. ceded to the U.S. The government established two administrative treaty signing and subsequent results. It tive American, Indian and American Indian may be This state historic site is one mile north of centers, the Upper and Lower Sioux agencies. includes exhibits, archives and a gift shop. used interchangeably. The Dakota Nation was made Morton off U.S. Hwy. 71 on Renville County Delayed and skipped payments drove the Dakota to increasing The History Center is landscaped with up of a number of subtribes. Those in Minnesota Hwy. 2. Lower Sioux Agency Interpretive Center desperation with each passing year. Through deceptive business native prairie grasses and wildflowers. were the Mdewakanton, Wahpeton, Sisseton, and In Treaty Site Park, foundation remains Wahpekute, known as a group as the Santee (or East - 9. BIRCH COULEE MONUMENT A 52’ granite practices, unscrupulous traders and government agents took much of the village of Traverse des Sioux may be ern) Dakota. West of Minnesota were the Yanktons shaft in memory of soldiers and citizens of what the Indians did have. Poverty, starvation and general suf - viewed. The Traverse des Sioux and Yanktonais, and beyond the Missouri River were who fought in battle, this monument fering led to unrest that in 1862 culminated in the U.S.-Dakota Commemorative Encampment, a the Tetons, divided into seven bands. surprisingly is not on the battlefield but Conflict, which launched a series of Indian wars on the northern rendezvous enactment of the 1850s, tucked away on a bluff overlooking the A publication of:

town of Morton. Take State Hwy. 19 to Y complete with trappers, traders, settlers T plains that did not end until the battle of Wounded Knee in 1890. E I

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Colonel Henry H. Sibley commanded the military. A well- town. Follow directional signs up L annually. A C I known fur trader, Sibley was the ’s first dele - Monument Drive to top of hill R O T S gate to Congress and the state’s first governor. 2. OLD TRAVERSE DES SIOUX CEMETERY Four miles northwest of St. Peter (gravel road). I H

Y Foundations at Fort Ridgely

on County Hwy. 20 is the final resting place of 12 missionaries to the T

With most of the able-bodied men away fighting the Civil War, N 10 . LOYAL INDIANS MONUMENT U Dakota. O C the Indians seized their opportunity and very nearly succeeded. Greater Mankato Growth, Inc. Next to the Birch Coulee H T R

3. NORSELAND A half mile east of the unincorporated community of A 1961 Premier Drive, Suite 100

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Norseland on Hwy. 22 is an Indian attack marker at the old Lutheran U (“Kill one, two, ten and ten times ten will come to kill you,” he honors six Dakota who saved L Mankato, MN 56001 Cemetery. The general store in Norseland, founded in 1858, is still in B said), Mdewakanton Chief was persuaded to head the the lives of whites during the Execution in Mankato 507.385.6640 l 800.697.0652 operation and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Conflict. It was erected in Dakota effort. greatermankato.com 1899. efore the Conflict (or Sioux Uprising, as it is often called) 4. THE OLD FORT ROAD County Hwy. 5 between Ft. Ridgely and St. Peter follows the old Red River Ox Cart Train trail of the 1840s and could be brought under control, at least 450 white settlers 11 . SCHWANDT MEMORIAL ’50s and is still known locally as the Fort Road. A memorial to the Schwandt family Birch Coulee Memorial and soldiers were killed and considerable property was de - Colonel B Henry H. Sibley slain during the uprising. South of stroyed in southern Minnesota. There were uncounted numbers 5. & STATE HISTORIC SITE Unprotected by a stockade and