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US Dakota War Commemoration Events - Setting the Scene: The History of the US Dakota War - Chronology of the 1862 War - US Dakota War Resources

U.S. Dakota War Resources

Written Work:

• Minnesota’s Heritage Journal

  Issue 3 of Minnesota’s Heritage – January 2011 

• Dakota Uprising Victims by Curtis Dahlin

• The Dakota War of 1862 by Kenneth Carley 

• Dakota Dawn: The Decisive First Week of the Sioux Uprising, August 17-24, 1862 by Gregory F. Michno 

• Claims from the Dakota Conflict: Supplying the Local Militia (Hardcover) by Mary Bakeman 

• The Peace Seekers: The Indian Christians and the Dakota Conflict (Hardcover) by Elden Lawrence 

• Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts Of The Minnesota Indian War Of 1862 by Gary C. Anderson 

• German immigration to the Minnesota river valley frontier, 1852-1865 : wir stammten aus Deutschland nach hausen Minnesota by Bryce O. Stenzel 

• Over The Earth I Come:

  The Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 by Duane Schultz The Great Sioux Uprising by C.M. Oehler 

• Memories of the Battle of New Ulm: Personal Accounts of the Sioux Uprising: L. A. Fritsche’s History of Brown County, Minnesota (1916) by Don Heinrich Tolzmann 

• The Great Sioux Uprising: Rebellion on the Plains August-September 1862 by Jerry Keenan

• The United States-Dakota War Trials:  A Study in Military Injustice

Videos:

• The Dakota Conflict  - www.mnvideovault.org

• Dakota Exile - www.mnvideovault.org
  

Websites:

• Minnesota Historical Society - HISTORY TOPICS: U.S.-Dakota War of 1862

• Minnesota Tragedy - The U.S. Dakota War of 1862 - usdakotawar.org

• Minnesota’s Heritage Journal - Minnesotaheritage.org

• Blue Earth County Historical Society: Discover the Dakota Culture & Heritage

• Famous American Trials - The Dakota Conflict Trials of 1862

• Minnesota State University EMuseum: The Dakota Conflict

*Information was provided in part by the Nicollet County Historical Society.