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This is the darkest chapter in Minnesota History. In Mankato, 38 Dakota were hanged in the largest mass execution in United States History. Just under Fort Snelling, over a thousand Dakota were held in a concentration camp where hundreds would die over the course of the winter- many more than were executed.
Minnesota adopted a policy of scalping ransoms paying white citizens to kill and scalp natives.
This is the end of the 1862 Dakota War.
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