situated on an open prairie plateau, Ft. Ridgely was County Rd. 15, west of Co. 21. of Dakota casualties because of the Indian custom of removing 17 . CAMP RELEASE MEMORIAL MONUMENT Sept. 26, 1862, the Dakota 19 . MILFORD MONUMENT Eight miles west of New Ulm on not prepared to withstand attack. Fewer than 200 volunteer 12 . UPPER SIOUX AGENCY The Agency was established in 1854 near released 269 captives at this place about two miles west of County Rd. 29, this granite monument commemorates the Greater Mankato Convention & Visitors Bureau all dead and dying warriors from the battlefield. soldiers and civilian refugees defended the fort in two battles that the confluence of the Yellow Medicine and Minnesota Rivers as a Montevideo on U.S. Hwy. 212. A 51-foot shaft marks the site. An deaths of 52 men, women and children of Milford Township 1 Civic Center Plaza, Suite 200 A five-man military commission was appointed to try the turned the tide of the 1862 Conflict. The restored stone commissary center for instructing the Dakota in the farming methods of white estimated 1,500 Dakota men, women and children surrendered to killed by the Dakota on August 18, 1862. The figure of a woman Mankato, MN 56001 Dakota who had participated in the outbreak. The commission houses exhibits explaining Ft. settlers. The Agency never realized its mission. Most of the buildings Col. Sibley, who sent 396 men to the Lower Sioux Agency for trial. symbolizes Memory. 507.385.6660 l 800.657.4733 settled up to 40 cases in a single day. Some were heard in as little Ridgely’s history. Foundation were destroyed in the Conflict. One remaining structure has been Near Camp Release was Red Iron’s village. Red Iron, who opposed 20 . ARMY RECRUITMENT BAND WAGON MARKER Several wagons as five minutes. In all, the commission tried 392 prisoners, sen - remains of officers’ quarters, reconstructed to its pre-1862 condition and the foundations of the Conflict, encouraged other Dakota to protect white captives. visitgreatermankato.com accompanied by a brass band left New Ulm on August 18 to barracks, and other buildings other buildings are marked. Upper Sioux Agency State Park on State tenced 307 to death and gave 16 prison terms. Many historians . GRAVE OF CHIEF SLEEPY EYES (Ish-Tak-Ha-Ba) Chief Sleepy Eyes recruit volunteers for the Civil War. The procession was provide a vivid image of the Hwy. 67, nine miles south of Granite Falls. 18 today feel the trial was a travesty of justice. fort’s layout. A private was a signer of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux. A 50-foot granite ambushed at a bridge over a ravine five miles west of town. Partners: Authority for the final order of execution was passed to Pres - cemetery within the park 13 . PAJUTAZEE MISSION MARKER Established in 1852 by the Rev. T. S. obelisk honors him at his gravesite at First Avenue NE & Oak St., Four members of the party were killed. The marker is one mile ident Lincoln. He was pressured by politicians, military leaders, contains the graves of Williamson, a Presbyterian missionary, the mission and its school near the City of Sleepy Eye’s historic depot museum. One block east east of the Milford Monument on County Rd. 29. Blue Earth County Historical Society were destroyed in the Conflict. The missionaries escaped with the the press and public for immediate execution of the 303 still on many well-known pio- of the depot is a bronze eight-foot statue of the Chief by Dakota bechshistory.com l 507.345.5566 help of friendly Christian Indians. The mission marker is along Hwy. sculptor JoAnne Bird. It was dedicated July 4, 1994. the condemned list. Interceding on behalf of the Dakota was the neers. Open daily from Granite Falls Area Chamber of