apr 1, 1863 - Dakota Banished from Minnesota
Spring of 1963
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The 264 sentenced Dakota men were brought to a compound in Davenport, Iowa, spending three years there before being exiled. The Dakota staying at Fort Snelling are then put on a steamboat to new reservations. Afterwards, a new law, the Dakota Expulsion Act, repealed the Dakota treaties, and made living in Minnesota for the Dakota illegal. The law has never been repealed since it 1863.
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Hannah Young– US-Dakota War
Unit Studies Project
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