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Dakota War
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Dakota leaders travel to Washington DC
A council of Dakota leaders travel to Washington DC to discuss the conditions of their treaties. There they learn that their treaty had been changed, and that they would be forced to give up half their land in Minnesota. -
Civil War Begins
South fires on Fort Sumter, beginning Civil War -
Andrew Myrick eats his words.
Trader Andrew Myrick insulted many Dakota when he told them that they could "eat grass" if they are hungry. In the second day of the Dakota War, he was killed by Dakota warriors, who stuffed his mouth full of grass. -
Hanging in Mankato
38 Dakota men were excecuted in Mankato, MN in the largets mass execution in US history.