Commerce/ Memorial Day to Labor Day 67 about five miles southeast of Granite Falls. Episcopalian Bishop Henry Whipple, known to the Indians as Convention & Visitors Bureau closed Mondays, Tuesdays 14 . DONCASTER’S CEMETERY It is believed that at this point Little “Straight Tongue” for his fair dealings. The Rev. Stephen Riggs For more information, visit our county historical museums, the Minnesota OLD TRAVERSE DES SIOUX by Thomas Hughes. Herald Publishing Company, and Sundays. The park is seven Crow released his hostages and made his escape following the granitefallschamber.com l 320.564.4039 and Dr. John P. Williamson, Presbyterian missionaries to the miles south of Fairfax off State Historical Society Museum in St. Paul and your local library for these 1929. (Republished by the Nicollet County Historical Society in 1993.) . Many early settlers and Indians are buried in History of early exploration, trading posts, mission stations, treaties and Chief Little Crow Mahkato Mdewakaton Association Dakota, wrote letters to the press calling for a fair trial. Hwy. 4. the cemetery, on the north side of Co. Rd. 44. resources and many others: pioneer villages. mahkatowacipi.org Lincoln approved death sentences for only 39 of the 303 pris - 6. LOWER SIOUX AGENCY STATE HISTORIC SITE A single stone warehouse THE DAKOTA by Nancy Eubank. Roots, Vol. 12, No. 2, Winter 1984. The story of the SIOUX UPRISING OF 1862 by Kenneth Carley. Minnesota Historical Society 15 . HAZELWOOD MISSION MARKER The Rev. S. R. Riggs was pastor at Eastern Dakota (Santee) from early times until today. oners. One of the 39 was later reprieved. built in 1861, marks the site of the Agency, scene of the first the Hazelwood Mission, established in 1854 and destroyed in the Press, 1976. Details of the Dakota Conflict in words and pictures. New Ulm Convention & Visitors Bureau At 10 a.m. on December 26, 1862, in Mankato, the group of organized Indian attack in the War of 1862. A Minnesota Historical DAKOTA CONFLICT . KTCA 2, 1993. 60 min. A video documentary examining the THROUGH DAKOTA EYES: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of newulm.com l 507.233.4300 Conflict. The mission featured a church, school and sawmill. The events of August, 1862, including the historic relationship to the Traverse des 38 ascended a specially-erected timber gallows 24 feet square Society interpretive center nearby tells the story of the Dakota’s Indians were taught to live in houses they built and to farm. The 1862. Edited by Gary Clayton Anderson. Minnesota Historical Society Sioux Treaty of 1851. Narrated by Garrison Keillor and Floyd Red Crow Press, 1988. Redwood County Historical Society and 20 feet high. More than 1,400 soldiers of the 6th, 9th and struggle in a time of drastic change. A number of markers in the marker is on Hwy. 274, four miles south of Granite Falls, near Westerman. (Videocassette.) immediate vicinity denote locations of various trading posts. WHERE THE WATERS GATHER AND THE RIVERS MEET by Paul Durand. An atlas of redwoodcountyhistoricalsociety.org l 507.641.3329 10th Minnesota Volunteers and of the First Minnesota Mounted Doncaster’s Cemetery. DAKOTA EXILE. KTCA 2, 1996. 60 min. A documentary explaining the dispersal of Notable among them was the store of , most hated of the Eastern Dakota Sioux. Rangers were on hand to keep order among the crowds of hostile This site commemorates the Battle the Dakota after the execution in Mankato, boarding school experiences and Renville County Historical Society the traders. He refused the Indians credit remarking, “Let them eat 16 . WOOD LAKE STATE MONUMENT their gradual return to Minnesota. Narrated by Robbie Robertson. citizens. The Indians sang as they left their prison and continued grass!” His corpse was found with grass stuffed in its mouth. Thirteen of Wood Lake, Sept. 23, 1862, between the forces of Col. Sibley and renvillecountyhistory.com l 507.697.6147 Little Crow. It was the final battle of the U.S.