8h 51min, nov 1, 1862 y - Dakota Internment in Fort Snelling Begins
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All Dakota except those who actively helped the US government against the Dakota who fought; were imprisoned in a concentration camp on the river banks by fort snelling. Nearly 300 of them die that winter from sickness, hunger, and and attacks by civilians and soldiers.
*note the internment lasted from Nov. 1862 to Spring 1863*
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US-Dakota War
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