Abstract In August of 1862, hundreds of Dakota warriors opened without warning a murderous rampage against settlers and soldiers in southern Minnesota. The vortex of the Dakota Uprising along the Minnesota River encompassed thousands of people in what was perhaps the greatest massacre of whites by Indians in American history ... Dakota Dawn focuses in great detail on the first week of the killing spree, a great paroxysm of destruction when the Dakota succeeded, albeit fleetingly, in driving out the...

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This book details the capture and ordeals of Fanny Kelly as she is captured by the Sioux Indians. It also gives us a vivid picture of a way of life that was soon to disappear.

Table of Contents From the conflict to the camp. Introduction ; The Dakota conflict : the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 -- The beginning of the exile. The Dakota collected, examined, expelled ; How the Dakota diaspora began -- First days at Fort Snelling. Arriving at the fort ; The stockade and shelter ; GUards and visitors ; Pictorial preservation -- Epidemic. Initial incidence of the coming epidemic ; Comments on Dakota mortality -- Surviving each day. The first census at the Fort Snelling Indian camp ;...