-Dakota Conflict and led HISTORY OF THE SANTEE SIOUX: INDIAN POLICY ON TRIAL by Roy W. Meyer. singing until the end. It was the largest mass execution in Amer - people were killed in the initial attack on the agency, and seven University of Nebraska Press, rev. ed. 1993. A good general history of the Dakota to the freeing of captives at Camp Release. The granite structure is Sleepy Eye Chamber of Commerce ican history. more lost their lives in flight. On Redwood County Hwy. 2, two miles people by a Mankato State University professor. south of Morton. on Yellow Medicine Co. Rd. 18 West of State Hwy. 67. sleepyeyechamber.com l 507.794.4731 St. Peter Area Tourism & Visitors Bureau tourism.st-peter.mn.us l 507.934.3400 CHRONOLOGY Not on our map but relevant to the Conflict SITES OF THE U .S.-DAKOTA CONFLICT (refer to a Minnesota state map): OF THE ACTON MONUMENT Sunday, August 17, 1862, four young Dakota hunters, after arguing over hens’ eggs, on a dare decided to prove 1862 CONFLICT 1. THE TREATY SITE HISTORY CENTER 16. WOOD LAKE STATE MONUMENT 28. LEAVENWORTH RESCUE EXPEDITION their bravery. Following a supposedly friendly shooting match, five  AUG. 17  2. OLD TRAVERSE DES SIOUX CEMETERY 17. CAMP RELEASE MEMORIAL MARKER settlers were killed. The incident at Acton triggered the largest Indian war in U.S. history. A large stone marker is erected on the Five settlers at Acton in Meeker County killed 59 3. NORSELAND MONUMENT by four young Dakota hunters on a dare. MONTEVIDEO Acton site just to the west of State Hwy. 4, west of Litchfield and 212 4. THE OLD FORT ROAD 18. GRAVE OF CHIEF SLEEPY EYES MANKATO south of Grove City.  AUG. 18  5. FORT RIDGELY STATE PARK & 19. 29. RECONCILIATION PARK The conflict begins at the Lower Sioux Agency. 17 MILFORD MONUMENT CHIEF LITTLE CROW STATUE One block south of the junction of Ambush at Redwood Ferry. INTERPRETIVE CENTER 20. ARMY RECRUITMENT BAND WAGON 30. THE WINTER WARRIOR Hwys 7, 15 & 22 in Hutchinson on the north side of the Crow River  AUG. 19  Red Iron's Village 6. LOWER SIOUX AGENCY MARKER 31. MEMORIAL MARKER is a statue of Little Crow, who reluctantly led the Dakota in the First attack on New Ulm. 7. REDWOOD FERRY 32. MAHKATO WACIPI Conflict. He was killed near Belle Lake on July 3, 1863. The statue Sibley appointed to command volunteer troops. was donated by its sculptor, famed wildlife artist Les Kouba. 8. BIRCH COULEE BATTLEFIELD NEW ULM 33. BLUE EARTH COUNTY HERITAGE  AUG. 20  First attack on Ft. Ridgely. 9. BIRCH COULEE MONUMENT 21. BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM CENTER STOCKADE SITE MARKER A stockade was built in 12 days in 1862 from logs of houses in Hutchinson. The marker is in Library Square, AUG. 22 212 22. DEFENDERS MONUMENT   10. LOYAL INDIANS MONUMENT Hutchinson. Second, main attack on Ft. Ridgely. GRANITE FALLS 11. SCHWANDT MEMORIAL 23. PIONEER MEMORIAL FOREST CITY STOCKADE After the August 17 incident at Acton,  AUG. 23  12. UPPER SIOUX AGENCY 24. ROEBBECKE MILL PLAQUE Second attack on New Ulm 212 * 13 & 14 have little or no markers at this time, many settlers fled for refuge to Forest City, the closest village and 25 SEPT. 2 13. PAJUTAZEE MISSION MARKER WARAJU DISTILLERY but may have markers in the future. Because the county seat. A stockade was erected in one day on September   14. DONCASTER’S CEMETERY 26. FREDERICK W. KIESLING HAUS of insufficient parking, stopping could be 3 by the Home Guard and citizens. As part of the U.S. Bicentennial 14 67 12 15. HAZELWOOD MISSION MARKER 27. BRICK WALL SCULPTURE dangerous. Please use caution. the residents of Meeker County rebuilt the fort.  SEPT. 3  274 Skirmish at Acton and attack on Ft. Abercrombie 44 13 BATTLE OF LONG LAKE About 20 men under the command of a 15  SEPT. 4  Capt. Strout encountered Chief Little Crow with about 80 warriors Attacks on Forest City and Hutchinson on September 4. A running battle along the west side of Long Lake 18 16 resulted in the deaths of three soldiers.  SEPT. 6  Second attack on Ft. Abercrombie

Wood Lake  SEPT. 23  Battle of Wood Lake 2  SEPT. 26  11 Surrender of captives at Camp Release 1 71  SEPT. 28  Military commission appointed to try Indian participants 7 15  DEC. 26  6 Rice Creek Village 8 Thirty-eight Dakota executed by hanging at Mankato. Echo 1 Martial law declared. Liquor banned within 15 miles. Shakopee's Village 2 Belview Morton Snow lies on the ground. Temperature hovers at 15°F. Delhi 9 The gallows are surrounded by 1,400 infantry. FEDERAL HIGHWAY 's Village 10 5 67 4 Crowds of excited settlers arrive from all over the 273 Little Crow's Village countryside for the spectacle. STATE HIGHWAY 19 Franklin 19 Mounted Scout William Duly, who lost three 19 67 19 7 COUNTY HIGHWAY 51 Fairfax children in the conflict, severs the rope. REDWOOD 24 FALLS The bodies of the 38 are buried in a common grave, TOWNSHIP ROAD 6 5 then dug up on the same night by area doctors and taken away for anatomy studies. GRAVEL ROAD 19 4 71 67 13 2 11 FORT RIDGELY 29 005 11 5 22 Norseland 169 New 22 21 15 Sweden Saint 3 20 68 Morgan George 111 22 68 Klossner 2 29 20 29 21 15 19 29 15 4 1 5 Reconciliation Park 68 68 14 SAINT PETER The following are the 38 Dakota who sacrificed their lives for 68 NEW ULM Essig the , Mankato, Minnesota, December 26, 1862. 4 68 14 NEW ULM 15 99 21 . BROWN COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM Built in European lowlands 22 24 Courtland One Who Tipi Hdonica A Half Breed Hanke Dakota architectural style in 1910 as the New Ulm Post Office, this unique SLEEPY EYE18 21 23 Forbids His Wind Maker Tate Ka Ga building at the corner of Center Street and Broadway houses four 26 28 14 Nicollet House Eli Taylor (Dakota) Winter Warrior 25 27 The Tip Of He Inkpa floors of exhibits, many dealing with the Conflict. It is operated by Red Otter Ptan Duta The Horn the Brown County Historical Society and is on the National Register of Historic Places. His People Taoyate A Half Breed Hanke Dakota 68 169 MANKATO 14 One Who Hinhansa One Who Nape Sni 22 . DEFENDERS MONUMENT This 24-foot shaft in the median of Walks Clothed Koyagmani Does Not Flinch Center Street between State and Washington Streets honors local 29 . RECONCILIATION PARK Located at the northeast corner of Main NORTH In An Owl’s Tail Great Spirit Wakan Tanka defenders of New Ulm in the Dakota Conflict. It was designed by Street and Riverfront Drive, this memorial parkette is the historical MANKATO Iron Blower Maza Bodu One Who Tunkasitku sculptor Anton Gag and features battle scenes in relief. site of the execution of the 38 Mdewakanton Dakota warriors. Red Leaf Wahpe Duta Landscaped with natural prairie grasses and wildflowers, the MANKATO Stands Close To Ikiyena Najin 23 . PIONEER MEMORIAL This granite marker on the Brown County Meaning Sdodye Sni His Grandfather memorial is a place for meditation and reflection. The nine-foot tall 68 Courthouse lawn, State at Center Streets, is dedicated to the Unknown buffalo centerpiece, a tribute to the spirit of the Dakota people, was One Who Maka Akan Minnesota Territory’s founding pioneers and to those who lost their 29 30 31 Tinkling Walker Hda Ya Mani Stands On The Najin sculpted by Mankato artist Tom Miller. It is hewn from a single 67- lives in Brown County during the Conflict. Round Wind Tate Hmi Yanyan Earth ton block of local Kasota stone, one of the largest pieces of 32 33 On the wall of an insurance building, limestone ever quarried. The parkette was built through a unique Rattling Runner Hdaya Inyanka One Who Wakute Wiyaya 24 . ROEBBECKE MILL PLAQUE Walks Prepared Mani Center at State Streets, this marker commemorates a 70-foot collaboration of the Mdewakanton Dakota and Mankato The Singer Dowan Sa To Shoot windmill that became a defense outpost and was destroyed by fire communities in a spirit of reconciliation. It was dedicated on 32 . MAHKATO WACIPI (Powwow) Since 1972, the Wacipi (wah- Second Child Hepan To Grow Upon Aicage in the Conflict. September 19, 1997. (If A Son) CHEE-pee), a traditional Mdewakanton Dakota event, is held the Voice That Hotaninku 25 . All that remains of this short lived brewery 30 . THE WINTER WARRIOR This 13-foot Kasota stone statue, also third weekend in September in Mankato’s Land of Memories Park White Dog Sunka Ska Appears Coming WARAJU DISTILLERY is its brick chimney standing in West Park north of Center Street. It sculpted by Tom Miller, was a memorial gift in 1987, the 125th (Dakota Wokiksuye Makoce). The Wacipi memorializes the 38 One Who Tunka Siku The Parent Hawk Cetan Hunku Walks By Icahda Mani was built in 1860, burned in 1862 by the Dakota and never rebuilt. anniversary of the hanging, proclaimed the “Year of executed. Music, dance in full regalia, crafts and food highlight this Near The Wood Cankahda Reconciliation.” The late Dakota spiritual leader Amos Owen popular event. Dakota and other Native Americans from His Grandfather 26 . FREDERICK W. KIESLING HAUS Located at 320 N. Minnesota Street, To Make A Hda Hiu Dan (1917-1990) blessed the site of the statue. A 80-mile memorial relay throughout the United States and return to celebrate their Red Face Ite Duta this little house is one of the few structures still existing that Rattling Noise run from Ft. Snelling in St. Paul is held annually on December 26, heritage and share their culture with the public. The park with its survived the Conflict. A mini-park and fountain have been added. Broken To Pieces Kabdeca Suddenly stopping at the site before ending at Land of Memories Park. campground is at the confluence of the Blue Earth & Minnesota Third Child Hepi The Coming Oyate Aku 27 . BRICK WALL SCULPTURE A relief wall sculpture of unfired bricks Rivers off Highway 169 west of Mankato. 9

1 31 . MEMORIAL MARKER At the Riverfront Drive side of the Mankato (If A Son) People

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E Public Library is a Kasota stone & granite monument placed 33 . BLUE EARTH COUNTY HERITAGE CENTER Operated by the Blue One Who Mahpiya Akan L He Comes Howema-u L of settlers and the retreat of the Dakota. The artist is Gordon A June 2, 1980, commemorating the execution, which took place at G Earth County Historical Society, the Heritage Center preserves and Stands On A Najin For Me Dingman. Cloud Amos Crooks (Dakota) that site. Provided by the Minnesota and Blue Earth County displays Blue Earth County History in a modern, inviting facility. Little Thunder Wakinyan A Half Breed Hanke Dakota Cistina 28 . LEAVENWORTH RESCUE EXPEDITION MARKER A rescue party was Historical Societies, the marker provides a summary of the Conflict Its extensive archives are indispensable to researchers and ambushed at this site, now North 5th and Garden Streets, during the and features a single stone feather sculpted by local artist genealogists, and its gift shop welcomes shopper and browsers. The First Born Caske Wind Comes Tate Hdihoni (If A Son) Home Conflict. Rodney Furan. Located at 415 E. Cherry Street.